About Cedar Pass Campground
Number of accommodations: 83
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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (603)
What Guests Are Saying
Cedar Pass Campground offers beautiful scenery and a perfect location for exploring the Badlands, with friendly campground hosts and clean, spacious sites that provide privacy. Guests enjoy excellent stargazing opportunities and convenient access to trails and facilities. However, some reviews mention outdated showers and occasional cleanliness issues in the bathrooms, as well as a lack of shade and privacy between sites. Overall, visitors appreciate the campground's charm and its proximity to the park's attractions.
What Guests Are Saying
Cedar Pass Campground offers beautiful scenery and a perfect location for exploring the Badlands, with friendly campground hosts and clean, spacious sites that provide privacy. Guests enjoy excellent stargazing opportunities and convenient access to trails and facilities. However, some reviews mention outdated showers and occasional cleanliness issues in the bathrooms, as well as a lack of shade and privacy between sites. Overall, visitors appreciate the campground's charm and its proximity to the park's attractions.
Review Summary
Sam S
VerifiedAugust 3, 2025 • Stayed at: 27, Loop: Agate
This is a good campground. The spaces are a little closer together than I would have preferred but it's still a good location with good facilities: there are showers for a cost as well which is nice.
Matthew L
VerifiedAugust 2, 2025 • Stayed at: 67, Loop: Butte
Campground was great! The people, the environment, the stars…all wonderful!
Matthew L
VerifiedAugust 2, 2025 • Stayed at: 67, Loop: Butte
Campground was great! The people, the environment, the stars…all wonderful!
Russell E
VerifiedJuly 31, 2025 • Stayed at: 83, Loop: Butte
Hot hot hot! Plan on early rising for hiking, biking and then touring in a vehicle to get thru the heat of the day. Never stayed in a campsite like this. Campers/Vans/RVs set up on the circle drive road. Tents can be on the grass. So windy and no shade anywhere. Couple miles away in Interior, SD is Cowboy Corner a small gas station/grocery/restaurant that saved us for some fruit, basic grocery items and ice! Do Notches, Door, & Window Hikes. Good way to beat the heat is a visit to Wall Drug. Nice amphitheater at the park by the campsite for Ranger led programming!
Juli S
VerifiedJuly 31, 2025 • Stayed at: 33, Loop: Agate
The campsite was well marked and clean. The main bathroom was also clean although a side bathroom was not so much. It was unclear if the water available was drinkable. The drinking fountains did not work. The evening was quiet after dark.
Joseph H
VerifiedJuly 31, 2025 • Stayed at: 86, Loop: Butte
Great rangers and great campsites
Russell E
VerifiedJuly 31, 2025 • Stayed at: 83, Loop: Butte
Hot hot hot! Plan on early rising for hiking, biking and then touring in a vehicle to get thru the heat of the day. Never stayed in a campsite like this. Campers/Vans/RVs set up on the circle drive road. Tents can be on the grass. So windy and no shade anywhere. Couple miles away in Interior, SD is Cowboy Corner a small gas station/grocery/restaurant that saved us for some fruit, basic grocery items and ice! Do Notches, Door, & Window Hikes. Good way to beat the heat is a visit to Wall Drug. Nice amphitheater at the park by the campsite for Ranger led programming!
Juli S
VerifiedJuly 31, 2025 • Stayed at: 33, Loop: Agate
The campsite was well marked and clean. The main bathroom was also clean although a side bathroom was not so much. It was unclear if the water available was drinkable. The drinking fountains did not work. The evening was quiet after dark.
Joseph H
VerifiedJuly 31, 2025 • Stayed at: 86, Loop: Butte
Great rangers and great campsites
bryan p
VerifiedJuly 29, 2025 • Stayed at: 80, Loop: Butte
will not return
poor campground for summer
bad design
Location Cedar Pass Campground
Address:
20681 South Dakota Highway 240
Interior, SD, 57750
United States
Cedar Pass Campground is accessible via I-90, with nearby exits leading to SD Highway 240, the Badlands Loop Road, which provides direct access to the campground. Additionally, Scenic Highway 44 connects to the area.
Latitude & Longitude: 43.745 / -101.948
Elevation: 736 feet
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
1PM
Check out time
11AM
Cancellation policy
- Reservation fees are non-refundable. For campsites, cabins, lookouts, yurts, group sites, and similar stays, we charge a reservation service fee of $8.
- Standard cancellations usually have a $10 cancellation fee. Customers can generally cancel before the check-in date online.
- Late cancellation rules differ by stay type.
- Individual campsites: cancelling after 12:00am local time the day before arrival usually means a $10 cancellation fee plus forfeiting the first night's fee.
- Cabins, lookouts, and yurts: cancelling less than 14 days before arrival usually means a $10 cancellation fee plus forfeiting the first night's fee.
- One-night reservations: a late cancellation usually forfeits the full amount paid, up to the total original reservation cost.
- Modifications are allowed before the cut-off window, but fees depend on the change. Changing to dates completely outside the original reservation dates may trigger a $10 change fee. Extending or shortening a stay that still includes original dates usually has no change fee, though refunds may depend on timing and facility rules. Switching to the same type of campsite for the same dates usually has no change fee, but price differences are charged or refunded.
- Early departures may or may not be refunded. At certain facilities, partial refunds may be possible if staff can mark the site available for other visitors. No refund is given for a night if the early departure is requested after that day's check-out time.
- Security deposits are separate. Security deposits may be refunded to the original payment method if the facility is left in acceptable condition, as determined by the property.
Safety & rules
- Ensure your campsite is prepared and belongings are secured due to weather conditions.
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Last updated: June 5, 2026
