Crescent Lake Campground & Backcountry Sites
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Season
- May 12 – October 21Open May 12 through October 21
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Crescent Lake Campground offers a variety of family camping experiences, including drive-in RV or tent sites, walk-in tent sites, group site, and a site accessible to those with mobility impairments. The campground winds along the shore of Crescent Lake, so most campsites are widely separated. On the shore of the lake is an additional single backcountry campsite accessible by boat. For information about backcountry campsites, click here , and see the dispersed camping section below. Fishing Crescent Lake for walleye, muskie, and northern is easy with a boat ramp and trailer storage area, a barrier-free fishing pier, and several boat storage areas for canoes. From Crescent Lake, it is possible to portage into several other lakes. A quarter mile trail gives a short hiking opportunity through a forest thick with conifers and birch trees. Downloadable information and map.
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Phone before you drive
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 · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($20), 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)0.3 miBaker Lake Rustic CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 2.2 miClara Lake Rustic CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 4.2 mi
Sawbill Lake Campground - Superior National ForestSuperior National Forest · 5.6 miWhite Pine Lake Rustic Campground6.5 miPoplar River Rustic CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 6.5 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
Crescent Lake Campground & Backcountry Sites 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 →