Lewis & Clark Lake CAMPGROUNDS, Yankton, SD photo tour

[Ron Honner]

My wifey and I cruised our Lewis & Clark Lake campgrounds Sunday afternoon. We are located in Yankton, in southeast South Dakota on the Missouri River between South Dakota and Nebraska. We are the home of Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri River.

All of the campgrounds have blacktop paved roads and parking pads. Most have a picnic table and electricity on each pad site. There are restrooms and showers all over the many different campgrounds. Most are SD state maintained. A couple of campgrounds are federal. We are a jewel in our part of the state.

If you are a camper and have not been here, I encourage you to visit! We have a nice marina, great boating, water skiing and fishing.

 

[2fingers]

Thank You for posting pictures. Looks like a nice, clean, and quiet area.

 

[jkc]

The foliage is alarmingly green, the bathers alarmingly pink, when you're used to both being brown...

 

[nvgunner]

My mom was born in Yankton in 1920 and her brother was the IH truck and tractor dealer there, also De Soto/Plymouth/Chrysler dealer. My aunt drove around Yankton in a 62 Chrysler Imperial convertible--pink, w/ white top and interior! I loved visiting there some summers. Later we could find plenty of pheasants to shoot right out of town.
It is a neat little corner of the Dakotas.

Thanks for the pics!

 

[7003006]

I just got everything packed and ready to go, I'm headed your way about noon tomorow (today). I want to see alot of the Lewis and Clark sights in South Dakota this weekend.

 

[PRC74]

Very nice looking.

 

[BarbC]

That looks really nice. I love the little cabins!

Saturday evening after dinner out, my son and I were cruising the RV sales lot next to the restaurant. If I ever hit the lottery, I'm getting one. I wouldn't mind just a nice Class C but he had his eye on the big deisel pushers. I reminded him of the time we went to the big Outdoors Show in Harrisburg when he was little. He went into one of those deisel pushers and his eyes got real big and he said, "Buy this car for me, mom! Buy this car for ME!"

I'd do it. I spent every summer of my childhood in a station wagon, traveling across North America like a gypsy. I could probably convince Charlie to do it once he realizes he could still sit on the couch, watch TV and drink beer while I drove cross country.

 

[oldfella]

Man oh , man! - That is one fine park. If they had 100 more cabins like those two shown, I bet the park would keep them occupied year-round. Thanks for sharing those beautiful pictures.

Pete

 

[FirebirdV8]

I lived Yankton for around a year and grew up in Webster and Watertown area. I also worked at the Boy Scout camp next to that park for a couple of years. I have a lot of good memories from that area and from SD in general. Of all the things I miss the most though is people having that "SD practicality". The people I knew would work hard, try not to spend money they don't have, be civil to each other, and most importantly they recognize the value of family. Arizona is nice, but sometime I miss the color green and the places like Lewis & Clark Lake.