Red Trail Campground

There are a lot of people coming and going at this busy family operated campground. Sites are fairly close, not much privacy. Bathrooms, showers and laundry on site, all of which were maintained adequately. It is a short walk to downtown Medora. Campground is within the town and across from residences. Upon check-in, a staff member escorts you to your site and directs you where to park. Mixture of grass sites and gravel sites. Cell signal is adequate. Garbage and dump station on site. Small convenience store on property with essentials.

We checked in today and were met by rude registration staff followed by a deranged woman employee who screamed commands laced with sarcasm and condescension as I tried to back the camper into our site. When I tried to politely explain that I had backed the camper successfully for years, she suggested I go camp somewhere else. We did leave and landed happily at a much nicer and kinder campground that wasnt covered in fleas. They also made it quite clear that there would be no refund. We visited North Park Campground, no overnight stay.

This campground is perfectly located for visiting the TRNP, Painted Canyon and the town of Medora has nice offerings for entertainment and western history and way of life. The campground is decent with a small store, nice laundry machines and the restrooms are decent and clean but could use a little sprucing up.

Nice family owned

Walking distance to downtown and very short drive to the national park! The site was kind of unlevel but the laundry machines were great!

We love this campground. My husband and I and another couple come to Medora every Labor Day weekend for the musical. We have always stayed at another campground, but this year that campground was booked. We called Red Trail and they had 2 open sites. We will be going back to Red Trail from now on. The staff are so helpful and kind. The campground itself is very cozy and we loved all the trees!

The campground was well maintained and meet all my expectations. No problems with the wifi. Hoped to see the Medora Musical, but it didn't start until the second week in June.

Clean, good bathrooms, nice picnic table. River is a mess to get to, WI-FI is as bad as I’ve experienced anywhere (don’t know if I was ever on their Wi-Fi during our 3 days there, light pollution was horrific in our site with street lamp.

Fires are allowed and firewood sold but no fire pits.

All in all this campground was a good choice but not a great experience . One of it’s positives is also one of it’s negatives. Being a downtown campground it’s easy to walk to. However, it is in a residential neighborhood so nature is NOT in the house. The campsites are very close together and the roads are packed dirt so it can get dusty.

I read some reviews about how “bossy” one of the managers can be with customers. I had a few conversations with “her” and she was easy to work with and friendly.

My biggest concern is a lack of presence of a staff member during the night and the early morning. I went to shower about 7:30 and I was horrified to see that the toilet had backed up and came out of the drain on the shower floor. It was almost an hour until the store opened and I could report it.

Cute family run campground. Pet friendly, close to town, nice little store and friendly! Each site has a grill and picnic table. Most sites gravel - our site was very level. Water pressure is good!

We stayed at Red Trail campground in Medora, ND in September 2021. This is a great little park right outside Theodore Roosevelt National park. We stayed on an end site that was large and spacious with FHU. This park is dusty when the wind starts to blow but other than that, we enjoyed our stay here. Very well managed by a cheerful staff that go to great lengths to help you get your rig in safely before they leave you to set up camp. This was by far one of the easiest parks to negotiate in and out of with a big rig and is a great stop when visiting the Theodore Roosevelt National park. I would definatly recommend this park for a carefree visit to North Dakota. To see videos on this park and others, please visit our YouTube channel: Jeff & Steff’s Excellent Adventure.

It was a well organized campground with electricity and water. The connections to sewer were all booked up. It was a busy place and the spaces were close, but the bathrooms and showers were clean. The playground was great for my son. We even got a free gift for staying! The host were friendly, but the store prices were really high. They had excellent WiFi.

Sites are level and fairly close together (we had an end site). Water and 50 Amp electric was fine. Great location as its a very quick walk into downtown Medora. It is far from a resort, but if you’re staying in Medora, you’re there to see the National Park anyway, not hang out at your camper.

Pretty cool to camp in the badlands...

Great host family. Front desk was very helpful. They escorted us to our spot. Playground was large and great for our kids (1,2,4,&8). Showers were clean and open late. C store was a lifesaver!!! Oh and you get a guest gift. We will be back!!!

We had trouble finding a campground near Theadore Roosevelt NP and had to settle on this one. It was in Medora,SD and the spaces were extremely close to each other. It was a convent to get to the NP and the staff there was very friendly. They could use some maintainer and cleaning on their bath house. It was had spiderwebs everywhere and was not very clean. They had full hook-ups and some spots with just water. This campground was geared more for people staying only a few nights to watch the towns musical MEDORA not really for camping.

Small, family-run campground

This campground was good. There are 2 campsites with full hookups, that includes electric. But it was taken by RV campers when I got there. The sites there are family run.They don't maintain the campground very well. The showers were really clean and the site was pretty clean too. The site s fill up very quickly so you should go pretty early. I went at 9 in the morning and the sites were almost filled already. The sites are really big an can fit 3 5 person tents.

We stayed at the Red Trail Campground in Medora, North Dakota, the last weekend in April 2016. This private campground is quite large for such a small town, but during the off-season there are only about 15 sites available. The sites are primitive through electric, water, and sewer hookups. Cable was available for $5 more. We did not pay for it. Somehow, the Wi-Fi is not available in the off-season, even though the signal is there... in other words, even though it is advertised for this campground, they will not give you the password until May 15. That was a bit frustrating for us as we planned to be able to post photos and blog from the campground during the evening. The site itself was small. We have a 17' travel trailer that just fit, with a picnic table next to it. Our site did not have a grill at it, but there were several empty sites that had portable charcoal grills available so we were allowed to move one to our location. There is a shower house, but it is another amenity that is closed during the off-season, so we cannot give our opinion on that service. We never saw an adult owner during our stay. The oldest son was in charge of our check in, guiding us to the site, explaining that there was no Wi-Fi in April, and taking our money, which was cash and check ONLY, NO CREDIT CARDS. In addition, although it is a Good Sam park, we we not able to get a discount for membership because it was "off-season prices". Although the young man was friendly and helpful, we would have felt more secure in our stay speaking with someone over 18 on the premises. The location to Theodore Roosevelt National Park was the main reason for our stay, and for this we were not disappointed. The campground is located near the BNSF railroad tracks, so expect to hear an occasional train pass by (including horn blares). In general, the campground is located away from the main roads, so it was quite quiet besides the trains, and we had a very nice bluff view behind us at our site.