Cadotte Lake
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $26–$28Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2810 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 3 – October 1Open May 3 through October 1
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cadotte Lake Campground lines the western shore of Cadotte Lake in Superior National Forest. A boat ramp and fishing dock make the campground convenient for anglers, and the sandy swimming beach is popular among families. Superior National Forest, located in northeastern Minnesota's arrowhead region, is comprised of 3 million acres. The forest spans 150 miles along the United States-Canada border. Visitors can find recreation opportunities year-round, including exploring the famous Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Keep reading
Recreation
The 318-acre Cadotte Lake is a great spot to fish for walleye and northern pike. The surrounding national forest offers a wide variety of recreational opportunities, including hiking in secluded woodlands and canoeing in pristine lakes and rivers. View recreation guides and maps of hiking trails and canoe routes in the national forest.
Facilities
Cadotte Campground is in a wooded area with private sites, some of which have views of the lake and access to trails that lead to the water. Some campsites can accommodate RVs up to 45 ft. in length. The facility provides fishing areas, a boat ramp, dock and sandy beach.
Natural Features
Superior National Forest is known for its boreal forest ecosystem, numerous clean lakes and diversity of animals and plants. The campground lies in a mixed evergreen, birch and aspen forest.
Nearby Attractions
Numerous outdoor recreation opportunities lie within Superior National Forest's 77 lake access points, 13 fishing piers, 10 swimming beaches and 22 picnic areas. The forest is also home to three scenic byways.
What the agency tells you
Some campsites are available for long-term occupancy; contact the project office for information
Two pets per site
No switching sites upon arrival
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.
Reserved Sites will be held until checkout time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of the second day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests.
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
Don't move firewood: To limit the spread of invasive tree-killing pests, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Some states have quarantines and may confiscate your firewood. Please help protect our forests from invasive species by obtaining your firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for more information.
Click here for more information about the Superior National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 28
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 43rd darkest of 77 in MN
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 10 of the 28 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
“CADOTTE LAKE (Peak Season May 9 to Sept. 1) Campsite (no electric), Per Camping Unit, per night, $20.00 - $22.00 Extra Vehicle, Per Vehicle, per night $8.00 Long -Term Campsite*, Per site, per season, $1040.00 Long-Te…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $26–$28 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
29 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 29 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 27 of the 29 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 28 of the 29 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| CADO | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 392 ft | 402 ft | 66 ft | $26–$28 |
| CADO | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 64 ft | 204 ft | 326 ft | $26–$28 |
| CADO | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 60 ft | 204 ft | 267 ft | $26–$28 |
| CADO | 009 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 60 ft | 167 ft | 215 ft | $26–$28 |
| CADO | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 141 ft | 386 ft | 353 ft | $26–$28 |
| CADO | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 116 ft | 361 ft | 223 ft | $26–$28 |
| CADO | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 116 ft | 316 ft | 121 ft | $26–$28 |
| CADO | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 184 ft | 144 ft | 63 ft | $26–$28 |
| LS | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 141 ft | 312 ft | $26–$28 |
| LS | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 92 ft | 133 ft | 402 ft | $26–$28 |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 002 | type not stated | 268 ft | 85 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 003 | type not stated | 203 ft | 153 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 004 | type not stated | 263 ft | 128 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 005 | type not stated | 221 ft | 242 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 006 | type not stated | 275 ft | 245 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 010 | type not stated | 199 ft | 175 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 011 | type not stated | 161 ft | 116 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 012 | type not stated | 235 ft | 121 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 013 | type not stated | 366 ft | 465 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 017 | type not stated | 214 ft | 66 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 019 | type not stated | 115 ft | 110 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 020 | type not stated | 180 ft | 132 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 021 | type not stated | 122 ft | 182 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 022 | type not stated | 189 ft | 264 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 025 | type not stated | 190 ft | 436 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 026 | type not stated | 163 ft | 399 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 027 | type not stated | 222 ft | 403 ft | $20–$22 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 40 ft | $20–$22 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXXLake | type not stated | 40 ft | $20–$22 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 29 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Whiteface ReservoirSuperior National Forest · 11 miSand Lake Rustic CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 18 mi
McDougal Lake CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 26 mi
Birch Lake CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 27 mi
Little Isabella River CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 30 mi
South Kawishiwi RiverSuperior National Forest · 31 miFrom Two Harbors, Minnesota, take Highway 2 north for 25 miles, turn west on County Road 15 and travel 12 miles. Turn north onto Forest Road 425 and travel 0.6 miles, then turn on Forest Road 778 and travel southwest for a mile to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Hoyt Lakes, MN
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 50°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 31°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Cadotte Lake 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 →