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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
