Echo Lake (Minn)

I know it’s Minnesota but holy cow- the mosquitoes were horrendous.

Great people with a lot.of heart and a lot of knowledge. Worth the stop to chat and find out some real hidden gems of the Northwoods. Great place to buy permits. They have clean flushing toilets. The gift shop is well stocked BUT ALSO they have a ton of USFS swag and info for free. Worth the stop.

Many sites are nicely spaced out - from site 005, you can really only see other camping spots from the road/entrance into 005, otherwise there is a lot of privacy. Level spots for tents, parking space, and each site also has a picnic table and fire ring. Bathrooms were clean and stocked. Road and sites didn't flood in heavy rain. Roads to and from site are gravel but well maintained. Didn't have any issue with ticks. Mosquitoes were terrible, but that's not unique to this campsite. Overall nice campground, reasonably priced during the week - would stay here again.

Beautiful location just shy of Voyageurs national park. Plenty of space for our group of 16 people. Would stay here again.

Great experience! Very relaxing.

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.

Nice place!

Beautiful spot, lot of mosquitoes

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,

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.