Candy Cane RV Park

There is a unknown little place about 3 miles from the town of Steelville, MO on Highway 8 West. A little Christmas magic in the form of an RV/ camping park awaits your visit. Candy Cane RV Park offers a small pool, free showers, camping tent rentals and RV hook ups. They also offer mini golf. Their mini golf area is truly small (read: mini) but they’ve taken a lot of care into designing it themselves and making it the best they could using their own artistic skill. Someone at this place has talent. It’s not the kind of talent or vacation spot you’d see featured in a magazine or on television. It is the kind of quaint place that makes one appreciate a wide variety of people in the world doing what they enjoy. Someone here very much enjoys creating, crafting, wood working, building, painting and…Christmas.


These appear to be homemade!

It’s a little strange parking next to a Santa Claus statue twice our size that is leaning over baby Jesus in the middle of July but I love quirky places. I love the variety of people in this world.

The grounds are clean and tidy and the landscaping well cared for. A modest and tidy trailer home sits neatly tucked away in the corner, I assume it could be a caretakers home. The older woman who rang us up was very grandmotherly and nice. The gentleman who owns the place walks with a limp and has Cerebral Palsy. His name is Bill and he is very, very nice. You may not see through is mussed hair and wild eyes, but he is just a business man living the American dream. His speech is heavily slurred so you may want to prepare your children and use your visit as a possible teachable moment about disabilities. I was a little hesitant to ask, but he kindly showed me where the restrooms were. I quickly realized he seems high functioning despite the challenges he outwardly has. I was impressed and inspired to learn this is his business. Good for him!

Speaking of restrooms, they were clean as could be and in a cute barn red building. They had showers near the back of them, and they are free unlike some that take quarters.

We took eight kids mini golfing and they made it through very quickly. I think there are nine holes of golf. It was 100 degrees outside so they wanted to get done quickly (and so did we)! In nicer weather we would have stayed longer. The grown-ups appreciated a picnic table under a pavilion at the edge of the mini golf area. We hid from the sun while they ran around in the heat swatting at golf balls. Ah, to be young again. From our pavilion AKA refuge from the sun we could see the kids almost the whole time they golfed.

The kids gave the whole day a thumbs up!