Buffalo Gap Campground, Sentinel Butte, ND

We stayed at Buffalo Gap Campground in 2015 and I did a blog post at that time, which you can read here. This time the campground was very busy with campers coming and going daily. We thought maybe it could have been because there was road construction on the road to Cottonwood Campground north of Medora, which is a popular campground and about 15 miles away. Buffalo Gap is right off I-94, so there is some road noise.

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This is a forest service campground with no hookups for $6.00. I found out the last day we were there that with the National Park Senior Pass we could have gotten it half price, $3.00! There isn’t anything mentioned on their information sign, I overheard the camp host tell a camper. You self pay at the information board/kiosk.



This year the showers and bathrooms were working. The road and sites are asphalt with a picnic table and fire ring. We stayed in site #13, a double site, which is by a trail going up a hill beside us. We did have some people going through our site to get to the trail. We had no TV, 1 bar LTE Verizon. The temperature range when we were there was 80s to 97 degrees.

                         

It also is by the Maah Daah Hey Trail, a 96-mile, non-motorized trail going through the North Dakota Badlands.