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West Overlook Campground

ReservableBookable through October 17; November 1 opens May 1.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Taking bookingsSites offered on 2 of the next 2 nights read 16:27 UTC
A night
$22–$28Across the site types the agency prices
Sites
89All of them booked ahead
Photos · Coralville Lake
73 ftLongest rig
770 ftElevation
1,101 ftWater · an unnamed lake
1.2 miNE of Coralville, IA
0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices

In the agency’s own words

The West Overlook Campground is located within the Dam Complex at the Coralville Lake Project. The Coralville Lake Project is a multiple use project providing primary benefits in flood control and low flow augmentation, and secondary benefits in recreation, fish and wildlife management and forest management. Coralville Lake provides many recreational opportunities, including boating, camping, hiking, mountain biking, lake and river fishing, swimming, water skiing, picnicking and hunting. Keep reading

Recreation

Visitors enjoy Coralville Lake for camping, boating, fishing, swimming and water activities. Anglers will find large and smallmouth bass, crappie, walleye and catfish. Several trails are within the Dam Complex, including Squire Point, Woodpecker Trail, Tailwater Riverwalk and barrier-free Veterans Trail.The Devonian Fossil Gorge is just below the dam, offering a unique opportunity to explore a 375-million-year old sea floor and discover fossil remains of sea life that once inhabited this tropical marine environment. Twenty discovery points can be found throughout the site along with a cell phone audio tour. The Turkey Creek Disc Golf Course is located in the Dam Complex and offers nine partially wooden and open holes.

Facilities

The West Overlook Campground is located on the west side of the Coralville Lake Dam. The campground offers 89 standard electric campsites. Amenities include modern restroom and shower facilities, boat ramp, playgrounds, and horseshoes. The West Overlook Day Use Area offers a beach, picnic sites, picnic shelter, volleyball court, and playground. The dump station and drinking water is located just outside of the West Overlook Campground.

Natural Features

Coralville Lake is located in the Iowa River Valley, just north of Iowa City. The West Overlook Campground lies among a heavily wooded forest of mixed hardwood species on the west side of the dam. Wildlife is abundant throughout the project. Whitetail deer, turkeys, pheasants, waterfowl, song birds and other species roam the lands around the lake.

Nearby Attractions

Iowa City/Coralville offers the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Iowa campus, hospital and clinics, numerous restaurants and shops as well as Coral Ridge Mall. Cedar Rapids has wonderful cultural, historic and ethnic attractions such as The National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library and is the home of the Kernels Professional Baseball Club. West Branch boasts the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and Presidential Library/Museum. At Amana Colonies visit seven quaint villages with outstanding restaurants, wineries, historic sites and specialty shops. Kalona is known as the "Quilt Capital of Iowa" and is home to an Old Order Amish and Mennonite Community.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Three camping units are permitted per site: One RV and two tent, or three tents per site.

Rule

Up to 6 occupants are permitted per site.

Rule

Quiet Hours are from 10:00 p.m. - 6:00 a.m.

Everything else this campground posts · 12
Rule

Visitors shall register for their campsite at the West Overlook Campground Fee Booth prior to setting up on the campsite.

Rule

Do not attach anything to trees.

Rule

Pets must be penned, on a leash under 6 feet in length, or otherwise physically restrained.

Rule

No parking on grass, roads, shoulders or empty campsites.

Rule

No UTVs or golf carts within the campground.

Rule

All of the following items are prohibited: loaded firearms, explosives, ammunition, bows or other projectile-firing device, and fireworks.

Rule

No-Shows: If a customer does not arrive and register for their campsite by check-out time the day after original arrival date, the customer will be assessed a $20.00 service fee and forfeit the first night use fee.

Rule

All of the following items are prohibited: bouncy houses, swimming pools, and chinese lanterns.

Rule

Cancellation: If a customer cancels a reservation they will be charged a $10.00 service fee. If a customer cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival they will be charged a $10.00 service fee and will also forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation).

Rule

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.

Rule

The dump station, drinking water, trash and recycling receptacles are located just outside of the West Overlook Campground.

Rule

All boats shall be removed from the lake/river each day. Boats are not permitted to be moored on the shoreline overnight.

Read them on the agency’s own page →
Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites
89
Hookups
89 electric, 19 water
Longest rig
73 ft
Paved pads
26 of 89
Accessible sites
1
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
78 of 81 sites
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
“Amenities include modern restroom and shower facilities, boat ramp, playgrounds, and horseshoes.”
Showers
Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
“Amenities include modern restroom and shower facilities, boat ramp, playgrounds, and horseshoes.”
Drinking water
Yes
“…and playground. The dump station and drinking water is located just outside of the West Overlook…”
Dump station
Yes
recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp
Yes
Playground
Yes
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River, Creek, Beach
Biking
Boating
Fishing
Hiking
Swimming
Water access
Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 20th darkest of 32 in IA
Bortle 5
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

4 of 178 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:27 UTC

Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.

OpenBooked

Booking windowThrough October 17Bookable now through October 17, 2026, the end of the reservable season. On November 1, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 1, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
A night$22–$28plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$52–$64DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Sat, May 1 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 15

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night, per site$22–$28
Gravel SITE: 30 Amp$22
Concrete SITE: 30 Amp$24
Gravel SITE: 50 Amp & Water$26
Concrete SITE: 50 Amp & Water$28
Rates for the season the campground is in now, May 1, 2026 to Oct 17, 2026.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
One nightDerived$30–$36
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$52–$64

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $22–$28 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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
Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:27 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

89 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 89 mapped sites
49 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Most roomLoop WOVC W77 104 ftLoop WOVC W78 103 ftLoop WOVC W72 98 ftLoop WOVC W81 96 ftLoop WOVC W79 87 ft
Least roomLoop WOVC W01 34 ftLoop WOVC W13 34 ftLoop WOVC W62 36 ft
Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 89 sites

89 of 89 sites located
RV / electric89
W01W02W03W04W05W06W07W08W09W10W11W12W13W14W15W16W17W18W19W20W21W22W23W24W25W26W27W28W29W30W31W32W33W34W35W36W37W38W39W40W41W42W43W44W45W46W47W48W49W50W51W52W53W54W55W56W57W58W59W60W61W62W63W64W65W66W67W68W69W70W71W72W73W74W75W76W77W78W79W80W81W82W83W84W85W86W87W88W89
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026
Imagery: Esri World Imagery
SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 89 of the 89 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

WOVCW01standard electric51 ft20/30 amp34 ft1,073 ft$22–$28
WOVCW02standard electric50 ft20/30 amp45 ft1,017 ft$22–$28
WOVCW03standard electric49 ft20/30 amp57 ft949 ft$22–$28
WOVCW04standard electric55 ft20/30 amp49 ft916 ft$22–$28
WOVCW05standard electric53 ft20/30 amp45 ft899 ft$22–$28
WOVCW06standard electric32 ft20/30 amp58 ft806 ft$22–$28
WOVCW07standard electric57 ft20/30 amp49 ft830 ft$22–$28
WOVCW08standard electric59 ft20/30 amp58 ft756 ft$22–$28
WOVCW09standard electric56 ft20/30 amp81 ft728 ft$22–$28
WOVCW10standard electric49 ft20/30 amp49 ft877 ft$22–$28
WOVCW11standard electric50 ft20/30 amp45 ft928 ft$22–$28
WOVCW12standard electric44 ft20/30 amp54 ft994 ft$22–$28
WOVCW13standard electric49 ft20/30 amp34 ft1,055 ft$22–$28
WOVCW14standard electric57 ft20/30 amp71 ft1,087 ft$22–$28
WOVCW15standard electric55 ft20/30 amp48 ft1,112 ft$22–$28
WOVCW16standard electric59 ft20/30 amp84 ft1,033 ft$22–$28
WOVCW17standard electric43 ft20/30 amp49 ft925 ft$22–$28
WOVCW18standard electric55 ft20/30 amp59 ft876 ft$22–$28
WOVCW19standard electric50 ft20/30 amp67 ft995 ft$22–$28
WOVCW20standard electric53 ft20/30 amp67 ft987 ft$22–$28
WOVCW21standard electric61 ft20/30 amp48 ft919 ft$22–$28
WOVCW22standard electric53 ft20/30 amp48 ft878 ft$22–$28
WOVCW23standard electric55 ft20/30 amp45 ft847 ft$22–$28
WOVCW24standard electric61 ft20/30 amp45 ft822 ft$22–$28
WOVCW25standard electric54 ft20/30 amp45 ft814 ft$22–$28
WOVCW26standard electric48 ft20/30 amp50 ft783 ft$22–$28
WOVCW27standard electric51 ft20/30 amp50 ft739 ft$22–$28
WOVCW28standard electric49 ft20/30 amp53 ft741 ft$22–$28
WOVCW29standard electric53 ft20/30 amp43 ft788 ft$22–$28
WOVCW30standard electric50 ft20/30 amp48 ft841 ft$22–$28
WOVCW31standard electric58 ft20/30 amp43 ft829 ft$22–$28
WOVCW32standard electric46 ft20/30 amp48 ft888 ft$22–$28
WOVCW33standard electric52 ft20/30 amp54 ft864 ft$22–$28
WOVCW34standard electric35 ft20/30 amp62 ft595 ft$22–$28
WOVCW35standard electric53 ft20/30 amp55 ft537 ft$22–$28
WOVCW36standard electric32 ft20/30 amp55 ft483 ft$22–$28
WOVCW37standard electric47 ft20/30 amp58 ft453 ft$22–$28
WOVCW38standard electric50 ft20/30 amp62 ft465 ft$22–$28
WOVCW39standard electric55 ft20/30 amp69 ft337 ft$22–$28
WOVCW40standard electric55 ft20/30 amp45 ft375 ft$22–$28
WOVCW41standard electric53 ft20/30 amp66 ft340 ft$22–$28
WOVCW42standard electric58 ft20/30 amp45 ft334 ft$22–$28
WOVCW43standard electric52 ft20/30 amp50 ft290 ft$22–$28
WOVCW44standard electric52 ft20/30 amp58 ft290 ft$22–$28
WOVCW45standard electric59 ft20/30 amp52 ft236 ft$22–$28
WOVCW46standard electric60 ft20/30 amp52 ft193 ft$22–$28
WOVCW47standard electric63 ft20/30 amp56 ft168 ft$22–$28
WOVCW48standard electric49 ft20/30 amp58 ft243 ft$22–$28
WOVCW49standard electric61 ft20/30 amp46 ft162 ft$22–$28
WOVCW50standard electric57 ft20/30 amp45 ft164 ft$22–$28
WOVCW51standard electric64 ft20/30 amp45 ft164 ft$22–$28
WOVCW52standard electric54 ft20/30 amp43 ft167 ft$22–$28
WOVCW53standard electric49 ft20/30 amp46 ft244 ft$22–$28
WOVCW54standard electric59 ft20/30 amp43 ft178 ft$22–$28
WOVCW55standard electric54 ft20/30 amp38 ft257 ft$22–$28
WOVCW56standard electric51 ft20/30 amp48 ft194 ft$22–$28
WOVCW57standard electric51 ft20/30 amp38 ft262 ft$22–$28
WOVCW58standard electric60 ft20/30 amp66 ft201 ft$22–$28
WOVCW59standard electric48 ft20/30 amp49 ft268 ft$22–$28
WOVCW60standard electric66 ft20/30 ampyes49 ft286 ft$22–$28
WOVCW61standard electric59 ft20/30/50 amp40 ft195 ft$22–$28
WOVCW62standard electric59 ft20/30/50 amp36 ft167 ft$22–$28
WOVCW63standard electric53 ft20/30/50 amp36 ft162 ft$22–$28
WOVCW64standard electric54 ft20/30/50 amp40 ft167 ft$22–$28
WOVCW65standard electric58 ft20/30/50 amp39 ft190 ft$22–$28
WOVCW66standard electric56 ft20/30/50 amp39 ft198 ft$22–$28
WOVCW67standard electric57 ft20/30/50 amp45 ft226 ft$22–$28
WOVCW68standard electric51 ft20/30/50 amp44 ft285 ft$22–$28
WOVCW69standard electric57 ft20/30/50 amp44 ft329 ft$22–$28
WOVCW70standard electric60 ft20/30/50 amp46 ft321 ft$22–$28
WOVCW71standard electric60 ft20/30/50 amp46 ft309 ft$22–$28
WOVCW72standard electric60 ft20/30/50 amp98 ft410 ft$22–$28
WOVCW73standard electric60 ft20/30/50 amp61 ft346 ft$22–$28
WOVCW74standard electric60 ft20/30/50 amp52 ft381 ft$22–$28
WOVCW75standard electric60 ft20/30/50 amp52 ft419 ft$22–$28
WOVCW76standard electric49 ft20/30/50 amp52 ft460 ft$22–$28
WOVCW77standard electric60 ft20/30/50 amp104 ft341 ft$22–$28
WOVCW78standard electric64 ft20/30/50 amp103 ft486 ft$22–$28
WOVCW79standard electric58 ft20/30 amp87 ft597 ft$22–$28
WOVCW80standard electric53 ft20/30 amp85 ft625 ft$22–$28
WOVCW81standard electric65 ft20/30/50 amp96 ft538 ft$22–$28
WOVCW82standard electric54 ft20/30 amp85 ft638 ft$22–$28
WOVCW83standard electric53 ft20/30 amp48 ft523 ft$22–$28
WOVCW84standard electric58 ft20/30 amp48 ft569 ft$22–$28
WOVCW85standard electric54 ft20/30 amp55 ft621 ft$22–$28
WOVCW86standard electric56 ft20/30 amp54 ft678 ft$22–$28
WOVCW87standard electric56 ft20/30 amp54 ft700 ft$22–$28
WOVCW88standard electric60 ft20/30 amp54 ft711 ft$22–$28
WOVCW89standard electric73 ft20/30 amp65 ft723 ft$22–$28
Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

