Bellevue State Park

Beautiful views of Mississippi River from walking trails! Sites are decent size. Plenty of shade. 1/4 mile off Hwy on gravel to paved entrance.

I think if we were here when it is less buggy, we would enjoy it much more (4 weeks ago, there were no leaves on the trees and suddenly everything was in bloom!) First - if you approach from the north, you will see signs for the park that say no camping! But then there is a sign that says camping is two miles down the road, however, the sign is very easy to miss and we passed it. Sites are nice and spaced a decent bit apart. Site 15 has a nice shade tree. Bathrooms and showers are clean but there are no hooks in the bathrooms to hang towels or toiletries and the bathrooms are separate from the showers. The building has a cement walkway around it but you have to walk through the grass to get there. Beautiful overlooks from paved walking trails. Camp hosts were very friendly.

I live not too far away in Clinton Iowa, my wife and I love riding down the Mississippi river' we decided to stop here at Bellevue State Park, we had visited it a few times without our motorhome, we always kept saying we were going to stay here a few days the bathrooms and shower are modern they are probably about 5 to 7 years old they're in great shape there is a young lady a gentleman that works on the sites cleaning cutting trees if you have any questions they're very well informed there's another lady that's the Ranger, I believe her name is Amy she checks the area and if you have any questions she loves to tell you about the area, the sites are relatively level a couple of sites can, common date long 46 ft Plus motorhomes or fifth wheelers, about a mile is Bellevue a small little quite Rivertown has a nice coffee shop breakfast and you must see the Potters Mill Restaurant, built in the mid-1800s if you get there before 5pm they will let you go up the stairs and look how the mill was built, there are plenty of pictures and stories about the building it's quite something to see music on Fridays and Saturdays the food is Cajun New Orleans style, there's a park just a little down to block that you can get a view of the river and the town quite awesome. There are two ways to access the park one is two miles of dirt road try to avoid that one, the one North of that road is about quarter mile that would be the best one to go in, to keep your Campers or motorhomes nice and clean.

What a great surprise.
We stayed for two days with our dog and this is a Diamond in the rough…
Bathrooms we very clean and lots to do around the area.

We stayed at this campground on our way to South Dakota. It was clean and spacious. Our site was a pull through site. Very little privacy between sites.

Make sure you enter bellevue dyas campground into your gps to get to the correct location!

We visited The national Mississippi River museum and aquarium & the fenelon place elevator while we were here, both we would recommend!

Small state campground with beautiful views overlooking the bluffs. Very clean and well kept. Sites on the smaller side. Long gravel road if you enter from the south. Entrance from the north short gravel road. The campground is in the Dayes entrance.

I didn’t understand how close the campsites are at this park. Very little space between and no foliage ther are trees along the edges. We were I. Site 10 which is in the middle layer of the rings. Those roads are one small camper wide. The site above use looks down into our site. Kind of creepy. T-Mobile cell only.
This is a been there done that place to us. Won’t be back

LAST STOP of 2 month trip. Bellevue State Park, IOWA, site 7, $16/ night, 5/31-6/2/23, elec only. Interesting state park as there are 2 parts, the campground is in the Dyas unit, about 2 miles further down the hwy. The campground is very spacious for a small one. Nice gravel sites, grass and trees, plus a clean, newer bathhouse. The state park has 2 overlooks to the Mississippi River and a really nice butterfly flower garden. Sure wish more flowers were blooming. Have lunch at the historic Mill in Bellevue ( great bbq n Cajun) and check out the new Chocolate and Bakery Shop in town. Excellent riverwalk too.

I was here in early November. Only two other people in the campground. Pit toilets were open but no flush toilets or showers. Winter rate for no electric was $6.00.