Round Spring
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- Round Spring Pavilion Parking Area ClosedPark Closure naming this campground · open
- A night
- $20–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 6463 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
In the rolling, forested landscape of Round Spring, two of America's most beautiful spring-fed rivers combine to make up the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. As the first national park area to protect a wild river system, visitors have plenty of scenic water activities to enjoy as well as hiking, horseback riding and wildlife viewing. Keep reading
Recreation
The crystal clear Current River flows past the campground, offering excellent canoeing, tubing, swimming and fishing. Over 130 miles (209 km) of waterways exist within the park. Canoe and kayak rentals and outfitters can be found nearby. Several miles of hiking and horseback riding trails crisscross the region, including the Alley Overlook Trail, Chubb Hollow Trail, Ozark Trail, Cave Spring Trail and Big Springs Trail.
Facilities
Open year-round, this campground has flush toilets and shower facilities available April 15 through October 15. Picnic tables, fire rings, and grills are provided. Roads and parking spurs are paved. Ranger-led campfire programs are offered in the campground amphitheater during the summer months.
Natural Features
The Ozark National Scenic Riverways is known for its caves, springs, sinkholes and losing streams, and features over 300 identified Caves/Kart Systems within its boundaries. The caves range in size from a rock overhang to almost seven miles of identified passages. Eight caves, including an open sinkhole, have been designated as outstanding natural features. The Ozark forest is mostly White oak and Shortleaf pine, Missouri's only native pine species. Along the rivers, Sycamore, Cottonwood, River birch and maples are common. Redbud and Dogwood are also abundant, putting on a spectacular show during most spring months. Contact Info This location is unstaffed. To speak with our main office for general information, please call: (573) 323-4236.
Nearby Attractions
Scenic Round Spring Cave is nearby, with ranger-guided tours offered daily during summer months. Historic and picturesque Alley Mill and Alley Spring are also nearby. The mill is open daily in the summer and rangers offer tours upon request.
What the agency tells you
If you arrive and another party is occupying your reserved campsite, please call Arrowhead Dispatch at 1-844-460-3604 for a Law Enforcement officer to be dispersed to your location for removal of the unauthorized party.
No sewer hookups available; a dump station is located at the campground entrance.
Water and 50-amp electric hookups are now available; bring converter if necessary.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Round Spring Group Sites 4-8 accommodate 15-45 people and unlimited tents, but a MAXIMUM limit of 2 RV's is in place for these sites.
Two Tents or 1 RV and 1 Tent per site only on Standard Family sites.
Modern restrooms are open April 15-Oct.15; outside these months visitors will be provided with an alternative, which may be a short distance form their campsite.
No glass bottled beverages allowed in tubes or non-motorized vessels.
All reservations and reservation changes MUST be completed through your Recreation.gov user profile or by calling 1+877-444-6777.
For more information about the campground, please call (573) 323-4236 between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. weekdays or e-mail OZAR_Campground_Operations@nps.gov
Parking for vehicles and camping trailers and RV's are on pavement only.
Free standing Hammocks only. NO hammocks are allowed to be tied to trees.
Water systems shut off Oct. 15-April 14. (Water off means most bathrooms and faucets in campgrounds will be closed and facilities winterized, including Picnic Pavilions. The exception are the heated shower houses/flush restrooms at Round Spring, Big Spring and Alley Spring campgrounds.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 64 · 10 tent-only, 8 group
- Hookups
- 6 electric, 6 water
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 51 of 64
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round · Vault Toilets - year round
- Showers
- Seasonal Showers
- “Facilities Open year-round, this campground has flush toilets and shower facilities available April 15 through October 15.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 2nd darkest of 118 in MO
- Bortle 3
109 of 124 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:14 UTC
recreation.gov lists 63 of the 64 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
OpenBooked
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One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$30 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:14 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
65 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 60 mapped sitesAll 65 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 61 of the 65 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 62 of the 65 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Electric | E1 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 48 ft | 713 ft | 157 ft | $30 | |
| Electric | E2 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 40 ft | 684 ft | 120 ft | $30 | |
| Electric | E3 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 40 ft | 663 ft | 94 ft | $30 | |
| Electric | E4 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 42 ft | 633 ft | 80 ft | $30 | |
| Electric | E5 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 42 ft | 610 ft | 95 ft | $30 | |
| Electric | E6 | standard electric | 36 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 47 ft | 596 ft | 119 ft | $30 | |
| Group Sites 1-3 | G01 | group tent only area nonelectric | 103 ft | 213 ftCurrent River | 207 ft | $140 | |||
| Group Sites 1-3 | G02 | group tent only area nonelectric | 103 ft | 110 ftCurrent River | 202 ft | $140 | |||
| Group Sites 1-3 | G03 | group tent only area nonelectric | 195 ft | 20 ftCurrent River | 155 ft | $140 | |||
| Group Sites 4-8 | G04 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 376 ft | 281 ftCurrent River | 665 ft | $140 | ||
| Group Sites 4-8 | G05 | group standard nonelectric | 195 ft | 136 ftCurrent River | 356 ft | $140 | |||
| Group Sites 4-8 | G06 | group standard nonelectric | 174 ft | 244 ftCurrent River | 101 ft | $140 | |||
| Group Sites 4-8 | G07 | group standard nonelectric | 211 ft | 196 ftCurrent River | 169 ft | $140 | |||
| Group Sites 4-8 | G08 | group standard nonelectric | 174 ft | 78 ftCurrent River | 268 ft | $140 | |||
