2021 Campout #6 - Echo Bluff State Park

It's November. The tents and sleeping bags are all packed away. Camping season is done, right? Wrong! With a holiday on the calendar and a free day off work following that, it was the perfect opportunity to squeeze in one more trip! November weather, like any weather, can be pretty tricky to predict, especially months in advance. But none of that would matter because we would set our sights on an indoor camping trip to the Betty Lea Lodge at Echo Bluff State Park! This would not only be my first time staying at this park but it would, obviously, be the first time staying in the lodge here as well! After opening in 2016, (MO State Parks Centennial Passport Challenge (part 7)!) and seeing the place for the first time, I was always wanting to give it a try as they seemingly spared no expense in building this park! It was also going to be nice to spend some time in the area as well since the park is nestled in the middle of the Ozark National Scenic Riverways which not an area I get to visit frequently.