CAMPANAC.Powered by public lands intelligenceMore Than Just Parks

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · IA

Whitebreast Camp

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:33 UTC

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:33 UTC
A night: $20–$24When it reopens, per site
Sites: 132In the agency’s record

Photos · US Army Corps of Engineers

65 ftLongest rig

820 ftElevation

1,546 ftWater · an unnamed pond

3.4 miNE of Knoxville, IA

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices

In the agency’s own words

Whitebreast Camp 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. Keep reading

Anglers will find crappie, walleye, largemouth and striped bass, 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 Facilities This large campground offers 132 campsites and two group sites, all with either 30 or 50-amp electric hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp. Younger campers love the park's playgrounds, and the Whitebreast Beach is nearby. Two day use picnic shelters are also located within the Whitebreast Camp area. The Whitebreast Point shelter is a conventional open shelter and the Miner's Retreat shelter is a small enclosed shelter.

Natural Features

Lake Red Rock is situated on the Des Moines River. Hardwood forests cover the lake shore at Whitebreast, 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.

Nearby Attractions

Des Moines, Iowa's capital, is an hour away, with numerous shopping and dining opportunities, museums and the Blank Park Zoo. Contact Info For local information, please call (641) 842-2969 or call (641) 828-7522 for general information.

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 amount. Cancel or change reservations through recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

Whitebreast does not have a reservation window. You MUST have a reservation prior to occupying a site.

Rule

Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. and check-out time is 2:00 p.m.

Rule

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) 842-2969.

Everything else this campground posts · 6

Rule

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.

Rule

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.

Rule

Parking or driving on the grass is not allowed. Boat trailers may be parked on the grass.

Rule

Golf carts, UTVs, and ATVs are not permitted.

Rule

Kiddie pools, slip-and-slides, and similar water-based play equipment are not permitted.

Rule

Bounce houses and similar inflatable play equipment are not permitted.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 132 · 2 group
Hookups: 126 electric
Longest rig: 65 ft
Accessible sites: None listed
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: 94 of 112 sites

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Pit Toilets; “…hookups. Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Amenities include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…include flush and pit toilets, showers, drinking water, a dump station and boat ramp. Younger campers love…”
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, Beach; Biking; Boating; Fishing; Hiking; Swimming; Visitor center; Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 8th darkest of 32 in IA: Bortle 4
Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 30 km away: Patchy color

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

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (30 km) · Oct 13, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:33 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

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.

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$20–$24plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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.

Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, when it reopens$20–$24

Standard Electric$20

Standard Electric 30 Amp$22

Standard Electric 50 Amp$24

Group areas, a night$168–$288

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 23, 2026 to Oct 4, 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.

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

“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 amount.” · 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 · 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

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · 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

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Whitebreast Camp closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers status record · Oct 16, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

recreation.gov availability, read 16:33 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

The sites

132 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 107 mapped sites

77 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop HEIG HEI1 214 ftLoop HEIG HEI2 214 ftLoop COAL 068 114 ftLoop MEAD 046 109 ftLoop COAL 085 102 ft

Least roomLoop MEAD 006 52 ftLoop MEAD 007 52 ftLoop COAL 087 57 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 132 sites

111 of 132 sites located

RV / electric105Group2Type not stated4

059 060 061 062 063 064 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 084 085 086 087 088 089 090 091 HEI1 HEI2 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 111 of the 132 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 126 of the 132 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


