Sunset over Coralville Lake
Lower Playground
West Overlook
Sunset over Coralville Lake
West Overlook Boat Ramp

Featured amenities

Pet Friendly Pet Friendly
Showers Showers

Available sites

89 total sites

About West Overlook Campground

The West Overlook Campground is located within the Dam Complex at the Coralville Lake Project. The Coralville Lake Project is a multiple use project providing primary benefits in flood control and low flow augmentation, and secondary benefits in recreation, fish and wildlife management and forest management. Coralville Lake provides many recreational opportunities, including boating, camping, hiking, mountain biking, lake and river fishing, swimming, water skiing, picnicking and hunting.

Activities & Attractions

Nearby

Boating

Boating

Spring Summer Fall
Fishing

Fishing

Year-round
Hiking

Hiking

Year-round
Hunting

Hunting

Year-round
Mountain Biking

Mountain Biking

Year-round
Swimming

Swimming

Summer
Water Skiing

Water Skiing

Summer

Seasonal information

2026 (Current year)

2026 Season availability

Current season
Upcoming seasons
Past seasons
Closed periods
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Currently closed

Campground Amenities

Most popular amenities

Pet friendly Pet friendly
Showers Showers
RV Utilities and Hookups

RV Utilities and Hookups

  • Dump station on site
Water and Hygiene

Water and Hygiene

  • Potable Water
  • Showers
Water Access

Water Access

  • Lake Access
Pets and Policies

Pets and Policies

  • Pet friendly
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Rates, Sites & Availability

Select check-in and check-out dates to see real-time availability for each site.

89 Sites Available

Site
Price
🚐 W01, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 51 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W02, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 50 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W03, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 49 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W04, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 55 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W05, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 53 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W06, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 32 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W07, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 57 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W08, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 59 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W09, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 56 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W10, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 49 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W11, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 50 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W12, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 44 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W13, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 49 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W14, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 57 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W15, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 55 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W16, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 59 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W17, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 43 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W18, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 55 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W19, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 50 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W20, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 53 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W21, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 61 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W22, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 53 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W23, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 55 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W24, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 61 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W25, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 54 ft long · Paved
🚐 W26, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 48 ft long · Paved
🚐 W27, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 51 ft long · Paved
🚐 W28, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 49 ft long · Paved
🚐 W29, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 53 ft long · Paved
🚐 W30, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 50 ft long · Paved
🚐 W31, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 58 ft long · Paved
🚐 W32, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 46 ft long · Paved
🚐 W33, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 52 ft long · Paved
🚐 W34, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 35 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W35, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 53 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W36, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 32 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W37, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 47 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W38, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 50 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W39, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 55 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W40, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 55 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W41, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 53 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W42, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 58 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W43, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 52 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W44, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 52 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W45, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 59 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W46, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W47, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 63 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W48, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 49 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W49, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 61 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W50, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 57 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W51, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 64 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W52, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 54 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W53, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 49 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W54, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 59 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W55, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 54 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W56, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 51 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W57, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 51 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W58, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W59, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 48 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W60, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 66 × 20 ft · Paved
🚐 W61, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 59 ft long · Paved
🚐 W62, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 59 ft long · Paved
🚐 W63, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 53 ft long · Paved
🚐 W64, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 54 ft long · Paved
🚐 W65, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 58 ft long · Paved
🚐 W66, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 56 ft long · Paved
🚐 W67, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 57 ft long · Paved
🚐 W68, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 51 ft long · Paved
🚐 W69, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 57 ft long · Paved
🚐 W70, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 × 20 ft · Paved
🚐 W71, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 × 20 ft · Paved
🚐 W72, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 × 20 ft · Paved
🚐 W73, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 × 20 ft · Paved
🚐 W74, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 × 20 ft · Paved
🚐 W75, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 × 20 ft · Paved
🚐 W76, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · Gravel · Back-in Site
🚐 W77, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 × 20 ft · Paved
🚐 W78, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 64 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W79, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 58 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W80, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 53 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W81, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 65 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W82, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 54 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W83, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 53 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W84, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 58 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W85, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 54 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W86, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 56 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W87, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 56 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W88, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 60 ft long · Gravel
🚐 W89, Loop: WOVC RV
Pet Friendly · 73 ft long · Gravel

Reviews (556)

Review Summary

4.5
556 reviews
5
64.2%
357
4
23.2%
129
3
8.8%
49
2
2.2%
12
1
1.6%
9

Dan G

Verified

August 11, 2021 • Stayed at: W51, Loop: WOVC

5

Beautiful campground!

