Wallashuck
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 3 of the next 3 nights read 16:24 UTC
- A night
- $20–$24Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 8379 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Wallashuck Campground is located on Lake Red Rock, Iowa’s largest lake. It is just 10 minutes from Pella, known for its Dutch heritage, and 15 minutes from Knoxville, the Sprint car capital of the world. Visitors enjoy boating, fishing, hiking, biking and viewing wildlife. For more information regarding the Army Corps of Engineers and the Lake Red Rock Project, click here: Lake Red Rock Website Recreation Lake Red Rock offers excellent boating, water skiing and swimming opportunities. Miles of water trails for kayakers and canoeists are designated along the shoreline. Anglers will find crappie, largemouth and striped bass,walleye, channel and flathead catfish, northern pike and bluegill. Several miles of trails for hiking and biking are in the area. The 15 mile paved Volksweg Trail stretches west from Pella to the Des Moines River and to the Cordova Recreation Area. Keep reading
Facilities
Wallashuck offers 83 campsites with electric hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A playground is also provided.
Natural Features
Lake Red Rock is situated on the Des Moines River. Hardwood forests cover the lake shore at Wallashuck, offering shade and scenic views. Wildlife is abundant around the lake. A wide variety of waterfowl, including the American White Pelican, migrates through the area in spring and fall. Bald eagles can be observed from November through March. White-tailed deer , turkeys and other small animals are commonly viewed around the lake. Contact Info For local information, please call (641) 628-1397 or call (641) 828-7522 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Des Moines, Iowa's capital, is an hour away, with numerous shopping and dining opportunities, museums and the Blank Park Zoo.
Charges & Cancellations
A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amound. Cancel or change reservations through recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees.
What the agency tells you
Wallashuck does not have a reservation window. You MUST have a reservation prior to occupying a site.
Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check-out time is 2:00 p.m.
The fee booth is open 7 days per week: Monday through Thursday: 3:00 - 7:00 pm. Friday through Sunday: 9:00 - 11:00 am & 3:00 - 7:00 pm. Fee Booth phone number: (641) 628-1397.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
We offer a limited supply of firewood at the campground. If you want to ensure you have firewood for your stay, please plan on bringing your own supply. Travelers entering Iowa are strongly encouraged to leave out-of-state firewood behind.
Camping units are restricted to one wheeled unit and two tents, or three tents per site. A maximum of eight persons per campsite is allowed.
Parking or driving on the grass is not allowed. Boat trailers may be parked on the grass.
Golf carts, UTVs, and ATVs are not permitted.
Kiddie pools, slip-and-slides, and similar water-based play equipment are not permitted.
Bounce houses and similar inflatable play equipment are not permitted.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 83
- Hookups
- 79 electric
- Longest rig
- 71 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 83
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 74 of 83 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- “…hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station. A playground is also provided.…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Visitor center
- Night sky · 12th darkest of 32 in IA
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 29 km away
- Patchy color
15 of 158 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:24 UTC
recreation.gov lists 79 of the 83 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$24 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.
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amound.” · 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
83 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 79 mapped sitesAll 83 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. 79 of the 83 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| PGRO | 61 | standard electric | 61 ft | 30 amp | 94 ft | 825 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 62 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 898 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 63 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 961 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 64 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 941 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 65 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 76 ft | 1,024 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 66 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 69 ft | 968 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 67 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 1,049 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 68 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 73 ft | 1,081 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 69 | standard electric | 49 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 1,084 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 70 | standard electric | 51 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 1,072 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 71 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 1,004 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 72 | standard electric | 51 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 996 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 73 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 937 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 74 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 925 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 75 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 966 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 76 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 1,036 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 77 | standard electric | 32 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 977 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 78 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 833 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 79 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 788 ft | $20–$24 | |
| PGRO | 80 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 761 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 50 | standard electric | 62 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 1,147 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 51 | type not stated | 64 ft | 50 amp | 1,039 ft | |||
| WALLASHUCK | 52 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 1,141 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 53 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 1,052 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 54 | standard electric | 53 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 1,158 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 55 | standard electric | 56 ft | 50 amp | 82 ft | 1,084 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 56 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 1,164 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 57 | standard electric | 71 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 1,104 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 58 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 58 ft | 1,189 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 59 | standard electric | 58 ft | 50 amp | 75 ft | 1,126 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 60 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 1,221 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 60A | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 1,268 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 60B | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 1,308 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WALLASHUCK | 60C | type not stated | 59 ft | 50 amp | 1,283 ft | |||
| WOOD | 01 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 1,582 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 02 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 85 ft | 1,641 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 03 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 1,660 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 04 | standard electric | 64 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 1,661 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 05 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 1,723 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 06 | standard electric | 68 ft | 30 amp | yes | 77 ft | 1,698 ft | $20–$24 |
| WOOD | 07 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 1,639 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 08 | standard electric | 47 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 1,582 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 09 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 1,522 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 10 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 1,386 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 11 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 71 ft | 1,473 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 12 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 1,340 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 13 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 1,288 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 14 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 119 ft | 1,171 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 15 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 1,135 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 16 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 1,084 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 17 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 1,189 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 18 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 1,134 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 19 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 1,250 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 20 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 79 ft | 1,202 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 21 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 1,309 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 22 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 78 ft | 1,120 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 23 | standard electric | 55 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 1,145 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 24 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 1,043 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 25 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 61 ft | 1,084 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 26 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 72 ft | 973 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 27 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 916 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 28 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 859 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 29 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 790 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 30 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 68 ft | 746 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 31 | type not stated | 55 ft | 50 amp | 738 ft | |||
| WOOD | 32 | type not stated | 62 ft | 50 amp | 776 ft | |||
| WOOD | 33 | standard electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 802 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 34 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 82 ft | 843 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 35 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 853 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 36 | standard electric | 39 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 929 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 37 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 74 ft | 899 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 38 | standard electric | 49 ft | 30 amp | 81 ft | 977 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 39 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 953 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 40 | standard electric | 48 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 1,025 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 41 | standard electric | 47 ft | 30 amp | 62 ft | 1,077 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 42 | standard electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | 86 ft | 1,160 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 43 | standard electric | 57 ft | 30 amp | 80 ft | 1,243 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 44 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 1,320 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 45 | standard electric | 55 ft | 30 amp | 77 ft | 1,396 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 46 | standard electric | 52 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 1,547 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 47 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 1,511 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 48 | standard electric | 54 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 1,416 ft | $20–$24 | |
| WOOD | 49 | standard electric | 46 ft | 30 amp | 102 ft | 1,407 ft | $20–$24 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 83 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
North Overlook Camp1.9 mi
Fifield (IA)2.2 mi
Howell Station2.6 miRoberts Creek East Campground2.8 miRoberts Creek West Campground2.9 mi
Ivans2.9 mi890 190th Ave Pella, Iowa 50219
Take County Highway G-28 4 miles west of Pella, then go 0.8 miles south on 190th Avenue.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Pella, IA
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 13°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
Wallashuck is in Iowa’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →