#368c Jefferson City Binder Park Campground, Jefferson City, MO

We found this park using the Allstays app. I had called ahead to see if they had any vacancy in a lady said no problem, I mean she made it sound like there was no need to make any reservation or anything. We got to the park and saw a sign that said campground full. We pulled forward and hoped we might talk to someone. The host walked forward and I just said hey you’re really all full? he said yep. I said but we had called ahead and a nice lady said there were plenty of sites available so we didn't make a reservation. He said really? I have no idea what made him change his mind but he said you know I do have one site for one night. I told him we would take it. As it turns out our site was pretty far away from the water spigot. I used my 50-ft hose and my 25 ft hose and it was still no prayer of making it. I took a hose I usually drain my gray water with thinking how bad could it really be. It's just gray water and although full of disgusting microbes I didn't realize that it had a pretty bad smell. I filled it with the moonshine antiseptic that I had bought a gallon of. I put probably a pint of it in there and swished it from one end of the other killing all the germs inside. I thought it was going to make it absolutely like brand new. I flushed it ridiculously a long time. It was going to be our water source you know. Sometimes all my ideas are not that great. It might have been fine for a shower or washing the hands or flushing a toilet but it had a pretty lousy taste. I have a feeling that taste was gray water funk that the moonshine couldn't get rid of.

You only have to do that one time when you say I will never do that again so the next time I will just do without water. For the next day ish I thought man I hope I don't get sick on my stomach from microbes but I didn't and neither did India so I'm glad. Our visit here was mostly just sleeping and left the next day at check-out time.

Binder Park

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Fishing, boating, picnicking & softball fields featured in a 644-acre preserve with a lake.

Address: 5840 Rainbow Dr, Jefferson City, MO 65109

Phone: (573) 634-6482

coordinates 38.590000, -92.304000