Jackpine Lake Campsites

Amazing as always. The wildlife is wonderful. We love the sandhill cranes, and the whippoorwills. Sadly the Loons were not there this year. We did hear Coyotes again. The new road in is nice.

New outhouse was awesome! The improved access road was improved, but not great, need more work there.

This was a really nice and spacious campsite, there were lots of trails around to explore and it had a really nice beach for swimming. The pit toilet was well maintained, make sure to bring your own TP. There were some wolves around the campsite checking things out but didn’t bother me. I have Verizon and had no cell service. Overall it was beautiful scenery and super peaceful only one other person out on the lake. I will definitely go back!

Arrived at my reserved site to find it occupied by campers that had found the site unoccupied the previous night and since cell service is not available at the location to call rec.gov per signage decided to pitch camp. Fortunately, they were friendly and immediately went about breaking camp but it took some time before they left. Just know it's a possibility and with limited cell coverage in remote locations could have been a nightmare to rectify.

Campsite is excellent
The fisheries department was out there surveying in the Lake half the days we were fishing that disrupted our fishing as they had eight nets out in spots that we were fishing. If that was published ahead of time, we would’ve chose a different Lake.

Campsite was great. However, the Forestry began a 4 day survey of the lake population by establishing 7 50 ft nets blocking fishing locations. Also, they officials were very rude when questioned. These nets trapped loons as when. We had to rescue them.

I've been coming here for years but it's time to move on. I'm bummed. I camped here for my honeymoon. I camp in a National Forest for the beauty and even more for the seclusion. If I wanted company I'd have stayed in a state park campground. In all of my times staying here prior, I had seen a ranger one time and once a car pulled up to turn around to my campsite, cumulatively over years.

In this past trip alone the rangers were out three times during a one week trip, and the last time was an hour before checkout on the last day. Sure, it's their job. It was a little overkill but that wasn't the big issue. I do wish they would have just waited until check out time. We had no less than six people drive up into our campsite. One time when coming back from a walk with the dogs, a group of people on dirt bikes were leaving our campsite. There was nothing else down that road. There is nowhere to turn around any sooner than the campsite. Every time I heard a gust of wind I had to wrangle my dogs because I didn't know if it was a gust or if somebody was driving up the gravel road and was going to show up unannounced. Again. I had a terrible week and couldn't relax. We did not have a single day without someone disrespectfully crashing the trip. Time to find a new spot. I can't believe how much traffic this secluded place had. This has never happened before. I mentioned it to the rangers and they just said yeah we have a lot of curious folks.

I do wish there was a turnaround farther down the road and some signage to indicate that the site is occupied since the people can't be bothered to check. It would be nicer without the extra company that I didn't want.

I've been coming here for years but it's time to move on. I'm bummed. I camped here for my honeymoon. I camp in a National Forest for the beauty and even more for the seclusion. If I wanted company I'd have stayed in a state park campground. In all of my times staying here prior, I had seen a ranger one time and once a car pulled up to turn around to my campsite, cumulatively over years.

In this past trip alone the rangers were out three times during a one week trip, and the last time was an hour before checkout on the last day. Sure, it's their job. It was a little overkill but that wasn't the big issue. I do wish they would have just waited until check out time. We had no less than six people drive up into our campsite. One time when coming back from a walk with the dogs, a group of people on dirt bikes were leaving our campsite. There was nothing else down that road. There is nowhere to turn around any sooner than the campsite. Every time I heard a gust of wind I had to wrangle my dogs because I didn't know if it was a gust or if somebody was driving up the gravel road and was going to show up unannounced. Again. I had a terrible week and couldn't relax. We did not have a single day without someone disrespectfully crashing the trip. Time to find a new spot. I can't believe how much traffic this secluded place had. This has never happened before. I mentioned it to the rangers and they just said yeah we have a lot of curious folks.

I do wish there was a turnaround farther down the road and some signage to indicate that the site is occupied since the people can't be bothered to check. It would be nicer without the extra company that I didn't want.

Beautiful and peaceful. This site is not close to Wetmore as stated on the gov. website. A bit difficult to find as signage does not indicate the site until you traverse back on the 1 lane, bumpy road. We have a camper trailer and no problem taking it slow. No cell coverage (At&t). Toilet was a bonus. Nice hiking trails into the woods. It is one of our favorite spots.

Beautiful and peaceful. This site is not close to Wetmore as stated on the gov. website. A bit difficult to find as signage does not indicate the site until you traverse back on the 1 lane, bumpy road. We have a camper trailer and no problem taking it slow. No cell coverage (At&t). Toilet was a bonus. Nice hiking trails into the woods. It is one of our favorite spots.