Clarks Ferry in IA -- Campground & RV Camping

Clarks Ferry sits along the Iowa bank of the Upper Mississippi River, shaded by mature trees. The campground features 50-amp electric hookups, picnic tables, and campfire rings at every site. Onsite facilities include an accessible fishing dock, a boat ramp, a dump station, a picnic shelter, two playgrounds, horseshoe pits, and a volleyball area. Anglers target channel catfish, bluegill, walleye, crappie, and northern pike in the river. Shady Creek Recreation Area and Wildcat Den State Park are located nearby.

Getting there: From Davenport, Iowa, drive west on Hwy 22 about 15 miles and turn at Clark's Ferry Sign (in Montpelier)

• Little separation from through roads or other sites here, a 44-site campground with the nearest through road 0.2 miles off.
• Estimated night sky: Bortle 4, a rural sky with a glow on the horizon.
• Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
• Most sites here have an electric hookup, with one on the water and most of them shaded.

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