Wolf Creek Campground (ND)
1Heads up1 fire 47 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 67All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Wolf Creek Campground is located along the southern shore of beautiful Lake Sakakawea. The recreation area offers a wide variety of recreational activities, including boating, fishing, hiking, mountain biking, sailing, scuba diving, bird watching, and hunting. In the winter the area offers great ice fishing access opportunites. For more information about Lake Sakakawea, please visit the Garrison Project website here . Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Sakakawea offers excellent boating, swimming, fishing and hunting opportunities. Several state record fish have been caught in Lake Sakakawea. Anglers fish for walleye, Sauger, northern pike, muskie, small and large mouth bass, bluegill and crappie. Chinook salmon can be also found in the lake, the only body of water in the state with this species and is very popular place to camp as a result. The best catfishing is found directly below Garrison Dam just 6 miles away. Younger visitors love the playground in the campground. While the volleyball courts, horseshoe pits are enjoyed by campers of all ages. There are showers available in our Downstream Campground just 5 miles down the road as well as amphitheater programs in the evenings on Saturdays. The Wolf Creek Wildlife Management Area is located east and west of the campground and offers great hunting opportunities, its full of grass and wooded areas are open to the public for deer, pheasant, sharp-tail grouse, cottontail rabbits, and tree squirrels during open season.
Facilities
The campground consists of 67 primitive campsites, each with a picnic table and grill. Amenities include brand new vault toilets, fish cleaning station, a fill and dump station, boat ramp.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a nice open grassy area with lake views from most of the campsites with the sites being right on the water.
Nearby Attractions
Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery is minutes from the campground 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 offers walking tours during the months of June, July, and first part of August on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 2pm. The Audubon National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center is located about 8 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. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (701) 654-7411.
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
Only one camping unit (RV/tent) is allowed per campsite; doubling up is not permitted. Other local rules may apply.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
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.
OHV's, Golf Carts, ATV's are NOT allowed within Campground.
Attention boaters and anglers! Help protect your waters from Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS), remember to CLEAN, DRAIN, and DRY! For more information, please visit StopAquaticHitchhikers.org or North Dakota Department of Game & Fish here .
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 67
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and grill. Amenities include brand new vault toilets, fish cleaning station, a fill and dump station,…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Campground Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Ice Fishing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Sailing
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $14 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.
“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
67 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 67 mapped sitesAll 67 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. 67 of the 67 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| East End | 001 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 91 ft | $14 |
| East End | 002 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 99 ft | $14 |
| East End | 003 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 117 ft | $14 |
| East End | 004 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 192 ft | $14 |
| East End | 005 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 240 ft | $14 |
| East End | 006 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 245 ft | $14 |
| East End | 007 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 243 ft | $14 |
| East End | 008 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 211 ft | $14 |
| East End | 009 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 201 ft | $14 |
| East End | 010 | standard nonelectric | 130 ft | 238 ft | $14 |
| East End | 011 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 323 ft | $14 |
| East End | 012 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 319 ft | $14 |
| East End | 013 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 323 ft | $14 |
| East End | 014 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 341 ft | $14 |
| East End | 015 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 345 ft | $14 |
| East End | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 339 ft | $14 |
| East End | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 339 ft | $14 |
| East End | 018 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 183 ft | $14 |
| East End | 019 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 167 ft | $14 |
| East End | 020 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 203 ft | $14 |
| East End | 021 | standard nonelectric | 131 ft | 130 ft | $14 |
| East End | 022 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 183 ft | $14 |
| East End | 023 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 194 ft | $14 |
| East End | 024 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 226 ft | $14 |
| East End | 025 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 280 ft | $14 |
| East End | 026 | standard nonelectric | 269 ft | 330 ft | $14 |
| East End | 027 | standard nonelectric | 129 ft | 163 ft | $14 |
| East End | 028 | standard nonelectric | 129 ft | 240 ft | $14 |
| East End | 029 | standard nonelectric | 177 ft | 144 ft | $14 |
| East End | 030 | standard nonelectric | 139 ft | 236 ft | $14 |
| East End | 031 | standard nonelectric | 139 ft | 130 ft | $14 |
| East End | 032 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 164 ft | $14 |
| East End | 033 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 214 ft | $14 |
| East End | 034 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 230 ft | $14 |
| East End | 035 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 308 ft | $14 |
| East End | 036 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 217 ft | $14 |
| East End | 037 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 315 ft | $14 |
| East End | 038 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 237 ft | $14 |
| East End | 039 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 318 ft | $14 |
| East End | 040 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 247 ft | $14 |
| East End | 041 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 306 ft | $14 |
| East End | 042 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 249 ft | $14 |
| East End | 043 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 295 ft | $14 |
| East End | 044 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 213 ft | $14 |
| East End | 045 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 288 ft | $14 |
| East End | 046 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 184 ft | $14 |
| East End | 047 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 317 ft | $14 |
| East End | 048 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 205 ft | $14 |
| East End | 049 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 236 ft | $14 |
| West End | 050 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 126 ft | $14 |
| West End | 051 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 136 ft | $14 |
| West End | 052 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 189 ft | $14 |
| West End | 053 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 278 ft | $14 |
| West End | 054 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 294 ft | $14 |
| West End | 055 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 311 ft | $14 |
| West End | 056 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 334 ft | $14 |
| West End | 057 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 361 ft | $14 |
| West End | 058 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 357 ft | $14 |
| West End | 059 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 400 ft | $14 |
| West End | 060 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 240 ft | $14 |
| West End | 061 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 240 ft | $14 |
| West End | 062 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 120 ft | $14 |
| West End | 063 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 209 ft | $14 |
| West End | 064 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 171 ft | $14 |
| West End | 065 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 173 ft | $14 |
| West End | 066 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 194 ft | $14 |
| West End | 067 | standard nonelectric | 116 ft | 175 ft | $14 |
25 of 67 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Hazelton Recreation Area80 mi
Summit Campground90 mi
CCC Campground (ND)Little Missouri National Grassland · 92 miFrom Bismarck, ND: travel north on US-83/ND-1804 approximately 55 miles, turn left onto ND-200/6th St. NW and travel approximately 7.5 miles, turn right onto 37th Ave NW and travel 1 mile then turn right onto 7th St. NW travel 1 mile and turn left onto 36th Ave NW, travel approximately 2 miles and arrive at campground.
From Minot, ND: travel south on US-83 for approximately 50 miles, turn right onto 32nd Ave NW and travel for 1 mile, turn right onto 8th St NW and travel 4 miles, turn right onto 36th Ave NW and travel for 1 mile and arrive at campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Riverdale, 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
Wolf Creek 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 →