Tailwater East Campground

The Tailwater East Campground is located within the Dam Complex at the Coralville Lake Project, on the east bank of the Iowa River below the Coralville Lake Dam. The campground offers 28 campsites, including full hook-up campsites, standard electric campsites, and non-electric walk-to tent campsites. Amenities include a modern restroom and shower facility, a fish cleaning station, and a boat ramp for accessing the Iowa River. Coralville Lake provides many recreational opportunities, including boating, camping, hiking, mountain biking, lake and river fishing, swimming, water skiing, picnicking and hunting. Anglers will find large and smallmouth bass, crappie, walleye and catfish. Several trails are within the Dam Complex, including Squire Point, Woodpecker Trail, Tailwater Riverwalk and the barrier-free Veterans Trail. The Devonian Fossil Gorge is just below the dam, offering 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; twenty discovery points can be found throughout the site, along with a cell phone audio tour. The Turkey Creek Disc Golf Course in the Dam Complex offers nine partially wooded and open holes. Coralville Lake is located in the Iowa River Valley, just north of Iowa City, and the Tailwater East Campground lies among a heavily wooded forest of mixed hardwood species on the east side of the dam. Wildlife is abundant throughout the project: whitetail deer, turkeys, pheasants, waterfowl, song birds and other species roam the lands around the lake. Iowa City and Coralville offer the University of Iowa campus, numerous restaurants and shops, and 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 is home to an Old Order Amish and Mennonite Community.