Pony Express Lake, East Camp, Missouri | Established Campground

October 23rd, 2023 by mackenzielochmoon

Seems like your experience largely depends on the other occupants. It's a nice place and would be great if nobody else was around.
Parking is right next to each other in a single row of the gravel lot. Seems like a few people living here, and quite a bit of trash piling up. One camp was letting their three dogs run free all over the park dragging trash around, while another camp was screaming at each other and pulling in and out of the parking lot spraying gravel everywhere. Ended up leaving early in the morning to avoid all the chaos.

Pretty area and a very nice fishing dock with shade and a well equipped fish cleaning station. Lots of fish jumping in the lake and plenty of wildlife around.

June 19th, 2023 by cjhoch

See lay-out on Google maps. Accurate. Small primitive camping area .Beautiful sunset over water. Shared parking lot with rolling mowed lawn sloped to lake. first come, first served for shared picnic tables. Nobody here on a Monday night. Loving it.

April 22nd, 2023 by roundformal04

Beautiful, peaceful, very quiet. Heard some coyotes at night and lots of birds in the morning. Bathroom was stocked and as clean as you’d expect. All the hunters we saw were on the west side of the conservation area, though there is a fishing area on the other side of the east campground loop. Some day use picnic areas as well, but in April our only neighbors were fellow campers. I would absolutely camp here again. Good T-Mobile and Verizon service.

May 10th, 2022 by Audrius

Very nice free place for fishig and camping. Swiming prohibited.

April 27th, 2022 by AKVanLyf

As described. Needed a place to lay our heads for the night on a cross country trip. We’ll kept and enjoyable.

August 20th, 2021 by erikbarnhill

Accurate descriptions. Also free, so can’t complain. Was only 1 of 2 vehicles here, everyone else was tent camping closer to the lake.
Not many choices in these here parts, so this suited us just fine for the night.

May 29th, 2018 by expeditionportal.com

It's a big gravel parking lot so they aren't really spaces here. There are sign posts marked one through ten that designate an area to park. Fortunately there's only one other camper here tonight. If there were ten, it would be horrible.

November 7th, 2017 by lyz.iversen

Free Camping in State Park with 10 sites on a Lake. Open all year Beautiful location.