Little Scotia Campground

Primitive camping. No bathroom. No trash. No fire rings. But quiet and beautiful and clean. Would recommend.

Totally overgrown and completely abandoned campground now The NFS motto is 'Leave No Trace' They took the johns and signs, but left everything else behind to wither and rot, aka a pretty big Trace.... I reported Beavers had taken over the pond, returned a few weeks later and all the Beavers vanished, spent 5 hours on the bank to dusk....not one sighting to what are aggressive Beavers who had no problem harassing visitors? AVOID THE CAMPGROUND AREA AT ALL COST AND DO NOT EVEN ENTER ON FOOT Some kind of nomadic RV'er camped here, dumped trash and cans, Also did a huge toilet dump directly on a space, and another space. The place seems to have hit the radar for wanderers of sorts? People who aren't families on a weekend jaunt I'll put it that way. They aren't locals either. The kind of people that if law enforcement encounters them, they best serve themselves and the public by moving them down the road? The kind of people with backgrounds that would take a deputy out of patrol for the rest of the day or more? In a unique area crossed up with 3 counties? What the NFS did to Missouri was create an Outlaw Hideout for Criminals on the Run. Now some camp sites are insect and sewage infested, I don't mean a little and I mean a lot. I walked up because there was a note hanging, and my legs ended up getting chewed even with repellant applied? The County and the State have a Serious Health Situation that will absolutely threaten human safety and wildlife both. This area was all man created, it's not authentic natural so the use of a bulldozer here is warranted considering how deadly this could be? "Cholera" comes to mind when toilets are dumped on the ground. Little Scotia Pond, Scotia Lake, and the other ponds along this giant ridge are all collectively the headwaters or source for the Meramec River which ends in St. Louis and provides drinking water all along it's travel. Nearby one little mud hole is marked as the source, it's not true because there are several branches that when they all merge, it forms the Meramec from this ridge. Scotia Lake and Little Scotia Pond are the two biggest watersheds in the area. I wouldn't waste my time trying to find that little mudhole marked on Google maps here it's no more that a clay pit and entangled with weeds

It hasn't been upkept since the 80's and its quiet. Perfect!

Secluded,primitive,not well groomed at all.

This is a small area but a beautiful place for pictures.

Nice little Primitive Campground. Watch for Roots digging a Pit.