Castle Peak Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Season
- January 1Opens January 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The Castle Peak Campground has nine camp sites. Restroom facilities are available. The campground is in a quiet, remote location along Castle Creek in a scenic canyon with large spruce trees. Castle Peak Campground Layout Reservations are not available for Castle Peak Campground. Sites are available first come, first served. See the layout of the campground to find your perfect camping site. Download
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Restroom facilities are available.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($22), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
DutchmanBlack Hills National Forest · 4.7 mi
WhitetailBlack Hills National Forest · 6.0 miBlack Fox CampgroundBlack Hills National Forest · 7.4 mi
Roubaix LakeBlack Hills National Forest · 8.8 mi
Pactola Reservoir CampgroundBlack Hills National Forest · 9.7 miDitch Creek CampgroundBlack Hills National Forest · 10 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hill City, SD
Typical weather
Typical January night 11°F, day 36°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical January night 11°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 moreOutside the published season
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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Castle Peak 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 →