Love SD State Parks
First time staying in the same day section.
KP from Fort Calhoun
11/10/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Pierson Ranch
Sffromsf
10/31/2025
Need dump station equipment upgrade
Dump station is far below standard ofnitgervosrjs,
Nana4400
10/28/2025
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
4.0
Facilities
2.5
Bathrooms
We were in first come first serve. No Bathrooms!!!! The area was quite full but the bathrooms in our area were locked.
Lj
10/16/2025
Overall Experience
3.3
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.7
Lovely
fethfam
10/16/2025
Lewis & Clark Stay
Camping sites are so spacious! Love the views.
Mark
10/15/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Best Park in South Dakota
South Dakota has many great parks and recreation areas, but this by far is the best one in the state as far as Im concerned! I really cant say enough good things about Lewis and Clark. There are miles of trails to hike and water activities to participate in. The campground is clean, the sites are not crowded, and the shoreline campsites offer magnificent views. If you have not been to Lewis and Clark yet, get there ASAP!!
Krazy Kamper
10/12/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.9
Beautiful place
Happy camper
10/12/2025
A Real Gem
The Lewis And Clark Recreation Area is such a great state park. A beautiful setting and plenty to do. Extensive Bike and walking paths, hiking on the Gavins Point Nature Trail is a must. Restroom and shower facilities were extremely clean and constantly checked by park staff. Speaking of Park Staff, we had great interaction with the staff at the welcome center. Very friendly and knowledgeable . Light a campfire and watch the sun go down. 5 Stars all the way around.
Green Acres
10/10/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Great changes in the Yankton Section of Lewis & Clark.
Taking out the bushes and replacing them with small trees was an awesome improvement. Just inside the Yankton section and around the #400's sites made such a positive improvement. These locations are now so much nicer and it opened up the area, great job making that change!
BEECH
10/9/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Fall
Nebr camper
10/6/2025
Clean up
We have stayed here many times over the years. This was the first time we encountered trash on our site, and an absolutely filthy shower house. Do better, even at the end of the season.
Snowhyte
10/3/2025
Overall Experience
1.8
Services
4.0
Facilities
2.1
Fall Weekend
We stayed in Gavin’s Point and although we still love the camp ground this time the bee’s were horrific. We couldn’t even eat without them flying in our food or face. My husband was stung multiple times. We had to end up spending money on a screened in canopy to get some relief. We did mention it to the registration desk nut was told there was nothing that could be done. We understand they are part of nature, but a heads up on the website .
Bernitt08
10/3/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
4.7
Facilities
4.1
Great Stay
DavidC
10/2/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
first review
The park is very nice to stay in. The sites are large. However, I would like to see an upgrade to 50amp service.
Boots
10/2/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.6
Horse camp
Loved the horse camp, clean shower, nice pens, trails have some rocks but very nice for barefoot riding, beautiful views of the lake on the hills riding, would like a better map system but paper map from park office did its job! Part of the adventure i guess!!! 10/10 recommendation
Trailridergirl
10/1/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.4
Facilities
4.2
Love Lewis & Clark State Park!
We love the park, the views of the lake, the bike trails, and all the fun campers we get to meet!
BeckyPrk
10/1/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
ThankYou
ThankYou
9/27/2025
Great-but holy yellow jackets
Absolutely love this park and will be back again. It's worth it to get the electrical sites if you want a great view. But the regular sites are great. The only issue we had was with yellow jackets! I've never been swarmed like that before. Thankfully the staff tried to help and only 1 sting happened, but I've never had that issue before, so I will be back again!
Ash
9/26/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
4.6
Facilities
4.7
Camping weekend
Shared a wonderful weekend at Lewis and Clark with our children and grandchildren. Campground staff were very friendly. The cabin was immaculate and we liked the private bathroom and shower. Our grandchildren enjoyed the playground and had wonderful afternoon playing in the sand at the beach. We even saw an Eagle. The bike/walking trails were very nice. We liked being able to bring our dog with us. The scenery is so beautiful. Was a truly relaxing weekend.
Teresa
9/24/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Always better than NE! I live 3 hours away in NE and always tweak my days off so I can have time to come here instead of my local state parks. I don’t mind the out of state fee! SD is the standard!
Sarah
9/22/2025
Fun Time
Weeezie
9/22/2025
Restful stay
JWM
9/21/2025
Great weekend
Mpeter76
9/18/2025
Great campground
Bryce
9/18/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
4.5
Facilities
4.3
Mini Vacation
Bear
9/18/2025
Camper
Beautiful campground. Lots of space and well maintained.
Camper Girl
9/18/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Retirement
Happy camper
9/18/2025
Dump station hoses
Dump station hose should have the threaded end so Campers can flush their systems. All other State parks have hoses that don’t have ends cut. Plus hose so short you couldn’t use it at all! Maddening!
Camper4500
9/15/2025
Overall Experience
3.5
Services
4.0
Facilities
3.4
Fantastic stay
shannonrecycles
9/7/2025
Great camping
Echo
9/2/2025
August
Love kayaking west from Gavins boat ramp. Sad to see the zebra mussel infestation along this path. We picked up a thank you bag+ of garbage, sad, wish people were more responsible. Enjoy weekday camping. Beaches are mostly clean, wish they would cleanup the seaweed a bit more often.
SD camper
9/1/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.2
Camping with grandson
Some of the comfort stations could be refreshed. Having not been to L&C in over 20 years, the signage for potable water is very lacking. That could be improved.
GrandpaW
8/28/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
3.4
Facilities
4.0
Lewis and Clark Lake Camping
Lewis and Clark is certainly one of the best state parks in South Dakota. Since last year they have increased the electrical hookups from 30 amps to 50 amps in the sites we stay at annually.
Phil
8/28/2025
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
5.0
Facilities
3.7
Awesome Overnight camp
The horse pens are the best we’ve ever encountered. There is a flush toilet and a shower. We will be making this our new layover when traveling to the black hills
August25
8/27/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Great stay
Great facilities and very well thought out park for traffic flow. The aquarium and hatchery was a great time.
Brian
8/27/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.9
Stay was great!
Kaci
8/27/2025
great bike trails
Biker
8/25/2025
L&C Campground
Campground is clean & awesome as always. Ill be back for our annual visit. Two annoyances: There should be a larger penalty for canceling. Too many reserve multiple visits & cancel last minute, taking away opportunities for others to get in. And - it's ridiculous to have a $15 per day entrance pass... Enough said !
Me
8/25/2025
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
4.6
Facilities
5.0
Great Park and stay was nice.... Just one thing though...
The only complaint is you NEED to have black tank flush connections at the dump stations. None of the dump stations within L&C Park, nor the dump stations that are a bit down the road, east of the park entrance, have the proper black tank flush connections. This is a big issue that must be addressed and corrected. Other than that, no complaints.
Lee
8/23/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
3.8
Love this park
Camp8q9
8/23/2025
Sensitivity to scents caused asthma attack
I’m allergic to many scents. There were 2 room fresheners in my cabin causing an asthma attack when I opened the door. I’m not allergic to vanilla & knew from past experiences that it absorbs unwanted odors. It was midnight before I could go in the cabin to sleep. It took 2 days withe vanilla & windows open to clear the odor enough not to set off my asthma. I could detect underlying cigarette smell
Colleen
8/22/2025
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
4.5
Facilities
3.7
Survey
Love camping
8/22/2025
Beautiful campground
David J
8/22/2025
Great place to camp
Lewis and Clark has everything we love—great lake view, great walking and bike trails, and overall great place. Two things I think can be improved on. We had a neighbor who tied their dog to a tree and then left. Dog barked all day. Ranger said they would talk to them. The other issue I have trouble with is when people reserve a spot in the same day camping, they have until 10:00 pm to get their camper there. Several spots just had tents setup overnight. I didn’t think this was allowed. This is frustrating to us as these were good spots that could have gone to someone who could get their camper there on time.
Camper
8/21/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.7
Excellent Family Camping at the Lake
Great campground to stay at in order to access Lewis and Clark Lake. We drove in from Denver to meet family (and the boat) coming from MN. The enforcement of the campsite rules around vehicles and accessories was not well enforced, which is either a benefit or detraction depending on your view. Beaches had been recently re-built or graded which was great for the kids, but the zebra mussel shells are very prevalent. Nearly all of us came away with cuts during the weekend. Only real complaint is that the bathrooms were cleaned pretty superficially with a lot of grime/sludge buildup in the corners of showers and floors. Despite the 8 hour drive from Denver, we're planning a return trip next summer. Thanks!
JLoCO
8/20/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.5
LOVE SOUTH DAKOTA PARKS
BOO BOO
8/20/2025
Good Outing
Slenk
8/17/2025
Great cabins with an awesome view! Trails come right by cabins A-F! We did see way too many pocket gophers and even a RAT under cabin D!!!
Rocky Bell
8/16/2025
10/10 will DEFINITELY be coming back!
love2camp
8/15/2025
Amazing Adventure
Sadie
8/14/2025
Wonderful trip
The park is always clean. The facilities are also clean. Staff alway seems welcoming and friendly.
The beach we used was freshly combed, which just gave a nice appearance.
Just Us
8/13/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Outstanding place to camp, relax, and enjoy with the family
LPNEBRASKA
8/12/2025
Nice place to camp!
Great place to meet up with family and spend a few nights together! We used a group loop and it was a nice private area. One thing they could improve is the group loop bathrooms. Showers were a little too grimy for me! Grass could also be cut a little shorter!
Rocky Bell
8/12/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.7
Copa Camping 2025
Papalags
8/12/2025
"Copa Camping 2025"
Papalags
8/12/2025
Hmmmm
We were camped too close to a site that had 9 tents, 5 vehicles, and approx 50 people. Yes.. on one site. Some kids darted in and out with cars going too fast. Once with 2 on the roof. Music was too loud several times… how can this be allowed??
JD
8/11/2025
Overall Experience
3.0
Services
3.4
Facilities
4.0
Great parks
K and B
8/9/2025
Very Happy
Snape
8/6/2025
Well staffed and well run!
LocalSDresident
8/6/2025
I’ll Be Back
Even though there are numerous camping spots the sites are spacious and private. We biked the trails and the were well maintained. Lovely rec area.
GusBus
8/3/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.0
Facilities
4.3
The increase in park prices we thought there would be improvement but the bathroom and shower were horrible,we ended up on occasion taking showers in our camper,be coming up to lathe park for over 60
Annual Trip
Omaha Annual Trip
8/1/2025
bike and boat summer va-ca
We have been coming to Lewis & Clark about this time of year for 20+ years. We often choose to come during the week because it is less crowded. Typically, the restrooms have been much cleaner. Even going to use the facilities right after workers left, it looked as though the cleaning was not as thorough--floors and shower areas not as clean.
Scarlet &Cream
7/31/2025
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
4.7
Facilities
4.6
Please Slow Down
I'm 74 years old and starting taking my kids here each year since 1977. I love this place. We are from Nebraska, but come to the South Dakota side because of how well maintained your campground are. We love what you do and what you provide.
Unfortunately, I had to cry multi times out of fear during our stay. This has never happened before. There were people driving a south Dakota park truck that were driving so fast. I can't believe they would drive that fast while there were so many young children walking around. We stayed in one of the group lots, and they were obeying the rules and just walking on our group loop road only back and forth from our camper to the camp fire. The person driving actually speed up after we yelled for them to slow down. I just can't believe this happened.
GrandmaOlmer
7/31/2025
Overall Experience
3.3
Services
3.0
Facilities
2.9
Good experience
ckl
7/31/2025
SLOW DOWN PARK WORKERS
Love our yearly camping trip here. First time I've had an issue. Multiple nights during out stay in the Group Loop section, park rangers in trucks came barreling through going way to fast to see children walking in our group loop. I have 2 small girls and they were very scared.
Kurt Olmer
7/31/2025
Overall Experience
2.8
Services
2.8
Facilities
3.2
Speeding Park Rangers at Night
We've been coming to this location for 47 years. I've never complained before, however during this visit on both Friday 7/25 and Saturday 7/26 the park ranger on duty drove through Group Loop B at a very high rate of speed. We had many small children going back and forth between the campfire and their campers and this was very scary and dangerous. Our group had no issue with a park ranger doing a drive by, we only had issue at the extreme rate of speed in which they drove in the dark with so many walkers and small children around. To be clear, this was before 11pm.
N Olmer
7/30/2025
Overall Experience
3.0
Services
3.2
Facilities
3.1
out of state charges @ safety concerns
disappointed in the fact that sd state parks are discouraging out of state visitors by adding charges to booking fees and permits fees.
also there needs to be some regulations on electric scooters and bikes that very young children are riding and young people operating side by sides and golf carts that obviously are not premitted to drive.
also could not remember site number and the staff said they could not look up our name, only site number. we did take a screen shot and remembered that on our phone. we've never had that happen before. beencamping in sd state parks for approx 30 years. very disappointed in this experiance
red october
7/30/2025
Overall Experience
3.3
Services
4.7
Facilities
4.5
Wonderful Experience!
Happy Camper
7/30/2025
Great campgrounds
Jodi
7/25/2025
Beautiful campground!
Love camping!
7/24/2025
Outstanding facility
Netguy10
7/24/2025
Grandkids and Us
This is an amazing facility for camping. The park is clean and sites are spaced a good distance apart. Overall it is a great park to camp at. However, there are some complaints. If children are camping, be conscious of the roads inside the park. There are many golf carts and side-by-sides driving around. Many by youngsters. There is a problem with dogs. Often there is dog waste at the campsite, dogs are not on a leash and they have come after me, and owners bring their dogs into the showers and restrooms.
Longtime Camper
7/24/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
4.7
Facilities
4.6
Not what it used to be
Been camping at Lewis and Clark for many many years. I've noticed the last couple years that the cleanliness of the restrooms has diminished a bit. I'm sure that the age of the facilities has some impact, but I don't think the time spent in each restroom to get them 100% clean still happens. We stayed in the Yankton section earlier this year and the same cobweb coming from the exhaust fan in one restroom was still there... three weeks later. South Dakota parks are definitely the cleanest and most well taken care of, and restroom condition was the main reason we don't camp in Nebraska, Will always be our park of choice so this isn't a deal breaker, just some feedback to hopefully make things better. Love SDGF&P!!
BEECH
7/24/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.6
Nice park. Rodent problems.
L&C is an amazing park. The one downside is they have a serious gopher problem and it's disgusting. The gophers are far too comfortable with guests and went as far as trying to chew through our tupperware. I will be bringing my kids BB gun the next time we come and killing all of the gophers at our site.
Bob Johnson
7/23/2025
Comments
I personally think the comfort stations need to be updated, Wi-Fi signal needs to be improved and additional boat docks need to be added. All the sites that we have stayed at have been good, but just some of these other things need to be addressed.
BigAl
7/23/2025
Overall Experience
3.5
Services
3.8
Facilities
3.6
Nice park but a bit expensive for a state park
This is a beautiful park. Nicely shaded, clean, and spacious. I found the park expensive for a state run park. $10 extra a night for non-resident plus another $15 per night for our vehicle. We have a fifth wheel. Also, I didn't like the fact that the extra vehicle charge was charged upon arrival. Either I missed that online or it's not there. I the case of the latter I find that in bad faith.
Catherine Holliday
7/23/2025
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.3
Just what we needed
We stayed in one of the camping cabins and it was perfect! The park was nice and quiet, very relaxing. Even though we didn’t have the best weather, it was still an amazing time!!
Kaufman
7/21/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Happy camper
Nice campground. The park could use more cabins. We camp there as a large family get together and would be great if there were more cabins for family members that do not have access to campers.
Rusty
7/20/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Great place to stay
It would be even better if you had full hookups
Danno
7/20/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.8
Old bikers
Old biker
7/20/2025
Great cabin with a wonderful view
dtIA
7/17/2025
Great Place to Camp
dtIA
7/17/2025
camp sites
john deere
7/17/2025
Great campground with some newer individual restrooms and water fill station are great improvements.
The new water fill station and newer individual family style shower/bathrooms are great additions. The staff does a great job helping out with any information or questions you may have. The bike trails are some of the best around, but new electric bikes may require a speed limit. I would like to see some of the holes made by ground squirrels and other animals filled, some are deep and a lot of them, we had two in our group sprain ankles. Would also like to see a larger or additional courtesy dock as it gets quite congested and the west dock at midway dock cleaned or dredged out so it could be used potentially for jet ski purpose, would be great. Lastly would love to see all 50-amp option electric spots, vast majority of campers today require this so is restricting at times for spots. Overall, this is a wonderful park with great amenities and activities to choose from. Thanks to the staff for all their work and efforts to keep the park so nice.
John
7/17/2025
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
4.5
Facilities
4.0
Pretty Park!
There were only 3 dump stations that the huge park had to share. Some very rude people were yelling and swearing at others due to wait. Huge line.
Had no idea where to find rental equipment, no one told us it was available
LA
7/16/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.0
Great Experience
First-time at Lewis & Clark. It was the nicest Campground we ever stayed at. We had a flat on our camper and the park host and staff came to our rescue. Thanks Ed & Luke.
Rookie Camper
7/16/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
30 years of happy camping at Lewis and Clark
We have been camping annually with our friends at Lewis and Clark for 30 years. The park is one of the best we have ever stayed at. Keep it up.
Relaxed Camping with Friends
7/16/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.7
Facilities
4.3
L&C park fan
Trevcat
7/16/2025
Water puddle
Site 228 - Rain creates a muddy lake on the pad right where our camper stairs are. I had to buy a squeegee to clean off the pad so we didn’t walk in mud a d water to get in our camper. Needs drainage corrected
Me
7/16/2025
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
3.6
Facilities
3.3
Great time camping
STACKED
7/16/2025
Awesome stay!
What a great place to stay. Didn’t like the additional $10 for out of state resident but I would not hesitate to stay again.
Iowa
7/14/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
3.4
Facilities
5.0
Vacations
Camping
7/13/2025
Great campsites
KimPossible
7/13/2025
Tree trimming
There is not a bad site in any of the Lewis and Clark camp grounds. There is nice grass around the paved site (not just mud). Also plenty of mature trees and shade, the only improvement would be trimming dead branches. There wasn’t any storm or wind and we had a 5” diameter 14’ long Cotten wood branch fall on our truck and camper leaving some nice dents in the hood and scratches.
Jensen family
7/12/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
3.6
Facilities
5.0
ADA Not enough ADA sites or Hard surface path to the beaches
We have been camping at Lewis and Clark Campground for almost 50 years (22 of them in a wheel chair) it has been a very well kept area and campsites are spacious some of the older bathroom facilities need some attention. There needs to be more ADA spots available that have hard surface so when it rains you can stay out of the mud and not track in to your camper. Same with access to the beaches it would be nice to have hard surface paths because it's really rough and muddy to get to them. Overall still a nice Campground.
Hammer
7/11/2025
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
4.6
Facilities
3.6
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.8
Facilities
5.0
Chaos
Overall this is a fantastic campground. I’ve been here many times and will continue to come back. One thing that gets annoying is the main boat launch, especially when it is busy. I would love to see the park staff helping to direct traffic more so it doesn’t get bogged down with trucks and empty trailers waiting in line to get their boats out because everybody is waiting to put in. I would suggest maybe have two lanes designated for boats going in and the other two for boats going out. It would also be helpful for staff to walk the line and see who is waiting to get their truck to the launch and retrieve their boat. Maybe have a staff member at the launch communicating with boaters just docking and make a priority list to get them to the front of the line to reduce congestion and wait times. The weekend of the 4th there was a lot of people coming out of the water because of bad weather and almost a tornado. The staff performed really well getting people out of the launch as quickly as possible. Great park great area. Keep it up.
Boater guy
7/10/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.4
Great campground
South Dakota has the greatest state campgrounds!
GrandmaO
7/9/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.8
Favorite campground
TDVT
7/7/2025
Nice Park
duggersd
7/3/2025
Last week.
Happy Camper
7/2/2025
Experience was not as expected.
Our experience was not as expected. We had just checked in to stay the night at our tent site, and it was about an hour to an hour and a half after check-in that we had to take apart our tent and pack up to head to Sioux Falls to take our puppy to the emergency vet. He had stepped on something in the grass near our tent site and wouldn’t stop bleeding. We went to the check-out station to notify the staff about our situation, and all she could tell us was, 'You can go ahead and go.' She didn’t bother to ask if our puppy was okay or if we wanted a refund since we weren’t able to fulfill our reservation, nor did she offer to give us a credit for another day. Needless to say, we were pretty disappointed
Amanda
7/2/2025
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
2.3
Facilities
4.6
Campinginyankton
Retiredman
7/1/2025
This place is awesome
Bill G
6/30/2025
Lovely time
SDcamp
6/30/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Camping at Lewis and Clark
Tony
6/30/2025
Fun time/hot stay
Laura
6/29/2025
Check in/check out
The time that we check in is so much later than necessary. I’ve been coming to this are in the cabins for almost my whole life and they done have anyone come in to clean after we leave. If you set check in time to noon it wouldn’t be as if we waist a whole day waiting to check in.
Annual visitor
6/29/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
4.8
Facilities
3.5
Quiet hours not enforced
Not happy
6/25/2025
Overall Experience
2.3
Services
3.0
Facilities
3.3
Camper review
Great experience!
Frequent L&C Lake camper
6/24/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.7
Ahhhhh
So relaxing. Our campsite was shaded almost all day. Didn’t have to use the awning. Nice breeze coming off the lake. It was hot out, but we remained comfortable. Too bad we couldn’t stay longer. The grounds were nicely mowed. Birds chirping. I think heaven will be like this.
GC
6/23/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.3
Amazing
Traveler
6/23/2025
Great Stay
The cabin was clean. The view was beautiful right on the water and close to the public beach. Love the trails. The only thing that could have been better is the A/C. We were not supposed to turn it off however the check filter light was on. I don't feel it cooled that well and it's still the beginning of summer.
SDSU Fan
6/22/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.9
Great as always
Love camping
6/21/2025
Stay in Cabin at Gavins Point in Lewis and Clark Recreation Area
This cabin is literally 50 yards away from the bank of the Missouri River. An outstandingly beautiful setting.
T75rsj1
6/20/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Stay in Cabin at Gavins Point in Lewis and Clark Recreation Area
This cabin is literally 50 yards away from the bank of the Missouri River. An outstandingly beautiful setting.
T75rsj1
6/20/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Stay in Cabin at Gavins Point in Lewis and Clark Recreation Area
This cabin is literally 50 yards away from the bank of the Missouri River. An outstandingly beautiful setting.
T75rsj1
6/20/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Stay in Cabin at Gavins Point in Lewis and Clark Recreation Area
This cabin is literally 50 yards away from the bank of the Missouri River. An outstandingly beautiful setting.
T75rsj1
6/20/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Camping
Happy camper
6/19/2025
Review
Was really surprised about the increase in entrance fee costs
Review
6/17/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
3 day retreat
Kiki
6/13/2025
Great family camping trip
John
6/13/2025
Lewis and Clark
We had a beautiful spot great view of the lake. It was quiet and peaceful.
Rose
6/12/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
A Memorable Family Getaway
Our family of four (plus two dogs) loved our week at Lewis & Clark! We stayed in Cabin E on Gavin's Point, and this was a bucket list stay for our family; we've wanted to make camping here work for years, and it finally worked out this summer.
While cell service was quite spotty, it was wonderful to unplug and get outside! We enjoyed kayaking, fishing, lawn games, frisbee golf, and more. We cooked using a tabletop Blackstone on the picnic table on the porch of the cabin, which worked wonderfully. The porch is wonderful, and since Cabin E is located right on the water, it made for gorgeous views!
The bunk beds were relatively comfortable, and the AC in the cabin was a lifesaver. While a garbage can is provided, don't forget to bring garbage bags with you, as they are not included!
Our only critique is the lack of a mini-fridge. Our children have to take daily medication that needs to be refrigerated, so we had to hustle a bit to ensure that our coolers were flush with ice throughout the week. We made it work!
We're excited to camp again soon. Thank you for a great experience!
GFamSiouxFalls
6/12/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.6
Camper review
Camper
6/12/2025
Short and sweet stay
Gin
6/12/2025
Lewis & Clark
Camper Bob
6/11/2025
Camping
Enjoy camping in Yankton. The bike trails are great and enjoy the friendliness of the staff.
Camping Crew
6/11/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Was a great place to stay!
Sassy
6/11/2025
Review of weekend
Mabbe
6/11/2025
Same day stay
Lindsey
6/10/2025
Wonderful camping experience
Blue Jo
6/9/2025
Peaceful place
Anne
6/8/2025
Beautiful Stay!
HG
6/5/2025
Wonderful Camping Experience
Happy Camper
6/5/2025
Fantastic restrooms !
We stayed in the same day reservation area for the first time last weekend and it was amazing! The bathrooms were the best, big and clean! The bike trails and hiking are wonderful as welll!
Teddy time
6/4/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.9
Great stay, great beginning to Summer2025
Kevy
6/4/2025
Perfectly manicured
CLH545
6/4/2025
Peaceful but SO unlevel
The pad on Campsite 211 is extremely unlevel and the whole site is uneven. The firepit is almost impossible to sit around because it's so unlevel. The site is shady and pretty with trees on one side. It's close to the restroom and lake path, but I would absolutely find a different site to reserve.