| Host | 001 | type not stated | 50 ft | 50 amp | |||||
| Round Spring Picnic Pavilions | Round Spring Picnic Pavilion | day use | 15 amp | 179 ft | 264 ft | $33 | |||
| Standard | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 100 ft | 907 ft | 553 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 46 ft | 870 ft | 437 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 69 ft | 988 ft | 520 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 46 ft | 916 ft | 448 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 006 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 69 ft | 1,013 ft | 467 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 51 ft | 915 ft | 394 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 1,060 ft | 411 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 51 ft | 927 ft | 346 ft | $20 | |
| Standard | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 90 ft | 1,028 ft | 350 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 011 | type not stated | 28 ft | ||||||
| Standard | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 969 ft | 271 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 013 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 113 ft | 912 ft | 258 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 86 ft | 919 ft | 215 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 015 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 86 ft | 888 ft | 206 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 100 ft | 840 ft | 223 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 017 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 86 ft | 583 ftCurrent River | 231 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 86 ft | 602 ftCurrent River | 300 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 019 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 92 ft | 492 ftCurrent River | 176 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 77 ft | 521 ftCurrent River | 277 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 021 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 72 ft | 389 ftCurrent River | 170 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 022 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 67 ft | 452 ftCurrent River | 276 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 023 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 72 ft | 335 ftCurrent River | 224 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 024 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 67 ft | 404 ftCurrent River | 305 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 025 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 132 ft | 230 ftCurrent River | 359 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 026 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 132 ft | 130 ftCurrent River | 332 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 027 | tent only nonelectric | $20 | ||||||
| Standard | 028 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 104 ft | 221 ftCurrent River | 202 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 029 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 104 ft | 320 ftCurrent River | 111 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 030 | tent only nonelectric | 88 ft | 54 ft | 322 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 031 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 101 ft | 259 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 032 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 134 ft | 229 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 033 | tent only nonelectric | 48 ft | 174 ft | 218 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 034 | tent only nonelectric | 48 ft | 198 ft | 231 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 035 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 244 ft | 236 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 036 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 100 ft | 328 ft | 147 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 037 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 90 ft | 421 ft | 122 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 038 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 99 ft | 379 ft | 237 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 039 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 73 ft | 459 ft | 211 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 040 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 95 ft | 534 ft | 285 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 041 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 73 ft | 493 ft | 212 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 042 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 91 ft | 613 ft | 311 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 043 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 92 ft | 684 ft | 185 ft | $20 | ||
| Standard | 044 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 657 ft | 356 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 045 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 746 ft | 260 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 046 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 676 ft | 415 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 047 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | 773 ft | 335 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 048 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 712 ft | 496 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 049 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 802 ft | 415 ft | $20 | |||
| Standard | 050 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | $20 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 65 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sinking Creek CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 1.5 mi
PulltiteOzark National Scenic Riverways · 5.4 mi
Jerktail CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 6.5 mi
Broadfoot CampgroundOzark National Scenic Riverways · 8.3 mi
Two RiversOzark National Scenic Riverways · 9.3 mi
Alley SpringOzark National Scenic Riverways · 9.6 miRound Spring Campground is located 13 miles (21 km) north of the town of Eminence, Missouri on Missouri Highway 19.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Eminence, MO
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 71°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 20°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Round Spring is in Missouri’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Jason Smith (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →