One of the most iconic "non-lake" images from the Lake of the Ozarks region is the Castle Ruins at Ha Ha Tonka State Park in Camdenton. In the early 1900s, a wealthy businessman from Kansas City ...

CAMDENTON - The place a man envisioned as his retreat away from the hustle and bustle of regular life now sees more than 500,000 visitors a year. It's the Castle Ruins at Ha Ha Tonka State Park in ...

Twenty years later, the castle was destroyed by fire, leaving behind the skeletal remains of charred stone. Today, you can visit the ruins by traversing the 0.8-mile-long paved Castle Trail.