Theresa O

Verified

August 12, 2021 • Stayed at: W38, Loop: WOVC

4

We stopped here just one night. We camped in site W38, very clean large site, away from busy main loops. Bathrooms very clean . Easy walk to everything. We were there on a Wednesday night and it was very quiet, I'm sure the weekends not so much. I would stay there again.

Theresa W

Verified

August 13, 2021 • Stayed at: W17, Loop: WOVC

3

Sites are nice, level and wide with fire pit/grill and very heavy picnic tables. Most sites are shady with well spaced trees, giving plenty of room to maneuver RV rigs into the sites. Electric only at each site means that you must fill up with water in your rig before entering into the camping area. There is a water spigot in some of the sections but not close enough to most rigs for refilling fresh water tanks. Shower floors, walls, and curtains were not very clean when I was there for several days in July and August. The shower stalls are very strange with 2 shower stalls inside an enclosed area with one bench and no place to hang a towel or anyplace to place shampoo and conditioner bottles. Do not understand why the two shower stalls which limits showering by more than one person at a time unless it is a parent and child.

Mickey F

Verified

August 15, 2021 • Stayed at: W57, Loop: WOVC

5

Beautiful campground! Wonderful beach. Clean and well maintained

Mark R

Verified

August 17, 2021 • Stayed at: W79, Loop: WOVC

4

Friendly staff.

William L

Verified

August 17, 2021 • Stayed at: W45, Loop: WOVC

4

It was a good overnight, we missed the fact the sites are electric only and was not told about the community water to fill tanks. Nice view and the Fossil Gorge is worth the bike or walk to see.

Robert B

Verified

August 18, 2021 • Stayed at: W03, Loop: WOVC

3

This campground was a bit of a disappointment to us, as the sites were quite close and water on a 4-5 spigot standpipe was just out of reach for our hose. The campground was clean.

Michelle J

Verified

August 23, 2021 • Stayed at: W03, Loop: WOVC

3

We stayed at Sandy Beach for three days. When I made our reservations all the sites but this one were shown as unavailable yet when we arrived only a few were actually occupied. Most remained empty for the three days we were there. The rules very clearly state if you are not there for the first night of your reservation, your reservation is forfeited yet when I checked on line these sites never open up. That stinks! So as for the campground it is very nice. The beach is super nice and was completely empty most of the time we were there. The one thing I really had a problem with was the red ants. Our campsite had a huge nest of them and I was bit by them twice. I noticed lots of red ant nests in the campground so it wasn't just our site.

Gary F

Verified

August 23, 2021 • Stayed at: W78, Loop: WOVC

5

Our 6th time camping here and we drive 175 mi to get there. One of our favorite places. Very clean and well maintained. Hosts and Rangers go out of their way to make everyone happy and at $10. A night with the lifetime pass it’s cheaper than living in our house! There is even a Devonian era fossil field that was uncovered by a flood not so many years ago that proves that this was once an inland ocean but is now a campground!

Dave S

Verified

August 24, 2021 • Stayed at: W16, Loop: WOVC

4

Well kept campground with very friendly hosts. We had a wonderful time.

Location & Directions for West Overlook Campground

4053 West Overlook Rd Ne, Iowa City, IA 52240 United States

Elevation: 233 ft

Getting There

From Interstate 80 (Iowa City, IA) take Exit 244 towards Dubuque St./North Liberty. Travel north on Dubuque St. for 3 mi and turn right onto West Overlook Rd. NE. Travel on West Overlook Rd. NE for 1.1 mi. At the stop sign take a slight left turn....

Nearest town

Iowa City, IA - 6.2 mi

About 14 min to downtown

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Last updated: October 7, 2026

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