Cedar Pass Campground

Cedar Pass campgound is awesome! 18.99 per night, and the only camping facility actually in Badlands. It's nothing special, I mean this is camping! They have showers, toilets and water and gorgeous views of the park! Which is all you need!

I gave it 5 stars because I think it's the most convenient National Park campground I've come across. Lacks for privacy though but it's still better than staying outside the park. The nighttime view is nearly impossible to beat.

Basic campground. Main Bathroom in middle of campground has clean showers and updated flush toilets. Plenty of trash bins and a campground host. Very windy but beautiful star gazing opportunities. We stayed one night.

5 Stars for location location location. This is the only campground in the actual Badlands National Park. When we arrived we were told someone took our reserved spot, we wouldn’t fit there anyway, and wouldn’t have wanted it since it was next to the dumpster. We were kindly directed to a side road location away from the crowded main campground - it was a beautiful spot with a small tree, a view, grass, and covered picnic tables. No electricity or water but there was a station for water and dumping. We didn’t use the public facilities so I can’t speak to those. The astronomy presentation was great and they gave out patches to the kids. Amazing experience.

“Shaded spots and full hookups” a bit misleading... when you see shade you think trees, well, no trees, picnic tables are shaded. Also when I see FULL hookups, I think water and electric and usually sewage, I must have missed something because we had 50 amp electric but no water. Not only no water but the bath house had pay showers, never seen that before. But hey we had GREAT views!

Respectable camping establishment with a great view.

Pros:
- The View
- Clean functional bathrooms and showers
- Reasonably priced (Approx. $20 CAN)
- Right next to a beautiful trail network

Cons:
- Minimal privacy at the sites (open field)

Pay showers that were just disgusting. Slimy floors, dirty, no place to hang clothes and towels.

Side-of-the-road camp sites. Don't open your awning as it will extend into the road. Saw a lot of sites that were muddy and some had standing water in them. Bad situation for tent campers as there are no tent pads to put a tent. Just pitch your tent in the grass.

I think there are only 20 sites that have electric.

I'd rather stay at a private campground, which I abhor, then this place. Our friends stayed at Badlands Lodge and Campground 1.5 miles away after they found out the electric site they booked at Cedar Pass in Feb, didn't exist. Overbooked by Aramark. Much nicer place with full hook ups.

We arrived to find out we camped in a circle with no real room like parking on the street, other campers constantly coming up to your camper, like right next to you. We have camped in National Parks and State parks before, this was absolutely the worst we have been in. My advice is to avoid this camp.

Great location for exploring Badlands NP. We paid $20 per night with senior pass. Sites are small, right on the loop road and no privacy at all. We had electric, there is water at the dump station. Showers (pay) were not great, no hooks to hang clothes, hot water was intermittent. I would not stay here except for the location.

Web site says open all year but actually closed (Nov 2023)