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Iowa State Parks cancellations
Sold out on Iowa State Parks reservations? People cancel all the time, and the site goes straight back on sale with no notice. Pick a park below and your dates. We check it around the clock and email you when a site opens. You book it yourself, in your own Iowa State Parks reservations account.
Our emails link straight to the open site on Iowa State Parks reservations with the night already filled in as your arrival date.
Iowa State Parks cancellation policy for campsites
- Every online reservation: a $4.50 transaction fee.
- Any cancellation: a $6 fee online, $7 through the call center.
- 2 or more days before arrival: nothing more.
- 1 day before: you also lose one night.
- On the arrival day: you lose two nights.
- No-show: no refund.
How far ahead: up to 3 months ahead, through the day of arrival when paying by card.
From Iowa DNR's state park reservations page, read Oct 5, 2026. Cabins, yurts and group sites often have their own rules; this is the one for campsites.
Every park we watch on Iowa State Parks reservations
61 parks. Or search for one on the alert form.
- Ambrose A. Call State Park
- Backbone State Park
- Beeds Lake State Park
- Bellevue State Park
- Big Creek State Park
- Black Hawk State Park
- Brushy Creek State Recreation Area
- Clear Lake State Park
- Dolliver Memorial State Park
- Elinor Bedell State Park
- Elk Rock State Park
- Emerson Bay State Recreation
- Fairport State Recreation Area
- Fort Defiance State Park
- Geode State Park
- George Wyth State Park
- Green Valley State Park
- Gull Point State Park
- Honey Creek State Park
- Lacey-Keosauqua State Park
- Lake Ahquabi State Park
- Lake Anita State Park
- Lake Darling State Park
- Lake Keomah State Park
- Lake Macbride State Park
- Lake Manawa State Park
- Lake of Three Fires State Park
- Lake Wapello State Park
- Ledges State Park
- Lewis and Clark State Park
- Maquoketa Caves State Park
- Marble Beach State Recreation Area
- McIntosh Woods State Park
- Mini-Wakan State Park
- Nine Eagles State Park
- Okamanpedan
- Palisades-Kepler State Park
- Pikes Peak State Park
- Pikes Point State Park
- Pilot Knob State Park
- Pine Lake State Park
- Pleasant Creek State Recreation Area
- Prairie Rose State Park
- Red Haw State Park
- Rice Lake State Park
- Rock Creek State Park
- Shimek Forest Campground
- Springbrook State Park
- Stephens Forest Campground
- Stone State Park
- Templar State Recreation Area
- Twin Lakes
- Union Grove State Park
- Viking Lake State Park
- Volga River State Recreation Area
- Walnut Woods State Park
- Wapsipinicon State Park
- Waubonsie State Park
- Wildcat Den State Park
- Wilson Island State Recreation Area
- Yellow River State Forest
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