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 89 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate41.72528, -91.53556
The phoneMAY 1 - OCTOBER 31: WEST OVERLOOK CAMPGROUND 319-338-3685 NO
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near hereCottonwood Campground (IA)0.2 miTailwater West Campground0.2 miLinder Point Campground0.4 miTailwater East Campground0.5 miSugar Bottom Campground2.5 miSandy Beach Camp6.8 mi
Getting there

From Interstate 80 (Iowa City, IA) take Exit 244 towards Dubuque St./North Liberty. Travel north on Dubuque St. for 3 miles and turn right onto West Overlook Rd. NE. Travel on West Overlook Rd. NE for 1.1 miles. At the stop sign take a slight left turn. The entrance to the West Overlook Campground will be located straight ahead.

From Interstate 380 (North Liberty, IA) take Exit 4 towards North Liberty. Travel east on W. Penn St. for 2 miles and turn right onto N Dubuque St. Travel south on N Dubuque St. for 1.9 miles, at the traffic circle, continue straight onto Dubuque St NE. Continue traveling south on Dubuque St. NE for 1.8 miles. Turn left onto West Overlook Rd. NE and travel east for 1.1 miles. At the stop sign take a slight left turn. The entrance to the West Overlook Campground will be located straight ahead.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today52°Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy34% rain
Tonight32°Mostly Clear then Widespread Frost
Saturday57°Widespread Frost then Sunny
Saturday Night39°Clear

NWS forecast for Coralville, IA

Source: National Weather Service, DVN forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 42°F, day 64°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: IOWA CITY MUNI AP, IA (USW00014937), 6 miles away and 120 ft lower
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Mariannette Miller-Meeks, official portrait

West Overlook Campground 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 2 of the next 2 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.
Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 89 of the 89 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 14, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 2.3 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 32 rated federal campgrounds in Iowa · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026