East Totten Trail Campground (ND)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14–$22Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 40All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
East Totten Trail Campground is located on the west banks of Lake Audubon. This is the only campground on the entire lake! This campground and day use area offers a wide variety of recreation activities, including boating, fishing, swimming, hiking, mountain biking, scuba diving, wildlife viewing, and bird watching. In the winter time the area offers excellent access for ice fishing and other outdoor recreational opportunites. For more information, please visit the Lake Sakakawea / Garrison Project website here . Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Audubon offers excellent boating, swimming, and fishing opportunities. Anglers fish for walleye, sauger, northern pike, muskie, white bass, small and large mouth bass, bluegill, crappie. Chinook salmon can be found in the neighboring lake of Lake Sakakawea only a stone's throw away across the hwy from Lake Audubon. The area offers a wide variety of outdoor recreational opportunities. The campground is next to the Audubon Wildlife Management Area and offers hunting opportunities. Audubon Lake, a sister lake to Lake Sakakawea, was also formed with the construction of the Garrison Dam near Riverdale, N.D. The two lakes are separated by an embankment, which carries US Highway 83. Audubon Lake makes up most of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Audubon National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge and Audubon National Wildlife Complex are named in honor of John James Audubon, a naturalist and wildlife painter during the 19th century. Audubon spent the summer of 1843 collecting bird specimens and painting pictures of northern plains wildlife in the area.
Facilities
The campground consists of 30 campsites with electric hookups and developed concrete or gravel pads and 10 primitive campsites, each with a fire ring/grill. Amenities include new vault toilets, fish cleaning station, boat ramp, shoreline access area, fill and dump station, and paved roadways in the area.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a nice grassy area with some trees with the beautiful lake view from almost every campsite. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (701) 654-7411.
Nearby Attractions
The Audubon National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center is located just 3 miles away on the south shore of Lake Audubon off Hwy. 83 The visitor center offers a variety of guided tours and environmental education programs. The Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery is just a few minutes from the Campground near Riverdale, ND and is open to the public. It has a Visitor Center, complete with five 400-gallon aquariums, provides great opportunities to view the fish of North Dakota in their environment. The Garrison Dam Power Plant does offer walking tours during the months of June, July, and the first part of August on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 2pm.
Charges & Cancellations
Reservation changes and cancellations can be made on Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. For more information on rules and policies regarding reservation cancellations and changes, please visit: https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies .
What the agency tells you
For Reservations please call, 1-877-444-6777
For park ranger staff call, (701) 654-7411
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Only one camping unit (RV/tent) is allowed per campsite; doubling up is not permitted. Other local rules may apply.
OHV's, Golf Carts, ATV's are NOT allowed within Campground.
Cash and Check are not accepted onsite at this location. Reservations may be made the same day by using a credit card by calling, or visiting recreation.gov
Check out time is 3:00 pm. Check in time is 4:00 pm.
For a map of Lake Sakakawea, click here (PDF).
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 40
- Hookups
- 30 electric
- Paved pads
- 5 of 40
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…a fire ring/grill. Amenities include new vault toilets, fish cleaning station, boat ramp, shoreline access…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Cross Country Skiing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Ice Fishing
- Ice Skating
- Jet Skiing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Mountain biking
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.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $14–$22 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking, plus the agency’s published $4 weekend rate on Friday and Saturday. 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.
“Reservation changes and cancellations can be made on Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. For more information on rules and policies regarding reservation cancellations and changes, please visit: https://www.recreation.gov/rules-reservation-policies.” · this campground’s own terms
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 Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
40 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 40 mapped sitesAll 40 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. 40 of the 40 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Pike | 031 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | under 10 ft | $14 | ||
| Pike | 032 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | under 10 ft | $14 | ||
| Pike | 033 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | under 10 ft | $14 | ||
| Pike | 034 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | under 10 ft | $14 | ||
| Pike | 035 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 37 ft | $14 | ||
| Pike | 036 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 77 ft | $14 | ||
| Pike | 037 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 195 ft | $14 | ||
| Pike | 038 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 177 ft | $14 | ||
| Pike | 039 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 159 ft | $14 | ||
| Pike | 040 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 136 ft | $14 | ||
| Walleye | 001 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | yes | 66 ft | 275 ft | $22 |
| Walleye | 002 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 54 ft | 289 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 003 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 55 ft | 225 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 004 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 54 ft | 250 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 005 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 55 ft | 208 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 006 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 49 ft | 207 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 007 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 59 ft | 157 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 008 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 49 ft | 163 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 009 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 51 ft | 98 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 010 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 54 ft | 115 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 011 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 51 ft | 49 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 012 | standard electric | 50 amp | 54 ft | 61 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 013 | standard electric | 50 amp | 67 ft | under 10 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 014 | standard electric | 50 amp | 76 ft | under 10 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 015 | standard electric | 50 amp | 59 ft | under 10 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 016 | standard electric | 50 amp | 47 ft | under 10 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 017 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 52 ft | 36 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 018 | standard electric | 50 amp | 47 ft | under 10 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 019 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 52 ft | 75 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 020 | standard electric | 50 amp | 52 ft | 29 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 021 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 50 ft | 103 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 022 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 50 ft | 55 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 023 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 47 ft | 128 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 024 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 50 ft | 69 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 025 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 47 ft | 150 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 026 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 47 ft | 70 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 027 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 62 ft | 145 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 028 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 47 ft | 64 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 029 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 58 ft | 43 ft | $22 | |
| Walleye | 030 | standard electric | 30/50 amp | 58 ft | 14 ft | $22 |
25 of 40 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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CCC Campground (ND)Little Missouri National Grassland · 94 mi- From Bismarck, ND: Travel north on US-83 for approximately 65 miles, turn right onto 14th St. NW and travel 0.5 miles until you reach the campground.
- From Minot, ND: Travel south on US-83 for approximately 44 miles then turn left onto 14th St. NW, travel 0.5 miles until you reach the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Coleharbor, ND
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 2°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
East Totten Trail 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 →