Offering essential details on facilities, reservations, fees, and more, as well as accurate, easy-to-read maps, Best Tent Camping: Minnesota presents 50 of the state's best campgrounds for car campers.

Tom Watson has enjoyed 30 years of camping in Minnesota, first as an Eagle Scout with Troop 22 in Minneapolis; later as a college student studying forest resource management at the University of Minnesota; and then throughout his life in various professions, including as a freelance writer specializing in outdoor subjects. Tom is an avid sea kayaker, naturalist, and photographer. He is also the author of 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Minneapolis and St. Paul and Best Minnesota Camper Cabins.

Minnesota Campground Locator Map

Map Legend

Acknowledgments

Preface

Best Campgrounds

Introduction

Northern Minnesota

• Bear Head Lake State Park Campground


• Bear Lake Campground


• Birch Lake Campground


• Cadotte Lake Campground


• Crescent Lake Campground


• Devil Track Lake Campground


• Fenske Lake Campground


• Flour Lake Campground


• Hayes Lake State Park Campground


• Huntersville Forest and Shell City Campgrounds


• Indian Lake Campground


• Itasca State Park and Hungryman Forest Campgrounds


• Jay Cooke State Park Campground


• McCarthy Beach State Park: Beatrice Lake Campground


• McCarthy Beach State Park: Side Lake Campground


• Mosomo Point Campground


• North Star Campground


• Owen Lake Campground


• Savanna Portage State Park Campground


• Sawbill Lake Campground


• Spirit Mountain Campground


• Split Rock Lighthouse State Park Campground


• Temperance River State Park Campground


• Tettegouche State Park Campground


• Zippel Bay State Park Campgrounds

Central Minnesota

• Ann Lake Campground


• Banning State Park Campground


• Bunker Hills Campground: Rustic Loop


• Glendalough State Park Campground


• Lake Elmo Park Reserve Campground


• Maplewood State Park Campgrounds


• Mille Lacs Kathio State Park Campgrounds


• Monson Lake State Park Campground


• Sibley State Park Campgrounds


• Snake River Campground


• Wild River State Park Campground


• William O'Brien State Park Campgrounds

Southern Minnesota

• Beaver Creek Valley State Park Campgrounds


• Blue Mounds State Park Campgrounds


• Camden State Park Campgrounds


• Great River Bluffs State Park Campground


• Hok-Si-La Municipal Park and Campground


• Minneopa State Park Campground


• Myre-Big Island State Park Campgrounds


• Nerstrand-Big Woods State Park Campground


• Rice Lake State Park Campgrounds


• Sakatah Lake State Park Campground


• Split Rock Creek State Park Campground


• Upper Sioux Agency State Park Campground


• Whitewater State Park Campgrounds

Postscript

Appendix A: Camping Equipment Checklist

Appendix B: Sources of Information

Index

About the Author