Cottonwood Campground (ND)

The evening Interpretive program was very good. I was surprised at how nice the bathrooms were!

Loved the location sites nice. Wish there were fire pits at all sites wonderful park

I really enjoyed our visit to Theodore Roosevelt NP and specifically found the camping experience to be even more pleasant than expected. We just had a simple tent and were at site 33 of the North loop. The site was well-shaded and pretty. There was a sense of privacy even though other campers were nearby. The restroom facilities were clean and reasonably convenient.
It's a lot of fun observing the prairie dogs in the park. My son and I were greatly entertained taking the hike through the prairie dog colony on the way to the Old East Entrance (at times the trail is within ten feet of the critters who often poked out of their holes to see what was going on), and we also found a shady spot just off the road near the visitor center to set up a couple of chairs and just sit and watch them for about an hour. There were dozens and perhaps one hundred or more visible from there.
Medora is a short drive from the campground and we enjoyed eating and playing some pickleball there in the evening.
The Visitor Center had some interesting history displays including an unusual rifle/shotgun combination Teddy Roosevelt had used, something I had no idea existed.
Overall it's a nice park to visit, I highly recommend. The weather in early June was just about perfect.

Loved the location sites nice. Wish there were fire pits at all sites wonderful park

I really enjoyed our visit to Theodore Roosevelt NP and specifically found the camping experience to be even more pleasant than expected. We just had a simple tent and were at site 33 of the North loop. The site was well-shaded and pretty. There was a sense of privacy even though other campers were nearby. The restroom facilities were clean and reasonably convenient.
It's a lot of fun observing the prairie dogs in the park. My son and I were greatly entertained taking the hike through the prairie dog colony on the way to the Old East Entrance (at times the trail is within ten feet of the critters who often poked out of their holes to see what was going on), and we also found a shady spot just off the road near the visitor center to set up a couple of chairs and just sit and watch them for about an hour. There were dozens and perhaps one hundred or more visible from there.
Medora is a short drive from the campground and we enjoyed eating and playing some pickleball there in the evening.
The Visitor Center had some interesting history displays including an unusual rifle/shotgun combination Teddy Roosevelt had used, something I had no idea existed.
Overall it's a nice park to visit, I highly recommend. The weather in early June was just about perfect.

Big roomy sites with lots of shady. Bathrooms are new but they are hard to find and few and far between. Would recommend camping here. We were tent camping.

Helpful campground manager and bathrooms were so nice and clean. Fun to see bison wander through camp.

Big roomy sites with lots of shady. Bathrooms are new but they are hard to find and few and far between. Would recommend camping here. We were tent camping.

Helpful campground manager and bathrooms were so nice and clean. Fun to see bison wander through camp.

We hit a bad streak of weather in mid June 2024. We got there in cold rain, sites were muddy, including ours. Nearest bathroom was closed. Sites were much smaller than the pix on the reservation site would make them look, and were have a class b only 21' long. We also found that nearly all the trials required a wading water crossing right at the beginning which was not great news with the cold. The just show crossings on the maps no mention of wet or dry crossings. Too cold for that. We were scheduled for 4 days, but with similar weather coming, we left the next morning as did many others in the campground, it appeared. Many empty sites when we got there and even more first thing in the morning. Not nearly as nice a place as it's popularity would indicate.