The best cabin rentals in Cow Creek Recreation Area, SD
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Top-rated campgrounds in Cow Creek Recreation Area
Cow Creek Campground
1. Cow Creek Campground
Adventure until the, ahem, cows come home, and when you do deem it time to retreat, pretty amazing campsites are waiting for you at Cow Creek Campground
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Top-rated campsites near Cow Creek Recreation Area
American Prairie Antelope Creek Campground
1. American Prairie Antelope Creek Campground
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10mi from Cow Creek Recreation Area · 26 sites · Tents, RVs, Lodging
Antelope Creek Campground sits just off Highway 191 between mile markers 96 and 97.
While it is more accessible than other remote properties—you can reach us in a standard passenger car and park right by the bathhouse—the wilderness feels just as close. You can watch the local prairie dogs right from your lawn chair.
This is also one of the premier stargazing locations in Montana. With minimal light pollution and wide-open horizons, the Milky Way is brilliantly visible on clear nights, and meteor showers put on a spectacular show.
Wildlife & Exploration
In the spring, sage grouse leks come alive within a short walk of the camp. Our permanent residents, the prairie dogs, provide a constant soundtrack to the plains. For those looking to explore, the Antelope Creek Wilderness Study Area is accessible through a pedestrian gate just west of the walk-in tent sites, offering coulees, ponderosa pines, and total solitude in every direction.
The Surrounding Area
Our "Mars Vista" point sits near the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, offering views toward the towns of Hays and Lodgepole, as well as Mission Canyon in the Little Rocky Mountains. If you need supplies, the town of Malta is just 20 minutes away and has everything you might have forgotten to pack.
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American Prairie Lewis And Clark Hut
2. American Prairie Lewis And Clark Hut
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35mi from Cow Creek Recreation Area · 1 site
For generations, this stretch of land where the Judith River empties into the Missouri has been a gathering place — for Indigenous peoples, for the Corps of Discovery, for ranchers and explorers who followed. It still draws people to it in a way that's hard to explain until you're standing at the confluence looking upstream.
American Prairie has built three small huts here — each distinct, each anchored to a chapter of this place's story. They're comfortable without being fancy. The design keeps your attention outside, where it belongs.
The surrounding landscape rewards curiosity: the Big Sag, a vast open depression visible from the property; miles of biking and hiking roads; Judith Landing State Park downstream; and the White Cliffs section of the Wild and Scenic Missouri River Breaks — one of the most dramatic landscapes in Montana — accessible by river float.
In September and October, bull elk gather in the river bottoms. Their bugles carry at dawn. Cows move through the cottonwood corridors. It's one of the best elk viewing opportunities in the region.
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Recent reviews from the Hipcamp community
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David
2 weeks ago
Weekend Trip to American Prairie Lewis And Clark Hut
The views, wildlife and solitude are worth the trip alone, of course, the hut is a welcome modern convenience.
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