Surrounded by the vast, open prairie and featuring expansive views of the Badlands, Cedar Pass Campground is a great base camp from which to explore Badlands National Park. Featuring 96 sites, this seasonal campground is open from late March through mid-October, and is conveniently located within easy walking distance of Cedar Pass Lodge & Restaurant and the Ben Reifel Visitor Center.
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⛺1, Loop: Agate
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🚐10, Loop: Agate
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🚐12, Loop: Agate
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30 × 12 ft
🚐13, Loop: Agate
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30 × 16 ft
🚐14, Loop: Agate
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🚐15, Loop: Agate
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50 × 13 ft
🚐16, Loop: Agate
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🚐17, Loop: Agate
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60 × 12 ft
🚐18, Loop: Agate
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50 × 15 ft
🚐19, Loop: Agate
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55 × 16 ft
⛺2, Loop: Agate
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🚐20, Loop: Agate
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55 × 18 ft
🚐21, Loop: Agate
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55 × 15 ft
🚐22, Loop: Agate
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55 × 12 ft
🚐23, Loop: Agate
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50 × 12 ft
🚐24, Loop: Agate
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30 × 18 ft
🚐25, Loop: Agate
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45 × 12 ft
🚐26, Loop: Agate
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40 × 12 ft
🚐27, Loop: Agate
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Pet Friendly · 50 × 17 ft
🚐28, Loop: Agate
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⛺29, Loop: Agate
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⛺3, Loop: Agate
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🚐30, Loop: Agate
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⛺31, Loop: Agate
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⛺32, Loop: Agate
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⛺33, Loop: Agate
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⛺34, Loop: Agate
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⛺35, Loop: Agate
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⛺36, Loop: Agate
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⛺38, Loop: Agate
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⛺39, Loop: Agate
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⛺4, Loop: Agate
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🚐40, Loop: Butte
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🚐41, Loop: Butte
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🚐43, Loop: Butte
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🚐45, Loop: Butte
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⛺5, Loop: Agate
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⛺58, Loop: Butte
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⛺59, Loop: Butte
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⛺6, Loop: Agate
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🚐60, Loop: Butte
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🚐61, Loop: Butte
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🚐62, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 55 ft long
🚐63, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 50 ft long
🚐64, Loop: Butte
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🚐65, Loop: Butte
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⛺66, Loop: Butte
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⛺67, Loop: Butte
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🚐68, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 45 ft long
⛺69, Loop: Butte
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🚐7, Loop: Agate
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Pet Friendly · 35 × 11 ft
🚐70, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 55 ft long
⛺71, Loop: Butte
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⛺72, Loop: Butte
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🚐73, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐74, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 35 ft long
⛺75, Loop: Butte
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🚐76, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐77, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 45 ft long
🚐78, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐79, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
⛺8, Loop: Agate
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🚐80, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 65 ft long
🚐81, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐82, Loop: Butte
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🚐83, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 55 ft long
🚐84, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐85, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 65 ft long
🚐86, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐87, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 65 ft long
⛺88, Loop: Butte
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⛺89, Loop: Butte
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🚐90, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 35 ft long
⛺91, Loop: Butte
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🚐92, Loop: Butte
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⛺93, Loop: Butte
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🚐94, Loop: Butte
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⛺95, Loop: Butte
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🚐96, Loop: Butte
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🚐Group Loop 1, Loop: Group
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⛺1, Loop: Agate
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🚐10, Loop: Agate
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Pet Friendly · 30 × 18 ft
🚐12, Loop: Agate
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30 × 12 ft
🚐13, Loop: Agate
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30 × 16 ft
🚐14, Loop: Agate
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30 × 12 ft
🚐15, Loop: Agate
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50 × 13 ft
🚐16, Loop: Agate
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50 × 12 ft
🚐17, Loop: Agate
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60 × 12 ft
🚐18, Loop: Agate
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50 × 15 ft
🚐19, Loop: Agate
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55 × 16 ft
⛺2, Loop: Agate
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🚐20, Loop: Agate
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55 × 18 ft
🚐21, Loop: Agate
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55 × 15 ft
🚐22, Loop: Agate
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55 × 12 ft
