2025 Road Trip – Butte View Campground – Bowman, ND – 7/4-7/5

We departed from Spearfish City Campground at 11:00AM MDT and headed North to Butte View Campground in Bowman, ND. We spent the full trip (131 miles) on US-85 which is a whole lot of STRAIGHT. Other than in the town of Buffalo, SD, I think we might have seen three or four homesteads once we were North of Bell Fourche, SD. We stopped for fuel at the Bell Fourche Exxon station because there weren’t going to be many opportunities along the way and the diesel prices are about thirty cents higher in North Dakota.

We arrived at Butte View Campground just after 1:48PM MDT. This is another city campground with the option for full hookups. Having just been in a full hookup site we opted for the privacy of one of the pull through sites on the outside of one of the campground loops with electricity only (for $26/night including taxes). We parked backwards in order to place our cabin entry door to the outside of the loop providing additional privacy. There are a couple dozen other campers here (mostly work campers), but only a few have vehicles parked with them implying most of them may be gone for the holiday. We have one other camper in our loop.