Sheridan Lake Campground — Hotel in Hill City

Made a two week long roadtrip out to see some national parks, Glacier, Yellowstone, Badlands, and mt Rushmore on the way to badlands. We stayed here for 1 night and I’ll say this was the most Mid to probably worst campsite we had.

The view was JAWDROPPING.

We got in around 7:30, without knowing there was a South campground and a North campground. Can you guess we went to the wrong one first? The women at the north camp host, was very nice, but incredibly irritated that we were on the wrong campground. I’m assuming it’s because there’s NO CLEAR DIRECTION for a north or south, and she had to redirect multiple parties. also no service so if you go to the wrong one, good luck getting to the other.

We finally go to the South end. The people who checked us in gave us vague intrusions on how to find our site and failed to give us a Camp Map. Mind you there are over 100 sites on the south end.

The camp host on the south end also ignored multiple complaints about a site that had a generator on late into...

Another Privately run Federal Park 😵 way More politics than if the federal government was actually running it! This issues are with the Head of the company not the host at least not Most of them! This is one of several run by that same private contractor in the area. At one time they thought they were exempt from accepting federal passes and discounts.! The only private concession that can refuse them is Hotels like the ones in Yellowstone Park it's not right but its how our Park national Park Or any Federal Park system is run today, I don't know if it's better than a Shutdown of the government we can do better by finding out who manages a location and avoid the ones rune by a...

The water was like glass when we arrived around 8. We saw cranes, turtles, minnows, goose and goslings. The absolute highlight as far as wildlife goes is that we saw a bald eagle swoop down, catch a fish and fly back to its nest. Phenomenal. We rented kayaks, which were Old Town Vapor Anglers. The kayaks were tippy and didn’t track well, but we would rent them again. As of 5/17 park admission is $7 for a day pass. The road to north shore was under construction and appeared closed but was definitely open for you to get to the...