Echo Lake (Minn)

Facilities were as expected. Unfortunately mosquitos were abundant 24 hours/day, making it hard to enjoy any time outside of screened tent or vehicle. Fortunately i had a kayak and could escape the bugs once i paddled away from shore. Tried hiking some trails but mosquitos would swarm so thick that it became impossible to enjoy.

Family loved it

Great group camp sight right by the bathrooms.

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Everything is good there except the road coming in to campground and road to boat landing needs to be graded. Campsites need class 5 gravel and leveled.

campsites need class 5 gravel to raise and level,and trails to the lake need to be brushed cut, bathroom down by beach needs paint scraped off and re- painted.

A great place for information on the National Forest. Helpful staff, maps, clean and interesting facility. Has restrooms, a picnic area.

Lots of taxidermy animals on display, and helpful pamphlets of area attractions and some businesses. Also fun and useful items for sale.

It's a beautiful campground, the only criticism would be the swimming beach area could use a bit of a make over. The swimming markers are on shore, last year too, and the bridge that goes over the dry stream is on the beach.
There are pluses though, the beach area itself is quite beautiful, and mowed regularly, and the sites are always kept nicely when we arrive. The bathrooms are always clean and well stocked with tp. The camp host is very friendly and works hard to keep it up.
It's one of our favorite places to stay.

This is the first time we have stayed at this campground. The campground is pretty nice and is located off the main road a ways. There are a few sites that have trails leading down to the lake however it is a bit of a hill to carry anything down there. There is a boat landing and a small beach close to the campground loop if you have a canoe or kayak to launch. The sites are fairly spread out but you are usually withing site and sound of the camping spot next to you. There are a few spots that are big enough for a camper , I was in site #16 and it was easy to back into that site. All of the National Forest campgrounds could use some maintenance work , new gravel , picnic tables , walkways repaired but it seems the government needs to spend money elsewhere such as getting more people signed up for welfare rather than maintain areas where people who actually work for a living and pay taxes and use these areas. Perhaps we could give jobs to these people who receive benefits and they could do basic maintenance activities and repairs throughout National Forests and National Parks. The bugs on the days we were there were horrible.....lots of mosquitos and biting flies so bring your bug spray. The campground host was very nice and knowledgeable about the area and he did a great job. Hope to get back again to this campground someday.