Beaver Creek Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 8All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Beaver Creek Campground is a remote and quiet eight site campground located along Beaver Creek on the Wyoming and South Dakota border. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (661) 702-1420.
What the agency tells you
FYI: During the off season (from 10/01 until 12/15) the USFS operates this campground. Their information is listed below: Black Hills National Forest / Hell Canyon Ranger District 1019 North 5th Street, Custer, SD 57730 Phone 605.673.9200 www.fs.usda.gov/r02/blackhills0 Daily Fee is $0.00 per First Come First Served campsite of which there are 8 available. Campsites are located outside of the main campground gate. Closes 12/15th. The stay limit is 14 days in a 28 day period. Parking Spur Length is 45 ft. Drinking water is NOT available. Each site has a picnic table and a fire ring. Vault toilets are also available. Garbage and Trash "Pack It In Pack It Out" at all times. Please note that roads are not maintained during the off-season. Sites are open until weather prohibits access or closed on the date noted above. The information listed below is pertinent during the open season from May 15th to September 30th.
These campsites are non-electric sites. Generators may run from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. only.
Non-reservable sites may be available on a first come-first served basis
Everything else this campground posts · 7
A pet fee of $2 per pet per night is required upon check in. Pets must be leashed, under control and attended at all times.
· The Senior and Access discounts are only honored for the site that houses the card holder. · If multiple sites are reserved on one card, the rest of the camping fee will be collected upon arrival unless another card holder occupies the site.
During off season, fewer site may be available.
Drinking water is available but you CANNOT hook up for filling.
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment, and tires before using lake or trails
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
In accordance with standard industry practices, ExplorUS will be assessing an additional vehicle fee of $5.00 per night on the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in any double family campsite, provided these vehicles are not joined to the first vehicle by a hitch and towed onto the site. In the case of motorcycles, the first two are considered to be one vehicle and the third and fourth are also considered to be one vehicle. No additional vehicle fees are collected for bicycles.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 8
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 1 of 8 sites
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Night sky · 8th darkest of 52 in SD
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 34 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
“In accordance with standard industry practices, ExplorUS will be assessing an additional vehicle fee of $5.00 per night on the second vehicle in each single family campsite, and on the third and fourth vehicle in any…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
8 sites
All 8 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 8 of the 8 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Beaver Creek | 1 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | $22 |
| Beaver Creek | 2 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $22 |
| Beaver Creek | 3 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | $22 |
| Beaver Creek | 4 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $22 |
| Beaver Creek | 5 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $22 |
| Beaver Creek | 6 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $22 |
| Beaver Creek | 7 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | $22 |
| Beaver Creek | 8 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $22 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Bearlodge Campground0.0 miBlack Fox Campground0.0 mi
Black Hills Off-Season Campgrounds0.0 mi
Castle Peak Campground0.0 mi
Custer Trail Campground0.0 mi
Ditch Creek Campground0.0 miThe agency publishes this point for 13 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lead, SD
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 50°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 15°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Beaver Creek Campground is in South Dakota’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Dusty Johnson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →