Xavid wrote:
Mike, Table Rock sounds ideal for us. Unfortunately it is 522 miles from here. That would take me more than 9 hours driving straight thru. With bathroom breaks, gas stops, meals, it would take more like 11 hours. Long haul for me pulling 6500 lbs. I'll look into maybe a week off work for such a trip. Do you rent a house or lodge/ hotel or other?
Understood. Even from KC, with the bathroom breaks and so forth it ends up being too long a drive for us to do unless we're going for a week, which we try to do every summer. But once you try it, you'll find yourself thinking, "I have to figure out a way to get here more often."
TR has done some of what the more commercialized lakes have done, where they've built condos on undeveloped land or torn down old properties to make room for condos, but there are also still many small, family owned lodges with private docks, etc. So as long as you have the ability to make reservations far in advance, you can pick from a full range of accommodations. For reasons I won't bore you with, we usually don't have the luxury of making plans that far in advance, so we end up staying at a very nice, but not cheap, condo which is about 2 miles from a great dock facility that does daily and weekly slip rentals.
If you ever get closer to making such a trip, feel free to ask and I'll make recommendations. If you're into fireworks displays from the boat, the 4th of July Kimberling City display is really cool. Branson is far enough from the lake that you don't feel like you're staying in town, but close enough to do some other things besides boating when you want.
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