“located on the northern part of the Coralville Lake”
Overview The Sandy Beach Cammpground is located on the northern shores of Coralville Lake. The Coralville Lake Project is a multiple use project providing primary benefits in flood control and low flow augmentation, and secondary benefits in recreations, fish and wildlife management, and forest management. Coralville Lake provides many recreational opportinities, including boating,, camping, hiking, mountain biking, lake and river fishing, swimming, water activities, picnicking, and hunting.Recreation Visitors enjoy Coralville Lake for camping, boating, fishing, swimming and water activities. Anglers will find large and small mouth bass, crappie, walleye, and catfish. Facilities The Sandy Beach Campground offers 58 campsites to include full hook-up campsites, standard electric campsites, and non-electric walk- to tent campsites. Amenities include modern restroom and shower facilities, playground, dump station, drinking water, and entrance station. The Sandy Beach Day Use Area offers picnic sites, a large group picnic shelter, boat ramp, fish cleaning station, vault restroom, and lake access.Natural Features Coralville Lake is located in the Iowa River Valley, just north of Iowa City. The Sandy Beach Campground lies among a heavily wooded forest of mixed hardwood species on the northern reaches of Coralville Lake. Wildlife is abundant throughout the project. Whitetail deer, turkeys, pheasants, waterfowl, song birds and other species roam the lands around the lake. Nearby Attractions The Devonian Fossil Gorge is just below the dam, offering a unique opportunity to explore a 375-million-year old sea floor and discover fossil remains of sea life that once inhabited this tropical marine environment. Twenty Discovery Points can be found throughout the site. The Lake MacBride Golf Course is nearby, offering nine holes among rolling hills. Several additional golf courses are scattered around the lake. Iowa City/Coralville offers the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of Iowa campus, hospital and clinics, numerous restaurants and shops as well as Coral Ridge Mall. Cedar Rapids has wonderful cultural, historic and ethnic attractions such as The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library and is the home of the Kernels Professional Baseball Club. West Branch boasts the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and Presidential Library/Museum. At Amana Colonies visit seven quaint villages with outstanding restaurants, wineries, historic sites and specialty shops. Kalona is known as the Quilt Capital of Iowa and is home to an Old Order Amish and Mennonite Community.
Reviews of Sandy Beach Campground
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Ratings Summary
Cell Coverage
Verizon 4G/5G
Confirmed by 3 users | Last reported on May 23, 2024AT&T 4G
Confirmed by 1 users | Last reported on July 29, 2019Reviews
Price reflects NPS Lifetime Sr. Pass for an accessible, FHU site. (Last site available to reserve.) Campground is on Coralville Lake for boating, fishing, swimming, and not far from Iowa City or Cedar Rapids for everything you’d need. Very popular/busy on the weekend but noise wasn’t a problem. Frequent park ranger presence. Our site was paved and level but other sites of various sizes were gravel. Lots of green space and shade trees depending on site. Bathrooms were clean, showers roomy and with awesome water pressure, except temp was pre-set and almost too hot for me. Decent cell service with both AT&T and Verizon LTE. Hosts were available and friendly.
Nightly Rate: $12.00
Days Stayed: 5
Site Number: 20
RV Length: 40 ft
RV Type: Class A
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
AT&T 4G
We came from the Wisconsin side and two roads were flooded out. They had road closed signs up. We had to take hickory hallow street. Online it said the site was 49 feet, but approximately only 35 feet was flat gravel for parking. That was fine for us. Everything else was fantastic. We were super close to the beach at site 42. Had bathrooms with showers and a hot water station outside the bathrooms. Electric hookups, table and campfire ring at all sites. The woods twinkled from all the fire flies. Playground for kids and beach area.
Nightly Rate: $20.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 42
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
We were here for only one night and didn't spend a lot of time at the campground. Our site had a good size and there was good spacing between sites but offered no privacy. Our site was not particularly level. We had 3 bars of Verizon 5G and 16 TV Channels. It was fairly quiet when we were there.
Nightly Rate: $20.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 13
RV Length: 20 ft
RV Type: Travel Trailer
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 5G
Horrible experience here
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Parking
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Pets Allowed
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Restrooms
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Wifi
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Wheelchair Accessible
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Credit Cards Accepted
- Check In
- 4:00 PM
- Check Out
- 3:00 PM
- Last Nightly Rate
- 20.0
- Longest Vehicle Length Reported
- 40 ft
- Lowest Nightly Rate
- 12.0
- Max Length
- 71 ft
- Season End
- fall
- Season Start
- spring
- Sites Count
- 58
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Paved Sites
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Fifty Amp
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Full Hookup
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Pull Through
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Tent Sites
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Dump Station
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Big Rigs
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Open Seasonally
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Age Restricted
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Boondock
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Cabin Sites
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Dispersed Sites
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Firewood
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Fulltime Residents
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Group Tent Sites
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Laundry
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Mobile Homes
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Permit Required
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Potable Water
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Propane
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Public Water
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Pull Through RV Sites
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Sewer Hookup
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Showers
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Sites
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Standard Tent Sites
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Vehicle Wash Permitted
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Water Hookup
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