🚐23, Loop: Agate
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50 × 12 ft
🚐24, Loop: Agate
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30 × 18 ft
🚐25, Loop: Agate
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45 × 12 ft
🚐26, Loop: Agate
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40 × 12 ft
🚐27, Loop: Agate
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Pet Friendly · 50 × 17 ft
🚐28, Loop: Agate
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Pet Friendly · 50 × 10 ft
⛺29, Loop: Agate
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⛺3, Loop: Agate
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🚐30, Loop: Agate
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Pet Friendly · 35 × 13 ft
⛺31, Loop: Agate
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⛺32, Loop: Agate
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⛺33, Loop: Agate
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⛺34, Loop: Agate
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⛺35, Loop: Agate
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⛺36, Loop: Agate
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⛺38, Loop: Agate
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⛺39, Loop: Agate
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⛺4, Loop: Agate
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🚐40, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 55 × 13 ft
🚐41, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 55 × 12 ft
🚐43, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 55 × 14 ft
🚐45, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 50 × 12 ft
⛺5, Loop: Agate
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⛺58, Loop: Butte
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⛺59, Loop: Butte
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⛺6, Loop: Agate
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🚐60, Loop: Butte
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🚐61, Loop: Butte
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🚐62, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 55 ft long
🚐63, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 50 ft long
🚐64, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐65, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
⛺66, Loop: Butte
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⛺67, Loop: Butte
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🚐68, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 45 ft long
⛺69, Loop: Butte
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🚐7, Loop: Agate
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Pet Friendly · 35 × 11 ft
🚐70, Loop: Butte
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⛺71, Loop: Butte
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⛺72, Loop: Butte
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🚐73, Loop: Butte
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🚐74, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 35 ft long
⛺75, Loop: Butte
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🚐76, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐77, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 45 ft long
🚐78, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐79, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
⛺8, Loop: Agate
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🚐80, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 65 ft long
🚐81, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐82, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐83, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 55 ft long
🚐84, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐85, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 65 ft long
🚐86, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐87, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 65 ft long
⛺88, Loop: Butte
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⛺89, Loop: Butte
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🚐90, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 35 ft long
⛺91, Loop: Butte
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🚐92, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 30 ft long
⛺93, Loop: Butte
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🚐94, Loop: Butte
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Pet Friendly · 30 ft long
⛺95, Loop: Butte
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🚐96, Loop: Butte
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🚐Group Loop 1, Loop: Group
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🚐Group Loop 2, Loop: Group
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🚐Group Loop 3, Loop: Group
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🚐Group Loop 4, Loop: Group
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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.
We stayed in site # 10 (Agate) and # 81 (Butte) for one night each. It is a nice campground with good restroom and shower facilities. The sites are close together with limited privacy, as is to be expected based on the Badlands terrain. But it worked well for us in our Class B van. There is a picnic table on each site with a wooden screen to give shade from the sun. We enjoyed our time there! Verizon signal was reasonable at our sites. The campsite is very close to the visitor center (which has excellent fossil and geology exhibits) and you can walk or bike to some of the closer scenic overlooks.
Nice location within the Badlands. The campground facilities were adequate, but not great. The national parks appear to need money, as staffing overall appeared needing.
Beautiful location with clean, nice bathrooms and showers. No privacy here, but everyone was respectful of each other. Can get very windy and storms can be strong. The sky at night is incredible.
We enjoyed the view from the Cedar Pass campground. It is conveniently located near the visitor's center as well as the lodge and most of the hiking trails in the park. We attended ranger programs nearby in the evening. The bathrooms were pretty clean and conveniently located. The beautiful badlands wall overlooked the campground. Overall, it was a great experience.
We enjoyed our stay but wasn’t aware that to see much wildlife you would need to hike a good bit. My wife has copd so we’re pretty much limited to riding and looking. Still had a good trip!
We enjoyed our stay but wasn’t aware that to see much wildlife you would need to hike a good bit. My wife has copd so we’re pretty much limited to riding and looking. Still had a good trip!
The badlands are a wide open expanse with great views of the "wall". The campground provided the basic amenaties including a picnic table shelter. My site didn't have electricity so arriving in late September was acceptable with the heat. The dump station was clean but a bit hard to find. I enjoyed camping there.
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Location & Directions for Cedar Pass Campground
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.
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.
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