Pomme de Terre Lake is Ozark hills lying doubled on flat, clear water, seen from a site above the shore with the fishing docks already busy below at first light. From there the days drift around the shoreline, up the Lindley Creek arm past Nemo and back down to Outlet Park, where the Pomme de Terre River runs on below the dam face. Hermitage and Wheatland are the small towns at the lake's edge, and the lake itself is the whole trip.
The rhythm that works here is a parked week: one campground, the motorhome backed onto a site near the shore, and days spent between the dock and the picnic table without breaking camp. Summer is hot and humid, so the site that matters is one with electric hookups to keep the air running through the afternoon, and it's worth locking that site before you book the rig.
Pomme de Terre State Park and the Corps campgrounds
Pomme de Terre State Park comes in two units that camp very differently. Hermitage is flat and grassy, the easier ground for a big rig, while Pittsburg climbs into hilly woods with tighter loops and more shade. The park has 50-amp electric sites, Pittsburg keeps some of its sites open all year, and Hermitage runs March through November. If it's two of you and Pittsburg's wooded loops are the pull, a smaller rig handles those turns better, and Missouri's smaller rentals cover that trip.
The Corps of Engineers runs the other campgrounds around the lake. Nemo, Lightfoot, Wheatland and Outlet have electric-and-water sites, with dump stations in the Corps parks, which covers a week with the air on and a mid-stay tank run without packing up for long.
For sewer at the site, Fred's RV Park in Wheatland has full hookups in every slip at up to 50 amps and a bathhouse with laundry, and Sunshine Road RV Park in Hermitage runs full-hookup sites year-round. Either makes an easy first night before you move to the water, and so do the electric-only sites at Damsite by the dam.
Lucas Oil Speedway race nights in Wheatland
On race nights the lights over Lucas Oil Speedway's dirt track show from the RV park fence line, and the crowd walks to the pit gate or rolls over in golf carts with the engines already loud. Sidetrack RV Park puts you about 600 feet from the main gate, with full hookups at 30 and 50 amps on city water and sewer, so the rig is a short walk back between races. Wheatland Park, the Corps campground on the lake, is the quieter place to sleep the same weekend.
Racing runs spring through fall, the same months families fill the lake, so race weekends and lake weeks chase the same rigs and the same Wheatland sites. Hold the site as soon as the date is confirmed on the speedway's own schedule, then match a motorhome to it.
Stockton Lake and the Ruark Bluff coves
Bluffs and quiet coves line Stockton Lake, and around Ruark Bluff the Sac River arms stay shaded and still. Ruark Bluff East and West are where families head first, and the Corps calls them among the most popular campgrounds on the lake. Both have 30-amp sites, while Cedar Ridge and Orleans Trail step up to 50 amps.
The Corps parks run their full season from mid-April through September, so a fall week leans on Stockton State Park. Its East and West campgrounds stay open all year with 50-amp sites, and East keeps a dump station plus an RV fill hydrant nearby once the water is off elsewhere.
Truman Lake, the big reservoir next door, is covered on the Kansas City lake page. Lake of the Ozarks and Bennett Spring are the state's better-known Ozark weeks, and the Missouri RV page has the rig details for both.