Cedar Pass Campground

20681 South Dakota Highway 240, Interior, South Dakota, United States
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The Badlands
Twilight in the Badlands
Cedar Pass Campground
Big Horn Sheep

Featured amenities

Pet Friendly Pet Friendly
Picnic Table Picnic Table
Restrooms Restrooms
Showers Showers
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About Cedar Pass Campground

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.

Available sites

83 total sites
RV Sites 54 sites Check Availability Tent Sites 29 sites Check Availability

Seasonal information

2026 (Current year)

2026 Season availability

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Campground Amenities

Most popular amenities

Pet friendly Pet friendly
Picnic Table Picnic Table
Restrooms Restrooms
Showers Showers
RV Utilities and Hookups

RV Utilities and Hookups

  • Dump station on site
Water and Hygiene

Water and Hygiene

  • Restrooms
  • Showers
Cooking and Fire

Cooking and Fire

  • Picnic Table
Pets and Policies

Pets and Policies

  • Pet friendly
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Rates, Sites & Availability

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83 Sites Available

Site
Price
⛺ 1, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 10, Loop: Agate RV
Pet Friendly · 30 × 18 ft
🚐 12, Loop: Agate RV
30 × 12 ft
🚐 13, Loop: Agate RV
30 × 16 ft
🚐 14, Loop: Agate RV
30 × 12 ft
🚐 15, Loop: Agate RV
50 × 13 ft
🚐 16, Loop: Agate RV
50 × 12 ft
🚐 17, Loop: Agate RV
60 × 12 ft
🚐 18, Loop: Agate RV
50 × 15 ft
🚐 19, Loop: Agate RV
55 × 16 ft
⛺ 2, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 20, Loop: Agate RV
55 × 18 ft
🚐 21, Loop: Agate RV
55 × 15 ft
🚐 22, Loop: Agate RV
55 × 12 ft
🚐 23, Loop: Agate RV
50 × 12 ft
🚐 24, Loop: Agate RV
30 × 18 ft
🚐 25, Loop: Agate RV
45 × 12 ft
🚐 26, Loop: Agate RV
40 × 12 ft
🚐 27, Loop: Agate RV
Pet Friendly · 50 × 17 ft
🚐 28, Loop: Agate RV
Pet Friendly · 50 × 10 ft
⛺ 29, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 3, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 30, Loop: Agate RV
Pet Friendly · 35 × 13 ft
⛺ 31, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 32, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 33, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 34, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 35, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 36, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 38, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 39, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 4, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 40, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 55 × 13 ft
🚐 41, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 55 × 12 ft
🚐 43, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 55 × 14 ft
🚐 45, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 50 × 12 ft
⛺ 5, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 58, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 59, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 6, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 60, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐 61, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐 62, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 55 ft long
🚐 63, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 50 ft long
🚐 64, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐 65, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
⛺ 66, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 67, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 68, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 45 ft long
⛺ 69, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 7, Loop: Agate RV
Pet Friendly · 35 × 11 ft
🚐 70, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 55 ft long
⛺ 71, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 72, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 73, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐 74, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 35 ft long
⛺ 75, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 76, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐 77, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 45 ft long
🚐 78, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐 79, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
⛺ 8, Loop: Agate Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 80, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 65 ft long
🚐 81, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐 82, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 60 ft long
🚐 83, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 55 ft long
🚐 84, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐 85, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 65 ft long
🚐 86, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐 87, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 65 ft long
⛺ 88, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
⛺ 89, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 90, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 35 ft long
⛺ 91, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 92, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 30 ft long
⛺ 93, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 94, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 30 ft long
⛺ 95, Loop: Butte Tent
Pet Friendly
🚐 96, Loop: Butte RV
Pet Friendly · 40 ft long
🚐 Group Loop 1, Loop: Group RV
Pet Friendly
🚐 Group Loop 2, Loop: Group RV
Pet Friendly
🚐 Group Loop 3, Loop: Group RV
Pet Friendly
🚐 Group Loop 4, Loop: Group RV
Pet Friendly

Reviews

910 reviews

Summary

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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.

Based on guest feedback

4.3

Overall rating

Based on 910 reviews

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5 stars 57.7% (525)
4 stars 25.9% (236)
3 stars 9.9% (90)
2 stars 3.8% (35)
1 star 2.6% (24)

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Marie S

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September 17, 2026 Stayed at: 67, Loop: Butte

Small sites with no privacy or tree cover. Pretty scenery but not an ideal campsite

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Jeffrey B

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September 18, 2026 Stayed at: 68, Loop: Butte

Nice older campground. But we were there, the days were very hot with little shade. However, the nights were nice and cool with amazing star viewing. I do feel that reduced hours for generators should be considered, as nothing ruins a quiet day/evening like a noisy generator.

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Nancy U

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September 18, 2026 Stayed at: 43, Loop: Butte

Cedar Pass has nice sites with great views. Restrooms were spotless. Best of all, it was a short walk to amazing amphitheater programs every night. Get an electric site. They need to have more electric sites.

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Marc J

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September 18, 2026 Stayed at: 93, Loop: Butte

We loved it!!!

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Susan K

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September 19, 2026 Stayed at: 40, Loop: Butte

We had a non-electric site for our 20 ft travel trailer. First the site was tight, with our trailer parked in the "pull-through" spot and the RV directly across the road from us, it was a tight fit for any trailer coming around the loop trying to fit between us. Then the site wasn't level. It was the only place on our entire month long trip where we needed to level the trailer sideways.
Other than that the location was great, with a beautiful sunset view and gorgeous views of the sunrise. Deer calmly wandering through. Easy access to the nighttime ranger program and night sky presentation. The visitor center and trailheads to the best trails were nearby.

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Jennifer J

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September 19, 2026 Stayed at: 19, Loop: Agate

Great, easily accessible sites, clean bathrooms and beautiful scenery.

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David W

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September 19, 2026 Stayed at: 60, Loop: Butte

Really enjoyed the spaciousness of the campground. Also liked seeing the wild horses near the river. How exciting to see the bison walk right through the campground!

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Donald G

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September 20, 2026 Stayed at: 45, Loop: Butte

No complaint. Just advise if you're tent camping to be prepared for wind and probably stick to lower profile tents.

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Elizabeth S

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September 21, 2026 Stayed at: 63, Loop: Butte

This campground needs a Camp Host to oversee operations and to provide a presence regarding the rules. Unlike the other National Park campgrounds that we have camped at with a Camp Host, many people ran their RV generators at night, thus it was quite noisy. There were two campers right next to us smoking as well. The scenery is beautiful and the campground itself okay and basic. The sites are really close to each other, so all of these rude campers really impacted the overall camping experience.

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Amit M

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September 21, 2026 Stayed at: 29, Loop: Agate

Great

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Location & Directions for Cedar Pass Campground

20681 South Dakota Highway 240, Interior, SD 57750 United States

Elevation: 736 ft

Nearest town

Interior, SD - 2.4 mi

About 5 min to downtown

Highway access

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.

Near Badlands National Park

The closest entrance is: Interior Entrance

Approximate drive: 0.5 mi · 1 min

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: November 4, 2026

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