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**Hazelton Recreation Area** is located on the east bank of the Missouri River on Lake Oahe just south of Bismarck, North Dakota. The lake is formed by the Oahe Dam in South Dakota, which was built during the Flood Control Act of 1944, commonly called the Pick-Sloan Plan. The lake and dam are named for the Oahe Indian Mission established in 1874 among the Lakota Sioux Indians.
Over 50 recreation areas are scattered around Lake Oahe, where camping, fishing, boating and hunting are popular activities. For more information, please visit the Oahe Dam & Lake [website](https://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Missions/Dam-and-Lake-Projects/Missouri-River-Dams/Oahe/) .
Visitors enjoy coming to Lake Oahe for its great boating, water skiing, swimming and fishing opportunities. Many species of fish inhabit the lake, including walleye, northern pike and yellow perch.
Many acres of land around the lake are open to public hunting. A wide variety of small and large game animals inhabit the area, including deer, pronghorn, grouse, dove, pheasant, partridge, squirrel, rabbit and waterfowl.
The campground offers 18 primitive sites and 12 sites with 50-amp electrical hookups. Picnic tables and campfire rings are provided.
Amenities include vault toilets and a playground. A boat ramp is located on-site and has a large paved parking lot, adjacent picnic tables, a fish cleaning station and additional vault toilets.
Lake Oahe extends from Oahe Dam near Pierre, South Dakota to Bismarck, North Dakota and is 231 miles long. Its 2,250 miles of shoreline are made up of mixed grass prairie dotted with trees that grow down to the shore in occasional steep draws.
* [Lake Oahe](https://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/Missions/Dam-and-Lake-Projects/Missouri-River-Dams/Oahe/)
For facility specific information, please call (701) 255-0015.
A $10 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.
Reservation changes and cancellations can be made on Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777.
For more information on rules and policies regarding reservation cancellations and changes, please visit: .
From Bismarck, ND, take University Drive south (road becomes Highway 1804). Continue 25 miles south. Recreation area will be on the right side of the road.
Camping reservations can be made at Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777.
Payment in full will be charged to your credit card upon completion of the reservation. A $10 non-refundable on-line reservation fee may be charged for some facilities.
This is a nice clean campground. The Park Rangers are friendly & drive through the park daily & warn the campers if bad weather is coming. They only have 12 electrical spots. They have way more primitive spots that usually only get booked up during the 3 holiday weekends. They should make them all electrical, because then they would all get booked up all.
Nice gravel pads, neatly kept, potable water standpipes, not a lot of shade trees but enough to sit under, power station has 20, 30 and 50 amp service
Only thing that could make it better would be a dump station
Quiet and peaceful area
Quiet, on the Missouri River, close enough to Bismarck but far enough to be a great, quiet spot.
Booked & camped there for Memorial weekend. Didn't have plans with anyone, met our neighbors & had a great time. Campground was nice, green & clean. The park rangers are very nice & friendly.
Very cool rest area clean restroom and looks like a old gas station with two old gas pumps out front