Camper2004
6/4/2025
Overall Experience
4.5
Services
4.8
Facilities
4.2
Perfectly on par every time!
Shiner’s crew
6/1/2025
Great park
Jake
5/30/2025
Great Stay!
The lady that checks for your park sticker at the front gate is so cheerful and fun! She brightened my day when I arrived on the weekend. The facilities are very clean and nice.
MO
5/30/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Noise
Our stay was somewhat exhausting. We had a group of people who liked to party at all hours of the night. We had young ones and they were not able to rest well. We didn't say anything about it the first night but the second night it was worse. So we did say something to the staff and they came by to talk to the group and it did help. But, why did we have to say something there was no one that drove by late at night to follow up on the noise and partyers until we said something.
Lee Ann Franklin
5/30/2025
Overall Experience
4.0
Services
4.6
Facilities
5.0
memorial day weekend
Brandon
5/29/2025
Memorial Day fun
We loved staying at Lewis & Clark. The cabins were clean, the bathrooms were extremely clean. I felt like they were patrolling the area often. Overall a great experience
Memorial Day Campers
5/28/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Relaxing Overnight at the Lake
Enjoyed our brief stay in a camper cabin near Gavin’s Point. Despite the fact that the park was full of campers, we experienced a quiet and lovely evening at the lake. Bathrooms with water and flushing toilets were a bit of a walk, but the pit toilet facilities nearby were very clean. The cabin is basic, but also cozy and very clean!
Camper2025
5/28/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.5
Facilities
4.8
Camping weekend
Love this campground! Would like to see 50 amp sites and full hook-ups. Sites are big, grounds are well kept and love the trails.
Robin S
5/23/2025
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
5.0
Facilities
4.8
Was really quiet and nice
Tim
5/15/2025
Great start
Great first experience camping in SD state park, clean, well maintained and beautiful scenery.
SDnewbies
5/15/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Great
Happypappy123
5/15/2025
May Stay
Was a little surprised by the out of state fees.
Farmer 1
5/14/2025
Overall Experience
4.3
Services
4.0
Facilities
3.8
Great views
Jeff E
5/14/2025
Great stay!
2minidoodles
5/13/2025
Early May weekend
Marie
5/9/2025
Camping great... Fishing???
Camping out of state park license seemed to increase substantially. Park as always was clean and lots of accommodations for walking, biking, and hiking. Late April is early so there were a few of our regular stops closed for the winter yet. If wish there were better fishing locations for bank fishing, we don't own a boat and love to fish but the Dam is difficult and not all that productive. Yankton lake gets weedy and doesn't produce that much opportunity to catch fish.
BEECH
5/9/2025
Overall Experience
4.8
Services
5.0
Facilities
5.0
Excellent experience
Skruffy
5/8/2025
Excellent
Mykidsmom
4/30/2025
First Timers
HappyCampet
4/30/2025
Off Season Camping
GTriplet
4/22/2025
Reservation system can be sketchy!
I made this reservation and then tried to change it (shorten it by one day). The website suddenly had some glitch and said my card (which is good) wasn't good and I couldn't get my refund. I wasn't able to cancel it, either. I've been told 5 or 6 times that I could get this reservation cancelled and get refunded. That was weeks ago and still no refund. (We made a different reservation on a different site and had a wonderful experience, by the way.)
southdakotaaveragejoe
4/17/2025
Awesome weekend
Nice quiet weekend was very enjoyable. Campground host Jerry made our stay even better by stopping by & visiting each day!
Ochcjo
4/17/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
4.7
Facilities
5.0
Ticketed fo having a current park entrance sticker
I would prefer this review not be posted. Since we received a survey, we decided to comment on an experience that occurred. Upon returning to our vehicle after hiking one of the nearby trails, we found a patk ranger had ticketed us for not having a vurrent park sticker. Our vehicle had a 2024 sticker, which says tight on it that it expires May 17, 2025. The ranger was still there and we asked him why he ticketed us for a valid entrance sticker. He said he did not know when i expired but assumed since it said 2024, we were in violation. We are nit sure if this individual did not have proper training or if he did not pay attention during his training. In either case, it is not a good idea to have someone enforcing tules when they don't know what the rules are.
Skruffy
4/16/2025
Overall Experience
5.0
Services
2.3
Facilities
4.0