CCC Campground (ND)
1Heads up1 fire 15 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 25All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
CCC Campground lies in the Badlands of North Dakota. There are a few trails located here. There are 22 sites and 3 campground loops. The campground has 5 reservable sites. This is a pay and scan facility. Ensure that you have Receration.gov app downloaded on your phone prior to arriving. Scan QR code to make payment. This location also excepts cash, use the fee envelopes located at the fee tubes for cash payments. Keep reading
Recreation
Maah Daah Hey Trail that goes for 150 miles, Ends at Burning Coal Vein Campground. Sunset loop which is a short 2-mile hike that connects the Maah Daah Hey Trail and the Long X trail. If you are looking for a day hike, there is a 11-mile loop Maah Daah Hey Trial to the Long X Trail. Where you will see dramatic views of the badlands and prairies of Western North Dakota. The Little Missouri river runs along the northern part of the campground.
Facilities
There are 5 Vault Toilets and water is available at several water spigots throughout the campground. Water is available Memorial day to Labor day. This date depends on the severity of the weather. Picnic tables at each site, fire rings with grill at each site, parking pads up to 60 ft long. Horses are allowed in the Equestrain Loop.
Natural Features
Here you will be surrounded by colorful buttes. During your stay you may have Prong horn, mule and white tail deer going through your site. On rare occasions Big horn sheep can be seen grazing in the area. This area is great for birders, plant enthusiast during the spring and summer months. Perfect all year for the outdoor adventurers.
Nearby Attractions
Right across the river is Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Watford City is a 15 min drive north on HWY 85 for any supplies that you may need.
What the agency tells you
This is a pay and scan facility. Ensure that you have Receration.gov app downloaded on your phone prior to arriving. Scan QR code to make payment. This location also excepts cash, use the fee envelopes located at the fee tubes for cash payments.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 25 · 3 group, 5 equestrian
- Hookups
- 24 electric
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…the campground. Facilities There are 5 Vault Toilets and water is available at several water spigots…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Facilities There are 5 Vault Toilets and water is available at several water spigots throughout the campground.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Hiking
- Horse Camping
- Mountain biking
- Wildlife viewing
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:27 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:27 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
25 sites
All 25 sites
| Equestrian Loop | 1 | group equestrian | 20/30/50 amp |
| Equestrian Loop | 2 | equestrian electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| Equestrian Loop | 3 | equestrian electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| Equestrian Loop | 4 | equestrian electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| Equestrian Loop | 5 | equestrian electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 15 | group standard electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 16 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 17 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 18 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 19 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 20 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 21 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 22 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 23 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 24 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| RV Loop | 25 | rv electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| Tent Loop | 10 | group standard electric | 20/30 amp |
| Tent Loop | 11 | standard electric | 20/30 amp |
| Tent Loop | 12 | standard electric | 20/30 amp |
| Tent Loop | 13 | standard electric | 20/30 amp |
| Tent Loop | 14 | standard electric | 20/30 amp |
| Tent Loop | 6 | standard electric | 20/30/50 amp |
| Tent Loop | 7 | standard electric | 20/30 amp |
| Tent Loop | 8 | standard electric | 20/30 amp |
| Tent Loop | 9 | standard electric | 20/30 amp |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Juniper Campground Group Site (ND)Theodore Roosevelt National Park · 2.7 mi
Juniper Campground (ND)Theodore Roosevelt National Park · 3.0 mi
Summit Campground3.6 mi
Bennett CampgroundLittle Missouri National Grassland · 7.5 mi
Magpie CampgroundLittle Missouri National Grassland · 21 mi
Sather Lake Recreation AreaLittle Missouri National Grassland · 26 miThe CCC Campground is loacated off of hwy 85
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Watford City, ND
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 6°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
CCC Campground (ND) is in North Dakota’s at-large congressional district. Its representative, Julie Fedorchak (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →