Black River Harbor Campground

This is a beautiful campground! The sites are spacious and tree-covered and the roads asphalt. The harbor with its swinging bridge and path leading to Rainbow Falls is spectacular. When water returns, it will be an incredible experience.

This is an awesome campground. The cleanest pit toilet I have ever been in. The grounds are immaculate. Each site has a paved apron, fire pit and grate. Highly recommend this. My Verizon cell phones did not have any reception.

waterfall hikes were wonderful. could use better restrooms

Bring your own water for camping.
Take time to see all the nearby water falls and sun sets.

Loved the size of the sites, and the proximity to Lake Superior. The only drawback was the lack of potable water, but we came prepared. Site #18 was beautiful, and has the best view.

Convenient to town
Fresh water
Clean bathrooms
Quite

It's a beautiful area, but (once again) we were surprised to not have potable water available at the campground. The black flies were nearly unbearable at the campsite. They congregate around the picnic tables so I'm guessing that campers leaving food waste are contributing to this problem. The Lake Superior beach was spectacular and we also enjoyed the falls.

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We always love our visit to Black River Harbor, and the addition of Black top was nice. However, it was disappointing that the work although just complete 2 weeks ago was poorly done, the base applied was not properly compacted which left the shoulders soft and road already with sinking low spots. So enough of the poor construction paid for by tax payer money. We were there from Thursday through Sunday, the pit toilets were without toilet paper and not cleaned, in fact we did not see any park staff until just as we were leaving on Sunday at which time they did mow and clean the bathrooms. There is no working water potable or non-potable. The bathrooms and water we were prepared for and easily dealt with. The most disappointing is the horrible condition of the trails along the falls, the wooden walks are in disrepair, rotten sections blocked off, stairs with large chunks of rebar sticking up. I have never seen National Forest trails is such disrepair. If you like to hike be extremely careful, loose, and rotten trail boards are the norm. It certainly looks like the Ottawa National forest management has just checked out on the Black River Recreation area. Sad.

We came for a night of tent camping on the way to Maryland from Minnesota and arrived in time to enjoy an evening at the campground. We hadn’t expected there to be no water so we didn’t come with any. Fortunately another couple shared a gallon with us. The bathrooms were well kept and clean. The location is great but adding a well would do wonders.