USACE · Mississippi River - Pools 11-22
Blanchard Island Recreation Area

No lengths published for any site here
- Longest for your rig
- —
- Booking
- Reservable
- Hookups
- water
- Entry
- Back-in only
- ADA sites
- —
- Elevation
- 548 ft
- Vehicles
- up to 2
Book on Recreation.gov →the official reservation system; we take no cut
Getting there
What the agency says about the road in. For a long rig this is often the binding constraint — a site that fits is no use behind four miles of shelf road — and none of it appears in the campsite data.
- Unpaved approach
To get to Blanchard Island Recreation Area you will need to drive on approximately 2.5 miles of gravel road.
quoted from the driving directions
Every bookable site
Length never published — 16 sites
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Within 60 miles
| Map marker# | Campground | Distance | Sites | Longest for your rig | Hookups |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shady Creek | 11 mi NE | 53 | 92 ft | electric |
| 2 | Clarks Ferry | 15 mi NE | 42 | 70 ft | electric |
| 3 | Tailwater East Campground | 36 mi NW | 22 | 68 ft | electric |
| 4 | Tailwater West Campground | 36 mi NW | 22 | 69 ft | electric · pull-through |
| 5 | Cottonwood Campground (IA) | 36 mi NW | 11 | — | none |
| 6 | West Overlook Campground | 36 mi NW | 89 | 73 ft | electric |
Everything else on record
- Bookable sites
- 16
- Max occupancy per site
- 6
- Reservable sites
- 0
- Coordinates
- 41.3475, -91.0537
- Nearest place
- New Boston
- Phone
- 563-263-7913
- Elevation
- 548 ft
Sources
- Recreation Information Database (RIDB) · fetched from
https://ridb.recreation.gov/api/v1/facilities/10113966· retrieved 2026-08-17 · public-domain - USGS Elevation Point Query Service · fetched from
https://epqs.nationalmap.gov/v1/json· retrieved 2026-08-17 · public-domain