Ottumwa Park Campground

The Great Outdoors

RV rentals in Wapello County are your best bet for finding the perfect rental RV for your vacation plans. Once you've found the one you want, jump behind the wheel of your Ottumwa motorhome rental and head for Tubaugh Wildlife Area, a multi-use landscape that is part forest and part farmland. The area is open to the public for hunting deer and small game such as turkey, rabbit, and squirrel, as well as fishing in the rivers and creeks. Tubaugh is historically and culturally significant, as well as an ideal destination for bird, nature, and wildlife observation.Honey Creek State Park is located on Rathbun Lake and just a few miles from Albia, making it the perfect place to enjoy a variety of activities like swimming, waterskiing, sailing, and more. It's a popular destination for fishing with crappie, walleye, and channel catfish on hand, and a fish cleaning station you can use when you're done for the day. You can hike the many trails that wind through the rolling wooded hills that surround the lake or enjoy picnicking amid the park's splendid views. The park is open year-round, and if you're here in the winter, you can enjoy cross-country skiing and snowmobiling. Honey Creek is part of the Rathbun Lake recreation complex that includes several other parks, marinas and thousands of acres of public land.Pioneer Ridge Nature Area is a stone's throw from Bloomfield and has a nature center where you can enjoy interpretive displays and educational programs regarding the park, its ecology, and its wildlife. It also has paved and natural hiking trails, picnic areas with tables, grills, water and restrooms, fishing ponds, and a blind where you can observe the resident bird species. It's a popular site for weddings and other special events due to its cultivated garden, and for practicing photography.

Exploring The Area

You'll want to save some time while you're here for enjoying the local culture and a good place to start is in Fairfield, which has history and architecture. You can take a walking tour of the town to enjoy its many buildings, structures, and numerous urban parks; one of the buildings is an independent theater space and cinema that was built in 1910. Another is a combination museum and observatory that is a re-creation of an observatory that uses instruments to study the stars rather than telescopes (the instruments were designed more than a century ago). The town has a convention center that hosts concerts and other events and a store where you can browse through refurbished furniture, vintage jewelry and clothing, and other miscellaneous items. Fairfield has an impressive dining scene for its size, which includes cafes and barbecue joints and a variety of cuisines that will both satisfy your curiosity and offer more familiar items.Fremont is another small community with a friendly atmosphere and a few celebrity residents (the 34th Governor of Iowa and a member of NASA's Apollo 11 mission both hail from here). The town has a few eateries that are locally owned and operated for you to check out, with eclectic atmospheres, reasonable prices, and large portions of home-cooked food.RV camping is one of the best ways to spend a vacation; when you book an RV rental near Ottumwa, IA, look no further than Ottumwa Park Campground.