COAL	059	standard electric	49 ft	30 amp	59 ft	633 ftLake Red Rock	1,067 ft	$20–$24
COAL	060	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	59 ft	589 ftLake Red Rock	1,126 ft	$20–$24
COAL	061	standard electric	49 ft	30 amp	69 ft	546 ftLake Red Rock	1,211 ft	$20–$24
COAL	062	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	69 ft	539 ftLake Red Rock	1,272 ft	$20–$24
COAL	063	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	74 ft	551 ftLake Red Rock	1,329 ft	$20–$24
COAL	064	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	79 ft	513 ftLake Red Rock	1,398 ft	$20–$24
COAL	068	standard electric	44 ft	30 amp	114 ft	333 ftLake Red Rock	1,842 ft	$20–$24
COAL	069	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	76 ft	383 ftLake Red Rock	1,876 ft	$20–$24
COAL	070	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	76 ft	417 ftLake Red Rock	1,902 ft	$20–$24
COAL	071	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	80 ft	461 ftLake Red Rock	1,793 ft	$20–$24
COAL	072	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	80 ft	538 ftLake Red Rock	1,723 ft	$20–$24
COAL	073	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	82 ft	619 ftLake Red Rock	1,658 ft	$20–$24
COAL	074	standard electric	65 ft	30 amp	69 ft	660 ftLake Red Rock	1,738 ft	$20–$24
COAL	075	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp	69 ft	711 ftLake Red Rock	1,745 ft	$20–$24
COAL	076	standard electric	44 ft	30 amp	74 ft	763 ftLake Red Rock	1,760 ft	$20–$24
COAL	077	standard electric	49 ft	30 amp	73 ft	740 ftLake Red Rock	1,598 ft	$20–$24
COAL	078	standard electric	52 ft	30 amp	73 ft	734 ftLake Red Rock	1,544 ft	$20–$24
COAL	079	standard electric	49 ft	30 amp	81 ft	816 ftLake Red Rock	1,484 ft	$20–$24
COAL	080	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	79 ft	728 ftLake Red Rock	1,478 ft	$20–$24
COAL	081	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	81 ft	817 ftLake Red Rock	1,414 ft	$20–$24
COAL	082	standard electric	31 ft	30 amp	79 ft	717 ftLake Red Rock	1,426 ft	$20–$24
COAL	083	type not stated	60 ft	50 amp		815 ftLake Red Rock	1,353 ft
COAL	084	type not stated	55 ft	50 amp		820 ftLake Red Rock	1,218 ft
COAL	085	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	102 ft	731 ftLake Red Rock	1,205 ft	$20–$24
COAL	086	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	92 ft	818 ftLake Red Rock	1,172 ft	$20–$24
COAL	087	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	57 ft	686 ftLake Red Rock	1,140 ft	$20–$24
COAL	088	standard electric	27 ft	30 amp	92 ft	800 ftLake Red Rock	1,102 ft	$20–$24
COAL	089	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	57 ft	700 ftLake Red Rock	1,087 ft	$20–$24
COAL	090	standard electric	34 ft	30 amp	68 ft	770 ftLake Red Rock	1,029 ft	$20–$24
COAL	091	standard electric	31 ft	30 amp	68 ft	769 ftLake Red Rock	978 ft	$20–$24
HEIG	114-25	type not stated	45 ft	15 amp
HEIG	114-251	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-2510	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-2511	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-2512	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-252	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-253	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-254	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-255	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-256	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-257	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-258	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	114-259	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	126-32	type not stated	45 ft	15 amp
HEIG	126-321	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	126-322	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	126-323	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	126-324	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	126-325	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	126-326	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	126-327	standard electric						$20–$24
HEIG	HEI1	group standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	214 ft	387 ftLake Red Rock	1,230 ft	$168–$288
HEIG	HEI2	group standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	214 ft	554 ftLake Red Rock	1,023 ft	$168–$288
MEAD	001	standard electric	33 ft	30 amp	85 ft	1,038 ftLake Red Rock	744 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	002	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	85 ft	1,096 ftLake Red Rock	660 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	003	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	78 ft	1,147 ftLake Red Rock	574 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	004	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	78 ft	1,193 ftLake Red Rock	496 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	005	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	84 ft	1,204 ftLake Red Rock	430 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	006	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	53 ft	1,211 ftLake Red Rock	384 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	007	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	53 ft	1,197 ftLake Red Rock	379 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	008	type not stated	52 ft	30 amp		1,167 ftLake Red Rock	394 ft
MEAD	009	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	85 ft	1,142 ftLake Red Rock	431 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	010	standard electric	28 ft	30 amp	85 ft	1,087 ftLake Red Rock	504 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	011	standard electric	26 ft	30 amp	69 ft	1,187 ftLake Red Rock	433 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	012	standard electric	24 ft	30 amp	69 ft	1,242 ftLake Red Rock	365 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	013	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	75 ft	1,287 ftLake Red Rock	296 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	014	standard electric	53 ft	30 amp	76 ft	1,309 ftLake Red Rock	253 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	015	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	76 ft	1,342 ftLake Red Rock	227 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	016	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	77 ft	1,361 ftLake Red Rock	243 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	017	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	77 ft	1,394 ftLake Red Rock	267 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	018	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp	84 ft	1,447 ftLake Red Rock	380 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	019	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	74 ft	1,421 ftLake Red Rock	464 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	020	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	74 ft	1,380 ftLake Red Rock	532 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	021	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	86 ft	1,582 ftLake Red Rock	438 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	022	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	86 ft	1,568 ftLake Red Rock	352 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	023	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	79 ft	1,520 ftLake Red Rock	264 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	024	standard electric	49 ft	30 amp	76 ft	1,489 ftLake Red Rock	199 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	025	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	73 ft	1,458 ftLake Red Rock	145 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	026	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	73 ft	1,432 ftLake Red Rock	119 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	027	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	83 ft	1,406 ftLake Red Rock	139 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	028	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	86 ft	1,381 ftLake Red Rock	201 