Howell Station Campground - Lake Red Rock — Hotel in Pella

Beautiful, clean camp ground. Great views of the Des Moines River. Great place to camp. Wonderful bird watching opportunities. We saw several professional photographers taking photos of many birds. Pelicans, gulls, eagles, ducks, and geese.

There is a wonderful paved interconnected trail you can access that goes for many miles along Lake Red Rock. Just a few miles from historical Pella, Iowa.

If you have the America the Beautiful pass, the cost to camp is 50% off the listed price. Only $12 a night for us.

20, 30, 50 amping hook up. Potable water available. It is filtered and tastes good. Lots of clean bathrooms. Two showers in each bath house. Water is lukewarm.

There are 2 dump stations nearby.

The only drawback I had was there is scattered mobile service there. You will be able to make calls or text, but nothing else. Seek a campsite away from dam and you may get better...

We had a horrible experience, eventually leaving and just heading home. A group of 20+ people seemed to be having a reunion where they set up 2 to 3 large spotlights. when we tried to contact the camp host they very rudely told us that they were off duty and to call the Park ranger. When we called the number provided we received voicemail and left a voicemail and we still haven’t heard back. The entire campground appeared full and unfortunately the website was down, per the hosts. We would love to go back to this beautiful park however extremely disappointed with the rudeness of fellow campers and lack of help from camp...

We had site 38 reserved for june 4th 2021 at this beautiful campground which we reserved months ahead of time, paid for and got confirmation number, march 5th we get an email cancelling and refunding our money for the weekend with little or no explanation, after a little investigating their next response was they made that site a management site, extremely disappointed in they way they did this without letting us move to a different site which would have been just fine with us, to cancel a reservation with no notification is bad managing of your corp park, thanks for nothing, word of mouth goes a long ways with campers ,...