Dude Ranch Lakeside Use Area

A few miles off the highway you'll find a great free camping area suitable for big rigs. There is a low clearance bridge around 14ft and about 2.5 miles of well maintained dirt road to get there. It's a large gravel lot on the Missouri River.

You can camp up to 7 days, there is a dumpster and vault toilet. No water, electric or dump. Verizon was good for remote work and streaming easily on AT&T without boosters or antennas. Close to Chamberlain if you wanted to explore a bit.

While we were there we had a severe thunderstorm with hail and while the lot got muddy, we had no problem getting out. However, if you park down by the river it may get a bit flooded or muddy. A small ravine opened up with a slight flood and trapped an RV in down by the water. If you stay up on the large gravel section you will have no problem.

As stated by previous review. Road freshly grated, plenty of room for all. On the lake... Beautiful!

Great site with toilet and garbage.
We stayed the evening of July 3rd and there were about 10 other campers with room for more had they showed.
Nice little beach with a boat landing & dock.
Clean place with the hills as your backdrop.

This was a great spot. We were there on a Monday, and there was only one other person parked there. It’s free and has a clean vault toilet and a dumpster. Cell signal was really good on both our AT&T and Verizon hot spots. Verizon was insanely fast, 125 mbps down and 5-8 mbps up, and that’s without a booster or antennae.

Free camping seems difficult to come by in these parts so I'm grateful to have found this place. It's one large parking lot near the dock with a dumpster and a bathroom. The dumpster got emptied Monday morning. I can only hope the toilet will be emptied very soon.... Bring your own toilet paper. I stayed on a Sunday night and there were 4 other groups here. The best way to get privacy is to strategically park. The surrounding scenery is pretty nice- there are flowers and hills and of course the river. There isn't much in ways of walking around but again, it's free. Can't beat that. Ample signage coming in and the gravel road wasn't bad at all.

nice place to stay a day or 2, vault toilet dumpster for garbage larger rigs can get in and out without much problem
watch the video to see this place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3SMFtcZ5SY&t=76s

This area was completely flooded out 6/2/19. Even the bathrooms & road were under water. We drove to the nearby oacoma flatts, and that was flooded as well. Unreliable for now!!

Big gravelled area with several picnic tables, fire rings and right by the river with a little “beach”. The place is really beautiful and you can swim in the river.Some locals came and went through the afternoon to jump in the water but all left by the evening. The area was flooded earlier in the month as mentioned by another reviewer but it had been cleared for about a week according to local fishermen. Definitely recommending that place! Toilets aren’t the cleanest but at least it has some!

Large gravel parking lot! There are picnic tables, fire pits, dumpster, and a vault toilet (didn’t use). There’s a gravel road leading up to this place, but it’s a good road. It was flooded earlier in the month, but it was great today! Not crowded, just 3 other campers besides us. Gorgeous views of the river!

Beautiful spot. Right on edge of lake/river. Nice grass. Tent and RV there. Picnic tables. Toilet nice but no sink. A fishermen was catching walleye from shore. Pulled in around 10:30pm. It's DARK. Pay attention or you could drive into the lake! Beautiful in morning though. Low clearance bridge is over 14 feet so good for almost all campers.