Best Campgrounds near Philip, SD

This campground is weird in that you pull along the side of the road(like an extended shoulder) through the campground and that's your site. It should be easier to tell in the photo showing the camper and truck. There are some back in sites available, but I think most of them are this weird park on the side of the road type site. The amphitheater nearby sometimes has presentations on the stars/planets/space and brings out telescopes. We did go to one of these while we were there as they were nice enough to have a ranger walk through the campground to tell anybody they saw there would be telescopes out and what time the event started at. We got to see a couple planets and their moons if I remember correctly...likely Jupiter or Venus. It was very nice to stay in the park and have electricity! Most national park campgrounds don't offer sites with electric, but this one did! Nice views of the badlands from the campground! Was hazy due to wildfires.

Really liked this place, had good neighbors and a good time overall. The campgrounds were clean as were the facilities, well worth the money for the convenient location. Great spot to see the blood moon from!

Plenty of sites available! Not too far from the national park or from a town. No matter what site your at it is breathtaking!!

My boy Palo and I camped in my Outback for a night. It was a great experience. They have the cleans best smelling bathrooms I have venture into.

Spent two nights here in the Butte loop. Tried to make reservations on the same day, but they weren’t available to do so I had to just show up and hope there was a site available. We lucked out and got the last electric site. The one quirky thing about the campground is all of the sites are sort of parallel park. So your door will open up onto the pavement. Only paid $46 for two nights thanks to the hubby’s senior pass. Park itself is amazing with beautiful views and we also got to see some Buffalo. The visitor center has a nice gift shop and displays. Showers were $.50 for four minutes and $.75 for six minutes although I only got five minutes for my $.75 and I had a lukewarm water. There is a dump station available as well as potable water.

We camped here on a Sunday night.  Lots of campers along a road which was about 6 miles long along the top of a cliff.  We thought we found a nice spot away from others, but two huge campers pulled in after dinner right next to us on the opposite side of the road.  Beautiful view of the badlands and we enjoyed watching the sunset from our site.  After we went to bed, the wind picked up big time and howled for several hours.  It was strong enough to shake the trailer.  It died down before midnight.  You can't really hike down into the badlands from the cliff so the only place to walk is along the top of the cliff past the other campers.  No services, but free.

This was a free site in the Badlands.  It's a dirt road to get there, washboards, but OK.

The cg is in a prairie dog town so we kept the dog close.

It was full on a Saturday night in September, but we got one of the last sites.  Very basic campground with a few trails to hike.  Views were OK, but nothing great.

Buffalo wandered through camp at dinner time.  We basically camped on the road that circles the campground.

Some picnic tables had a shade covering.  Pit toilets were clean.

Free dispersed camping, with clean vault toilets. no water or power you will have to bring your own. Quiet and tranquil location, Surrounded by prairie dogs as you sit in the valley with low rolling hills around you.

We stayed for 2 nights in the group loop. At first we were sure about the quality of the site - the group loop also serves as the entrance to the dump site - but we’re convinced the site is great. Our site faces into the badlands with a great view, it is very quiet and you are very private (there were no groups around us). The campground is very clean and every evening there is program prepared by the rangers as well as a presentation of the stars.

We would always come back here.

It’s a nice place heading east or west to land for the night. We’ve stayed at sleepy hollow before and find it and the proximity to wall drug a fun landing stop for the night on our trek across SD. Dinner, ice cream and splash pad fun at wall drug is the perfect end to a day on the road for our family.

Fabulous! Views and several spaces both on the edge of grassland dropping off into the badlands wall and farther back. At least 25 campers there last night. It was breathtaking. Do be prepared for I tense wi d; this is prairie with no trees to cut wind. Well worth a visit.

I camping here from 8/15 to 8/21.   Far, the weather has been amazing.  I moved spots about 3 days in.  The first spot was great except for Cell Service (t-mobile) that exact spot was a dead spot.  After moving south one spot about 60 feet, i went from 1-2mb/s to 40-60mb/s.  Roads are rough but do-able I am pulling a 29ft toyhauler with a Chevy silverado 1500.  I cecomend taking the north entrance or if taking the main (by Radio towers) then turn left when you get to the wall.