RV park and mobile home community · Clinton County, Missouri

Thirty-one lots, a gravel loop, and nobody idling past your window at 2am.

A rusted steel fire ring set into a gravel pad, cold ash and a half burnt log inside it, the corner of a weathered picnic table behind, low evening sun on the grass.

123 Main St, Lathrop, MO 64465 Quarter mile off Highway 116, six minutes from the I-35 exit. Pull-through lots on the outside of the loop, back-ins on the inside. (816) 555-0188

Open now: four RV lots, two of them pull-through. One mobile home lot opens the first of next month. Checked by hand every Monday morning. If this page is stale, the phone is not.

Rung one

A night

$38

per night, one rig, two people

50 and 30 amp at every lot, metered nightly at flat rate
Water and sewer hookup
Gravel pad, picnic table, fire ring
No reservations under three nights in October, that is deer season and the lots go to weeklies

Roll in after hours and take any lot with a green tag on the post, then settle up in the morning. That has worked for nineteen years.

An empty pull-through lot shot straight down its length: gravel pad, hookup post, picnic table and fire ring, mowed grass either side, overcast sky.

Rung two

A week

$205

per week, saves you $61

Everything on the nightly rate
Mail held at the office
One dump-station pass for a second rig
Electric still flat rate at this length, so a running air conditioner is not costing you extra

Most of our weeklies are working a job in Kansas City or St. Joseph and would rather not commute from a motel. Call (816) 555-0188 and say which week.

Rung three

A month

$465

per month, plus metered electric

Water, sewer and trash included
Electric read on the first and billed at cost, usually $40 to $90
Gravel parking for one extra vehicle
A shed under 8 by 10 is fine, ask first
One month minimum, no deposit if you have been through here before

This is where the honest number lives. A park quoting a monthly rate with electric folded in is either guessing or padding, and you find out in January.

Rung four

A mobile home lot

$310

per month, lot lease only

Lot, water, sewer, trash, mowing of the common ground
Concrete runners and a poured step pad
You own the home, you insure the home
Skirting within 60 days of set
We do not sell homes and we do not finance them, so nobody here has a reason to talk you into one

A row of skirted single wide homes with wooden steps and small tidy yards along a gravel street, shot low and level.

Set fees, permits and the mover are yours. We will tell you what the county wants before you spend anything, which is a ten minute phone call and it has saved people a lot of money.

The short list of rules

Quiet from 10pm to 7am. Generators, dogs, and the loud truck all count.
Two pets, leashed on the loop. No breed rules. There is a rule about picking up after them and it is enforced.
Speed limit is 10 and it feels too slow. That is the point, there are kids on the north end.
Rigs older than twenty years are fine if they are roadworthy and hold their fluids. We look, we do not judge the year.
Rent is due on the first. Late on the fifth. Tell us before the fifth and it is a conversation, not a notice.

What is actually near here

Grocery and pharmacy in town1.2 mi
Diner, open six in the morning1.4 mi
I-35 northbound on-ramp5.8 mi
Laundromat1.5 mi
Urgent care11 mi
Smithville Lake, boat ramp18 mi
Downtown Kansas City41 mi

The gravel loop road through the park at golden hour, travel trailers parked on their pads with mowed grass between them, trees along the edge.