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$30 - $60 / night
"Nice campground, good roads and pull through spots, wide enough to use picnic tables and have enough room for truck. Ample bathrooms and laundry room was great."
"We rolled up late in the day and they had plenty of tent sites available. Beautiful views and a nice path to sit next to the little Missouri! Fire pits are shared."
"Nice fair size camp, nice shop for necessities, decent shower, 43$ with electric,"
$40 / night
"Stayed here while visiting Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The location is great as the park entrance is just a few miles away, along with the gateway town of Medora."
"Very close to neighbors and site 7 is very hard to get level. We had to buy more leveling blocks. We're pro members and couldn't figure out how to get the pro discount. No tables or fire rings."
$42 / night
"The sights are level and easy to park. There are no restrooms or dumpsters on site. All the neighbors and campers were friendly. Wi fi worked great."
"This is a bone basic FULL HOOK UP (water, sewer, electric) campground with rock solid smoking fast T-Mobile 5G."
$12 - $54 / night
"There is no dump station at the park, nor in Glendive, so you have to drive to Miles City or Wibaux to dump. We found a Cenex in Miles City that had a good dump station and it was free."
"The campground is non-electric, so remember that if you like to run your AC when it is 100+! Luckily, a rain shower cooled it off for us. There were only a handful of people staying there."
"Fun little spot in the middle of the Great Plains of western North Dakota.
Just off Highway 85 at Amidon, ND. Population 25!
Great one nighter or a very quiet longer stay. Come prepared!"
"We’d been staying in State parks the last few weeks, with deep toilets and showers that require quarters. Here we had flushable toilets, HOT showers with good pressure and free laundry!"
LegendNice campground, good roads and pull through spots, wide enough to use picnic tables and have enough room for truck. Ample bathrooms and laundry room was great. ATM and cash change machine in room, dryers are fantastic. Great staff at front desk with late hours. We had emergency truck repair and needed to stay an extra day,,,staff was very helpful and made it work. Lots of sites here, some are shaded…others are full sun. Lots of different options available, RV, tent, cabin, wagon.
Good recreation for kids, basketball/volleyball/gaga ball and city pool at front of campground $5/person. Medora is a small town, easy to bike or walk. No grocery store, only small convenience store so make sure you stock up if you are staying for a few days.
National park entrance South is next door and scenic trail drive is about 2 hours round trip (there is construction so one part of road is shut down…no loop…you have to turn around).
GuideFun little spot in the middle of the Great Plains of western North Dakota.
Just off Highway 85 at Amidon, ND. Population 25!
Great one nighter or a very quiet longer stay. Come prepared! No groceries except in small store in Bowman 21 miles away.
No trains no trucks!
We had a couple beers and a good pizza in Mo’s Bunker Bar just steps away from our trailer.
Nine average to small size spaces with water, electric, and sewer! $35
A younger couple bought this in 2006 and have done some hard work to renovate a basement into a bar . It is a sight to see and play darts or pool and have pizza or root beer floats!
Nice clean bathrooms and private showers with wonderful hot water. Laundry was available.
We just happened to show up on the first day of the Slope County 101 Annual Fair and rodeo. Got to mix with local people. Corn hole games, FFA auction, exhibits and games!
There was a demonstration of a 100 year old steam power engine and a combine working as kids threw wheat shafts on the conveyor.
White Butte, the high point of ND is very close! A mile or so hike to the top!
GuideStayed here while visiting Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The location is great as the park entrance is just a few miles away, along with the gateway town of Medora. Reservation and check in was all digital which was nice. There is no office on site, but we didn’t need anything. The owner is very responsive to messages. Great views of the surrounding area. WiFi was decent as was Verizon cell service. Full hookups for RV and everything worked great. Only thing that left us wanting a little bit was the spots were a bit close together and there are no picnic tables or fire rings. The price per night was lower than other campgrounds though. Overall great experience and would stay there again.
TravelerWe stayed in site 12, which was rated as an RV campsite, it was pull through, but the hosts said mainly they use that area of the campground for tents with the RVs across the street (RV sites 1 - 9). If you are tent camping, the upper sites are really nice and secluded (20s - 30s). RVs cannot make it to sites 20s - 30s because it is a narrow dirt road to the top.
It's dry camping - no RV hookups, but at the visitor's center they have a water fill station that is free. You can pull in and fill up your RV water tank. There is no dump station at the park, nor in Glendive, so you have to drive to Miles City or Wibaux to dump. We found a Cenex in Miles City that had a good dump station and it was free.
The sites were spacious, clean and affordable. Sites 11 & 13 had a nice view. The bathrooms were pit toilets. Very clean. No running water. Camp fires are permitted.
The camp hosts were really helpful and friendly.
We spent one day in Makoshika hiking the trails with our dog. We felt that 1 day was sufficient, but you could easily spend more time to enjoy the park, take some longer hikes, or play disc golf. The other day we took a drive to North Dakota to check out Theodore Roosevelt National Park, about an hour drive away. Well worth the drive. We stopped at Beaver Creek Brewery on the way back to the campsite and brought back a growler for around the campfire.
They said next year they plan on expanding the campsites and adding in some full hook-up RV sites and a dump station. Even without that, we plan on coming back.
I'd book in advance if you are planning on going over a weekend. The campsites were all booked when we arrived. We reserved our spot about 3 weeks prior.
ScoutSpace is pretty tight here. We grabbed two sites, side by side. 305 and 306. We had a 3-person tent and a small pop-up camper. Not much room at all (see photo). There was basically enough room to share a picnic table and that was it. I will say the tent camping non-electric sites were bigger and grassier. But if you need power, you're stuck in a pull-through that offers very little privacy. Also, there is not enough room for both a tent and a vehicle, so we settled on parking the long way across the back and straddled the road.
The facilities were well maintained though. Check-in was a breeze. The staff were friendly. Super convenient location to everything - national park, musical, steak fry, downtown. All very nice.
TravelerWe rolled up late in the day and they had plenty of tent sites available. Beautiful views and a nice path to sit next to the little Missouri! Fire pits are shared.
LegendTried to stay inside TRNP next door but learned quickly there weren’t any hookups. This place had some harsh reviews on Campendium app however we found it delightful. The biggest woe here is that the sites are extremely tight. Our site was a pull in from one road, and the neighbors sites was a pull in from the parallel road, leaving us to share space - literally two picnic tables next to one another. Other than that though, gorgeous scenery well maintained sidewalks that you can hike or bike right into town. A public dog park at the end of the street. And our section was brand new. The electric poles were new. The sewer hookup at our site seemed a bit big but we have an adapter. Overall would highly recommend if in Medora!
GuideWe stayed in a tent with electricity. The tent site was on the back stretch with the badlands as a backdrop. There was not a fire ring at the campsite but we didn’t feel like we were missing anything. Our site was extremely small wIth no room for our camp chairs. Alao, there was some inconsistency in sizes of the tent area sites. Bathrooms were clean. Showers were alright, they could use some work on the ventilation.
GuideWe’d been staying in State parks the last few weeks, with deep toilets and showers that require quarters. Here we had flushable toilets, HOT showers with good pressure and free laundry! We also liked having the bar on site to grab snacks, drinks, food etc. Also there was cool stuff to see! There’s a one room schoolhouse exhibit across the road at the fairgrounds. White Butte (tallest point in North Dakota) is a great hike super close. You can also get to Medora for TRNP or Regent for the Enchanted Highway in about an hour. Very centrally located.
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