Echo Lake (Minn)

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.

campsites need 12 inches of class 5 to level sites,and toilets need to be sucked out at least once a month. Camp host keeps everthing clean in bathrooms. Need to clear brush 3 inches and smaller all the way to the lake so you can see lake from campsites 14 ,16,

Beautiful spot, lot of mosquitoes

Nice place!

I've camped here a number of times without issue, this time there were several.

Biggest problem was the out of service water pump. We were not warned ahead of time that there wouldn't be water available. Luckily the camp host was nice enough to share some of his water with us.

My name and dates reserved were not on the campsite post. Only the name/dates for the next weekend were posted. A number of reserved sites say empty all weekend. Not sure if there was a mix up or a high amount of cancellation.

Our campsite wasn't cleaned out. I assume this was because my reservation wasn't on the post so the host didn't know it would be occupied. When he saw us he skipped over the site he was working on to partially clean up ours. This was also when we found out about the water situation.

Overall the only real problem for us was the water. There needs to be a warning online or emailed if it's out of service. Camp host was great given the situation.

Great experience! Very relaxing.