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	029	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	86 ft	1,367 ftLake Red Rock	277 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	030	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	86 ft	1,301 ftLake Red Rock	362 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	031	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp	69 ft	1,251 ftLake Red Rock	308 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	032	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp	69 ft	1,233 ftLake Red Rock	246 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	033	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp	71 ft	1,246 ftLake Red Rock	151 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	034	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	71 ft	1,266 ftLake Red Rock	82 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	036	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	78 ft	1,338 ftLake Red Rock	92 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	037	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	78 ft	1,345 ftLake Red Rock	168 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	038	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	77 ft	1,374 ftLake Red Rock	276 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	039	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	77 ft	1,419 ftLake Red Rock	351 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	040	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp	90 ft	1,284 ftLake Red Rock	333 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	041	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	87 ft	1,255 ftLake Red Rock	249 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	042	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	85 ft	1,221 ftLake Red Rock	184 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	043	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	83 ft	1,211 ftLake Red Rock	126 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	044	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	78 ft	1,185 ftLake Red Rock	133 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	045	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp	78 ft	1,139 ftLake Red Rock	196 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	046	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	109 ft	1,116 ftLake Red Rock	280 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	047	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	91 ft	1,142 ftLake Red Rock	581 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	048	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp	83 ft	1,196 ftLake Red Rock	604 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	049	standard electric	51 ft	30 amp	64 ft	1,241 ftLake Red Rock	645 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	050	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	64 ft	1,225 ft	681 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	051	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	71 ft	1,160 ft	736 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	052	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	80 ft	1,116 ft	815 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	053	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	97 ft	1,174 ftLake Red Rock	943 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	054	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp	86 ft	1,160 ftLake Red Rock	852 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	055	standard electric	47 ft	30 amp	71 ft	1,138 ftLake Red Rock	780 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	056	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp	69 ft	1,116 ftLake Red Rock	729 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	057	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp	69 ft	1,071 ftLake Red Rock	711 ft	$20–$24
MEAD	058	standard electric	28 ft	30 amp	97 ft	1,044 ftLake Red Rock	662 ft	$20–$24
PONC	092	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	72 ft	516 ftLake Red Rock	2,550 ft	$20–$24
PONC	093	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	76 ft	441 ftLake Red Rock	2,603 ft	$20–$24
PONC	094	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	83 ft	380 ftLake Red Rock	2,630 ft	$20–$24
PONC	095	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	83 ft	412 ftLake Red Rock	2,549 ft	$20–$24
PONC	096	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	81 ft	425 ftLake Red Rock	2,462 ft	$20–$24
PONC	097	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	75 ft	428 ftLake Red Rock	2,381 ft	$20–$24
PONC	098	standard electric	49 ft	50 amp	75 ft	431 ftLake Red Rock	2,307 ft	$20–$24
PONC	099	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp	77 ft	438 ftLake Red Rock	2,220 ft	$20–$24
PONC	100	standard electric	56 ft	50 amp	77 ft	480 ftLake Red Rock	2,155 ft	$20–$24
PONC	101	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	78 ft	568 ftLake Red Rock	2,159 ft	$20–$24
PONC	102	standard electric	46 ft	50 amp	77 ft	507 ftLake Red Rock	2,144 ft	$20–$24
PONC	103	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp	74 ft	555 ftLake Red Rock	2,235 ft	$20–$24
PONC	104	standard electric	51 ft	50 amp	65 ft	542 ftLake Red Rock	2,219 ft	$20–$24
PONC	105	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	74 ft	549 ftLake Red Rock	2,308 ft	$20–$24
PONC	106	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	65 ft	574 ftLake Red Rock	2,283 ft	$20–$24
PONC	107	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp	76 ft	607 ftLake Red Rock	2,360 ft	$20–$24
PONC	108	standard electric	48 ft	50 amp	72 ft	630 ftLake Red Rock	2,436 ft	$20–$24
PONC	109	standard electric	47 ft	50 amp	72 ft	644 ftLake Red Rock	2,506 ft	$20–$24
PONC	110	standard electric	54 ft	50 amp	86 ft	575 ftLake Red Rock	2,592 ft	$20–$24
PONC	111	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp	80 ft	663 ftLake Red Rock	2,559 ft	$20–$24
PONC	112	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp	72 ft	583 ftLake Red Rock	2,533 ft	$20–$24
PONC	113	type not stated	45 ft	50 amp		679 ftLake Red Rock	2,490 ft

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

25 of 132 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

Coordinate41.36417, -93.02500

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone641-828-7522

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Howell Station2.7 mi

Ivans2.7 mi

Wallashuck2.9 mi

North Overlook Camp3.1 mi

Fifield (IA)3.6 mi Elk Rock Campground and Boat Ramp4.1 mi

Getting there

971 Highway S71 Knoxville, Iowa 50138

From Knoxville, take County Highway T-15 northeast for 8 miles. Turn north onto County Highway S-71 and continue 2 miles, following signs to the campground.

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

Today53°Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Cloudy21% rain

Tonight33°Mostly Clear then Areas Of Frost

Saturday59°Widespread Frost then Sunny

Saturday Night39°Clear

NWS forecast for Knoxville, IA

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

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.

90°32°0°

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: KNOXVILLE, IA (USC00134502), 5 miles away and 75 ft higher

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

Whitebreast Camp 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 lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 16:33 UTC). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 107 of the 132 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 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 111 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 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: 0.73 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

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (30 km) · Oct 13, 2026

Reported by: USA National Phenology Network (Nature's Notebook), reported patchy color · Oct 13, 2026

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