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 However, some reviews mention outdated showers and occasional cleanliness issues in the bathrooms, as well as a lack of shade and privacy between sites.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 However, some reviews mention outdated showers and occasional cleanliness issues in the bathrooms, as well as a lack of shade and privacy between sites.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
WILLIAM M
VerifiedMay 13, 2025 • Stayed at: 19, Loop: Agate
The campground and all it's facilities were very clean and well maintained. Directly adjacent to the visitor center. Very convenient to the park.
Bryan G
VerifiedMay 13, 2025 • Stayed at: 93, Loop: Butte
Stayed at Cedar Creek Campground near visitor center and trading post with restaurant. (also saw Sage Creek Campground which has no services and is about 25 miles away).
Clean restrooms. Primitive and hookups. Hardly any trees, but that's the Badlands.
Great place to use to stay and go out to various places to see the Badlands.
Charles L
VerifiedMay 13, 2025 • Stayed at: 90, Loop: Butte
Cedar pass Lodge is very close and has a great shop for snacks and drinks. The Lodge diner is a great alternative for meals. We had dinner and breakfast at the lodge. The campground was at capacity and it was amazing how quiet and polite everyone was. It helps to have crystal clear expectations: there is basically zero tree coverage, it is very dark, wind gusts can be extreme, no firepits. Each campsite has a picnic table with shade from afternoon sun. Star gazing is amazing.
Robert M
VerifiedMay 11, 2025 • Stayed at: 18, Loop: Agate
Wonderful and clean campgrounds. The good cel service and wifi was a nice surprise as well. The hiking opertunities were absolutely beautiful!!
The quarter operated showers was a new idea for us. Mine was fine, and worked good, but my wife's shut off and she added more quarters and it wouldn't come back on.
Robert M
VerifiedMay 11, 2025 • Stayed at: 18, Loop: Agate
Wonderful and clean campgrounds. The good cel service and wifi was a nice surprise as well. The hiking opertunities were absolutely beautiful!!
The quarter operated showers was a new idea for us. Mine was fine, and worked good, but my wife's shut off and she added more quarters and it wouldn't come back on.
Anthony M
VerifiedMay 8, 2025 • Stayed at: 58, Loop: Butte
We arrived after the hours the front gate was staffed, so we selected a site and purchased online. Within about 30 minutes the campground host came by to say hello, and dropped of the tag for the site showing it was reserved for our stay. Everything about the site was fine, and very happy that nobody was running their generators.
Anthony M
VerifiedMay 8, 2025 • Stayed at: 58, Loop: Butte
We arrived after the hours the front gate was staffed, so we selected a site and purchased online. Within about 30 minutes the campground host came by to say hello, and dropped of the tag for the site showing it was reserved for our stay. Everything about the site was fine, and very happy that nobody was running their generators.
Melinda M
VerifiedApril 30, 2025 • Stayed at: Group Loop 1, Loop: Group
Lots to see in the park and surrounding areas. HUGE campsites. But, in this campground a lot of people walk their dogs, even from other campground locations
Melinda M
VerifiedApril 30, 2025 • Stayed at: Group Loop 1, Loop: Group
Lots to see in the park and surrounding areas. HUGE campsites. But, in this campground a lot of people walk their dogs, even from other campground locations
Ericka T
VerifiedApril 22, 2025 • Stayed at: 20, Loop: Agate
Great place to camp. Showers are good and the views are wonderful!
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 4, 2026
