SOUTH UNIT
Cottonwood Campground Cottonwood Group Site Roundup Group/Horse Camp

Cottonwood Campground, pictured at right, is located in the South Unit along the Little Missouri River, 5 miles from the park entrance. It accommodates tents, trailers and recreational vehicles. No hook-ups or showers are available. Camping sites are on a first-come first-served basis and fees are non-refundable. The fee is $10 per site per night. $5 per site per night for Golden Age and Golden Access card holders. The campground is open year-round.

Each site includes a cooking grill and picnic table. Faucets with drinking water plus restrooms with running water and flush toilets are available nearby. From mid-May through September, flush toilets and sinks with running water are available. During the remainder of the year, a pit toilet is the only bathroom and one water faucet remains open. The pit toilet is wheel-chair accessible.

Please, familiarize yourself with the following regulations. Thoughtful compliance will insure that Cottonwood Campground remains an attractive and orderly setting for your future use and enjoyment.

• Campsites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Campsites cannot be reserved. When away from the site, demonstrate your occupancy by displaying your current camping permit or exhibiting other evidence. To avoid resource damage to campsites, occupancy of any one site is limited to one family group or a group not totaling over six (6) individuals.

• All wheeled vehicles, including trailers, bicycles, and motorcycles, must be operated or parked only on paved or gravel-surfaced roadways and pads. DO NOT PARK OR DRIVE ON GRASS OR TRAILS.

• PETS MUST BE KEPT ON A LEASH or otherwise physically restrained while in the park. Pets are not permitted on trails or in the backcountry. Dogs and bison don't mix.

• All drains on all vehicles must either be sealed or provided with receptacles, such as buckets, to catch waste discharge. Dumping of any waste on the ground is prohibited. Waste water disposal facilities are located in the side door of each campground comfort station. Commercial sanitary dumping stations are available in Medora.

• Do not attempt to use any campground facility for utility hookups (water, electricity, etc.)

• QUIET HOURS must be maintained from 10:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. Mountain time. Generators may only be used between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m.

• The operation of any type of audio device, including radios, in such a manner as to annoy others is prohibited. Portable generators must be equipped with an effective muffler.

• Open fires are permitted only in the charcoal grates provided at each site. You must extinguish fires before you leave, even if you plan to be gone for only a few minutes. DO NOT LEAVE ANY FIRE UNATTENDED. Collection of park vegetation, dead or alive, is prohibited. Fires of all types may be banned during periods of extreme fire danger.

• If another vehicle or camper unit attempts to move onto your assigned site, please notify the patrol ranger or any uniformed employee.

• The campground is off-limits to horses and all riding activities.

• The use of firearms or any other implement capable of propelling a projectile (bow and arrow, slingshot, air rifle, etc.), is prohibited. Similarly, the use of fireworks is not permitted.

• State liquor laws are enforced within the park.

• Camping limit is 14 days.