Anyone on here from Lake of the Ozarks?

[jinxx4ever]

Wanting to see if maybe there some members that currently live at or around Lake of the Ozarks. While i've never visited the area yet, my wife and i have been wanting to get down there and take a look around as we've had friends that have visited and say its pretty awesome. We are thinking of retiring in the next few years and thinking that would b a good area to retire in. I enjoy my HD and it looks like tons of good riding. Also shoot and fish. Hopefully we head down around march 12th to take a look and check out some properties, Thanks

 

[RonA]

My parents and some family are from that area. Cole Camp, Stover, Sedalia, Lakeview Heights, and Warsaw. The trot line fishing is really good.
Truman is good as well.

 

[rjacobs]

ive spent A LOT of time down there.

I have friends with lake houses down there. One has a place in Sunrise beach and the other in Osage Beach(south of 54 though so not on the "main channel" so to speak).

I have one friend that lives full time there, grew up there, etc... The live in Laurie and own Big Dicks Halfway Inn...


There are a few different "areas" of the lake where people congregate... the lake is big...100 miles from tip to tip(or there abouts).

Sunrise beach, Laurie, Osage Beach, Lake Ozark and Camdenton... Those are the main areas... Hundreds/thousands of miles of "lake roads" take you to many many houses on the water. A large portion of the lake is Corp property so no houses on the lake. This is generally the area on google maps labeled "lake of the ozarks state park"... thats where party cove is...

The area where "all the action is" is generally considered Osage Beach... Its the most centrally located area, but also crazy busy in the summer.

Driving around kind of sucks... lots of "you cant get there from here" type of things. Something might be 5 miles via water, but 50 miles via road.

You need a "bigger" boat if you are going to venture out on the main channel during the weekends...and you will want to do that. I would say 30' at a minimum. Certainly lots of people out there in smaller boats, but most people who "live" there full time have much larger boats. Most of the time when I am there we are either on some form of 36-40' go fast boat or a 36'+ cabin boat. MOST stuff is accessed via boat. Probably close to 100 restaurants/bars you can go to. dont like whats going on where you are, head somewhere else... Everywhere has "dock girls" to help tie up your boat...

 

[BigPrince]

Friends have a condo on the lake on the south side. It's ok. Went there last June and the lake was completely full of rain debris trash. Been fishing for 30yrs and never seen that much debris in any lake. It cleared up some as you went north but still had a good bit. I'll go back again to give it another shot and hope that was an anomaly.