Baker Lake Rustic Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
- Season
- May 15 – October 1Open May 15 through October 1
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Baker Lake Rustic Campground is located in a stand of red pine on the shore of Baker Lake. Unlike most other rustic campgrounds, there is a solar powered faucet for drinking water. It is an excellent first or last night site for people who are using the Baker Lake Entry Point to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness .
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…there is a solar powered faucet for drinking water. It is an excellent first or last night site for…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Crescent Lake (MN)2.1 miCrescent Lake Campground & Backcountry SitesSuperior National Forest · 2.2 mi
Sawbill Lake Campground - Superior National ForestSuperior National Forest · 3.4 miClara Lake Rustic CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 5.8 miPoplar River Rustic CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 7.6 miWhite Pine Lake Rustic Campground7.9 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lutsen, MN
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 49°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Baker Lake Rustic Campground is in Minnesota’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Pete Stauber (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →