About Cedar Pass Campground
Number of accommodations: 83
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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 However, some reviews mention outdated showers and occasional cleanliness issues in the bathrooms, as well as a lack of shade and privacy between sites.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 However, some reviews mention outdated showers and occasional cleanliness issues in the bathrooms, as well as a lack of shade and privacy between sites.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
Joyce M
VerifiedJune 24, 2025 • Stayed at: 14, Loop: Agate
The campgrounds were fine. Bathrooms were clean and convenient. Picnic table and wind shelter were a nice touch but it was so windy when we were there that we couldn't really use them. Not the fault of the campgrounds of course :-)
Carrie K
VerifiedJune 24, 2025 • Stayed at: 39, Loop: Agate
Beautiful place to camp.
Andrew G
VerifiedJune 24, 2025 • Stayed at: Group Loop 1, Loop: Group
The campgrounds were not great, but a large part of that was due to weather. More importantly, be sure to sell propane connections that are actually compatible with the propane stoves you sell...
This is a pretty basic compatibility issue that was overlooked by your managers.
Marie H
VerifiedJune 24, 2025 • Stayed at: 26, Loop: Agate
Loved our time here, though we got rocked twice in a row by insane storms. So if you’re camping in a tent, beware! The storms do not play. Such a beautiful location though. We could see for miles and miles across the prairie. The shade over the picnic table is brilliant, worked like a charm and also doubles as a great place to dry stuff. The coin showers were a little odd, never had to pay for a shower in a park before, but it mostly worked ok. The water stopped a min or so in and I had a panicked moment as I had no more quarters and was completely covered in soap… but it started up again so crisis averted. My husband says the men’s restroom was very hot, but the women’s was fine. The dumpster was overfull, but it was centrally located. Love that there was recycling on site. LOVED the dish sink, with HOT WATER!! I wish every campground had that. Would absolutely stay here again, even with the storms.
Joyce M
VerifiedJune 24, 2025 • Stayed at: 14, Loop: Agate
The campgrounds were fine. Bathrooms were clean and convenient. Picnic table and wind shelter were a nice touch but it was so windy when we were there that we couldn't really use them. Not the fault of the campgrounds of course :-)
victor paul v
VerifiedJune 23, 2025 • Stayed at: 59, Loop: Butte
Nice, clean site, with ample room for our 6-person tent (with foyer). Extremely windy location since there's nothing to slow it down as it crosses the valley.
The picnic table had a built-in shade that was much needed. The only sites that had trees for shade were the ones on the south edge.
Dishwash station was great. Restrooms were clean. We did not use the shower facilities, so I have no feedback there.
Cedar Pass Cafe and the gift shop were great for meals and treats.
Ranger program at 9pm was interesting and engaging. They talked about the night sky and brought out telescopes to see the full moon.
This is a great campsite to be nearby hiking trails and other sites to explore along the Badlands loop.
Eliana B
VerifiedJune 23, 2025 • Stayed at: 41, Loop: Butte
Stunning campsite definitely one of my favorite national park campgrounds
Kendall S
VerifiedJune 23, 2025 • Stayed at: 58, Loop: Butte
This campsite was great. There was plenty of level ground for a tent. It backs up to a nice grassy area with tons of birds and a creek. I did not go down to the creek, but I could hear it. Bathrooms were close and parking was on site. There is a restaurant nearby as well.
victor paul v
VerifiedJune 23, 2025 • Stayed at: 59, Loop: Butte
Nice, clean site, with ample room for our 6-person tent (with foyer). Extremely windy location since there's nothing to slow it down as it crosses the valley.
The picnic table had a built-in shade that was much needed. The only sites that had trees for shade were the ones on the south edge.
Dishwash station was great. Restrooms were clean. We did not use the shower facilities, so I have no feedback there.
Cedar Pass Cafe and the gift shop were great for meals and treats.
Ranger program at 9pm was interesting and engaging. They talked about the night sky and brought out telescopes to see the full moon.
This is a great campsite to be nearby hiking trails and other sites to explore along the Badlands loop.
Eliana B
VerifiedJune 23, 2025 • Stayed at: 41, Loop: Butte
Stunning campsite definitely one of my favorite national park campgrounds
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
