Sylvania Wilderness Backcountry Camping

Amazing! Only thing I wish was better is identifying the portages. I couldn’t not find the portage from crooked lake (water side) into Corey Lake.

Best bass fishing if my life. All other campers we saw (rarely) were kind and courteous. Can’t wait to get back!

Fishing and campsite were good. Mosquitoes were HORRIBLE. I left two days early and tried to get a refund, but the website said there was a problem issuing a refund.

Sylvania is a great place experience the outdoors. Whether fishing, paddling or camping, it’s all right there. A day or a week, there’s plenty of lakes to satisfy one’s wanderlust

Sylvania Wilderness Area is an exceptional place. Unfortunately for us, the mosquitoes were exceptional, too. Worst I'd ever experienced anywhere, and I'm a 62 seasoned veteran of wilderness canoe camping! that said, every other thing about Sylvania Wilderness Area was exceptionally fine, including the utter lack of garbage, trash, and plastic bits (omnipresent in so many places in the world. Keep up the fine work!

We had a great trip. Two adult brothers and their mom in one canoe. Parked and put in at Crooked Lake. Paddled South and portaged to Mountain Lake and camped at Lynx 1. Next day portaged to East Bear Lake and camped at Wolf. Last day portaged out through High Lake. The campsites were great. Plenty of room and nice fire rings. Fishing was very good on Mountain Lake and pretty good on West Bear. We went in early June and the mosquitos were terrible. We had to wear nets and long sleeves anytime we were on land. But we got used to it and it didn't ruin our trip. We usually go to BWCA and we decided to try a short trip to Sylvania as a warm-up this year. It really is like a mini-BWCA. I would definitely go back.

Sylvania Wilderness is an excellent backcountry experience for first time hiker and canoeist. The hiking and portage trails do receive some maintenance. It is nice smaller version of the BWCA experience that almost anyone can do.

Beautiful forested area. We canoed in and tent camped. Nice fire ring and close proximity to hiking trail that goes around the park. Pit toilet located up a steep hill that can be slippery when wet, with drop offs in right side going up. Plenty of dead wood laying around for us to have fires ( this was In Mid September). It rained half of our trip so we left early while we were still able to dry our equipment out and head back across the lake. Insects were nearly absent at that time of year which was very nice. We were not able to swim off the sites canoe slip. Too mucky , weedy. Took canoe to another location the was more rocky/sandy.
Overall a beautiful area and time of year! The Loons were out both nights and we heard their haunting calls on and off all night!

Great backwoods/northwoods experience - very quiet and relaxing. Fishing was excellent. Sylvania Wilderness is the best! Our family has been coming here for 10 years.

After hearing about it for many years, we finally made it to Sylvania for a three day/two night trip. We had a very nice campsite, raccoon on Highlake. Took a couple of day trips and hiked around Clark lake quite a bit. The groves of old hardwood hemlocks are really spectacular. We will definitely be back.