Sandy Beach Camp

Sandy Beach Campground is located on the northern shores of Coralville Lake. The Coralville Lake Project is a multiple use project providing primary benefits in flood control and low flow augmentation, and secondary benefits in recreation, fish and wildlife management, and forest management. Coralville Lake offers boating, camping, hiking, mountain biking, lake and river fishing, swimming, picnicking and hunting. Anglers will find large and small mouth bass, crappie, walleye and catfish. The campground offers 58 campsites, including full hook-up campsites, standard electric campsites, and non-electric walk-to tent campsites. Amenities include modern restroom and shower facilities, playground, dump station, drinking water and an entrance station. The Sandy Beach Day Use Area offers picnic sites, a large group picnic shelter, boat ramp, fish cleaning station, vault restroom and lake access. Coralville Lake is located in the Iowa River Valley, just north of Iowa City, and the campground lies among a heavily wooded forest of mixed hardwood species on the lake's northern reaches. Whitetail deer, turkeys, pheasants, waterfowl, song birds and other species roam the lands around the lake. The Devonian Fossil Gorge, just below the dam, offers a unique opportunity to explore a 375-million-year-old sea floor and discover fossil remains of sea life that once inhabited this tropical marine environment, with twenty Discovery Points found throughout the site. The Lake MacBride Golf Course is nearby, offering nine holes among rolling hills, and several additional courses are scattered around the lake. Iowa City and Coralville offer the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the University of Iowa campus, hospital and clinics, numerous restaurants and shops as well as Coral Ridge Mall. Cedar Rapids has wonderful cultural, historic and ethnic attractions such as The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library and is home to the Kernels Professional Baseball Club. West Branch boasts the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site and Presidential Library/Museum. The Amana Colonies offer seven quaint villages with outstanding restaurants, wineries, historic sites and specialty shops, and Kalona is known as the Quilt Capital of Iowa and home to an Old Order Amish and Mennonite community.