Flour Lake Campground
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 37All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 6 – October 21Open May 6 through October 21
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Flour Lake Campground provides a convenient home base for exploring the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW). Its scenery, amenities and access to outdoor recreation areas make it a popular campground for canoeing, kayaking, boating, and fishing. 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 travel in the famed Boundary Waters. Keep reading
Recreation
The eastern edge of Flour Lake has two separate portages for entering the BWCAW, thus this campground attracts canoe and kayak enthusiasts. Portages link Flour Lake with East Bearskin Lake and Moon Lake. Flour Lake also provides great fishing for bass, walleye and lake trout. Entering the BWCAW requires a permit. Day use permits are available at no charge; inquire at the campground host site. View recreation guides and maps of hiking trails and canoe routes in the national forest. The half-mile Honeymoon Bluff Trail begins a short walk up the road from the campground and offers a great vista of Hungry Jack Lake. Many additional hiking, mountain biking and cross-country ski trails are nearby.
Facilities
Flour Lake Campground has private sites, each containing a picnic table and campfire ring with grill, and several have views of the lake. Some are reservable, while others are first-come, first-served. Large RVs are easily accommodated. The campground has accessible vault toilets, a solar-powered drinking water system, trash and recycling facilities and a public boat ramp. A fee dump station is nearby.
Natural Features
The campground sits on the quiet shore of 352-acre Flour Lake in a stand of mixed hardwoods and pine. The lake features several shallow bays that are frequented by a variety of wildlife, including moose, beavers, bald eagles, ducks, loons, songbirds and bears.
Nearby Attractions
Golden Eagle Lodge, the lake concessionaire, offers many other services and conveniences as well as watercraft rental, coin-operated showers and approved firewood. By far, the most popular nearby attraction is the BWCAW, with over 1,200 miles of canoe routes, 12 hiking trails and over 2,000 designated campsites. Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Additional sites of interest
What the agency tells you
Flour Lake has portages into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness; when portaging or paddling from this lake into another, check if you'll be entering the BWCAW; permits are required to enter; permit information.
One vehicle is included in the regular fee; second vehicle must pay an extra vehicle fee of $12/night upon arrival.
Ten first-come, first-served campsites are available.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Click here for more information about the Superior National Forest.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 37 · 4 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 85 ft
- Accessible sites
- 5
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…The campground has accessible vault toilets, a solar-powered drinking water system, trash and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…vault toilets, a solar-powered drinking water system, trash and recycling facilities and a public…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Swimming
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 3rd darkest of 77 in MN
- Bortle 1
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:58 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
“second vehicle must pay an extra vehicle fee of $12/night upon arrival.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:58 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
37 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 37 mapped sitesAll 37 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 37 of the 37 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. 37 of the 37 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FLOUR LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | yes | 80 ft | 519 ft | 326 ft | $24 |
| FLOUR LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 75 ft | 449 ft | 292 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 67 ft | 411 ft | 244 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 67 ft | 461 ft | 233 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 392 ft | 184 ft | $24 | ||
| FLOUR LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 60 ft | 429 ft | 131 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 83 ft | 377 ft | 88 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | yes | 70 ft | 488 ft | 58 ft | $24 |
| FLOUR LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 70 ft | 457 ft | 107 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 100 ft | 592 ft | 244 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 80 ft | 557 ft | 295 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 80 ft | 570 ft | 358 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 63 ft | 568 ft | 310 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 63 ft | 521 ft | 273 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 72 ft | 506 ft | 244 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 63 ft | 411 ft | 151 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 63 ft | 387 ft | 128 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 021 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | yes | 64 ft | 242 ft | 174 ft | $24 |
| FLOUR LAKE | 022 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 90 ft | 242 ft | 222 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 023 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | yes | 74 ft | 239 ft | 181 ft | $24 |
| FLOUR LAKE | 024 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 62 ft | 221 ft | 74 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 025 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 81 ft | 217 ft | 55 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 027 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 95 ft | 295 ft | 181 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 028 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 63 ft | 386 ft | 269 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 029 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 79 ft | 353 ft | 295 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 030 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 63 ft | 449 ft | 323 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 031 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 72 ft | 441 ft | 357 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 032 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 83 ft | 387 ft | 73 ft | $24 | |
| FLOUR LAKE | 033 | tent only nonelectric | 56 ft | 407 ft | 223 ft | $24 | ||
| FLOUR LAKE | 034 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 56 ft | 352 ft | 218 ft | $24 |
| FLOUR LAKE | 035 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 102 ft | 352 ft | 151 ft | $24 | |
| LS | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 104 ft | 224 ft | 135 ft | $24 | ||
| LS | 019 | tent only nonelectric | 104 ft | 184 ft | 148 ft | $24 | ||
| LS | 020 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 64 ft | 188 ft | 145 ft | $24 | |
| LS | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 108 ft | 240 ft | 232 ft | $24 | |
| LS | 036 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 74 ft | 179 ft | 124 ft | $24 | |
| LS | 037 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 62 ft | 163 ft | 32 ft | $24 |
25 of 37 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
East Bearskin Lake CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 1.3 mi
Iron LakeSuperior National Forest · 9.6 miTwo Island Lake CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 12 miKimball Lake CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 16 miDevil Track Lake CampgroundSuperior National Forest · 16 mi
Crescent Lake (MN)23 miFrom Grand Marais, Minnesota, take Gunflint Trail (County Road 12) 27 miles north, turn right on County Road 22 (previously CR 66) and travel 3 miles to the campground road. Turn right and follow the campground road 1/2 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 Grand Marais, 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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Flour Lake 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 →