Norway Beach Loop
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $21From, per site
- Sites
- 5350 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Norway Beach Loop is part of the Norway Beach Recreation Area on the southern shores of beautiful Cass Lake in north central Minnesota. Visitors enjoy the area for its excellent boating and fishing opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Cass Lake offers many recreational activities, including boating, canoeing, water skiing and swimming. Anglers fish for walleye, Northern pike, perch and trophy muskie, with a boat ramp nearby. Star Island, in the middle of Cass Lake, is a unique feature of the Chippewa National Forest. Six miles of trails wind around the island, which is home to 199-acre Lake Windigo. Hiking and biking trails are available in the area, including the Migizi Bike Trail and the Norway Beach Trail. The Norway Beach Visitor Center is nearby. This building, with its magnificent fireplace, is a monument to the talents and craftsmanship of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees. Programs and displays depict Dakota and Ojibway heritage and the area's flora and fauna. Special annual events are held at the center, including a Kids Fishing Day in June, Bald Eagle Day in July and Smokey Bear's Birthday Party in August. Interpretive programs are offered Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
Facilities
Norway Beach Loop offers numerous campsites, each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The campground is situated 500 ft. from the banks of Cass Lake, in a forest of red and white pines. Cass Lake is the largest of eight lakes that make up the Cass Lake Chain of Lakes. The lake covers nearly 16,000 acres and has 27 miles of forested shoreline and sandy beaches.
Nearby Attractions
The town of Cass Lake, Minnesota is 4 miles west of the campground, offering restaurants, a bank, grocery and hardware stores, a movie theater and museum. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (218) 835-4291.
What the agency tells you
Fee includes one camping unit (camper, RV, pop-up, family tent) per site; additional units will be charged an additional fee
Click here for more information on the Chippewa 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.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Northern Minnesota is home to black bears. Campers must keep coolers and other bear attractants locked inside hard-sided campers or in vehicles when not attended, including overnight. Black bears are present and active within the campground area. Feeding any wildlife, including hanging bird feeders, is strictly prohibited. NEW FOR 2025: Chippewa National Forest Campground Food Storage Order
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 53
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire ring. Flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water are provided. Natural…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Flush and vault toilets, showers and drinking water are provided. Natural Features The campground is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 68th darkest of 77 in MN
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 50 of the 53 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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $21 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
80 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 48 mapped sitesAll 80 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 53 of the 80 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.
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 99 ft | $21 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX10 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX11 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX12 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX13 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX14 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX15 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX16 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX17 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX18 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX19 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX20 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX21 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX22 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX23 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX24 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX25 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX26 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX5 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX6 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX7 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX8 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX9 | unnamed record | $21 | |||
| NORW | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 60 ft | 643 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 025 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 60 ft | 700 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 026 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 75 ft | 669 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 027 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 75 ft | 741 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 028 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 69 ft | 708 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 029 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 69 ft | 771 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 030 | type not stated | 60 ft | 673 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 031 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 69 ft | 654 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 032 | type not stated | 55 ft | 615 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 632 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 034 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 69 ft | 586 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 035 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 63 ft | 605 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 036 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 66 ft | 552 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 037 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 69 ft | 518 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 038 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 69 ft | 466 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 039 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 68 ft | 395 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 040 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 55 ft | 346 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 041 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 68 ft | 446 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 042 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 55 ft | 333 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 043 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 70 ft | 405 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 044 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 78 ft | 373 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 046 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 78 ft | 394 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 047 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 90 ft | 480 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 048 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 54 ft | 437 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 049 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 85 ft | 531 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 050 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 54 ft | 446 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 051 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 88 ft | 504 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 052 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 88 ft | 421 ft | $21 |
| NORW | 053 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 415 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 054 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 488 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 055 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 404 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 056 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 462 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 057 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 387 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 058 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 429 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 059 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 370 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 060 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 414 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 061 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 358 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 062 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 406 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 063 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 341 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 064 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 403 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 065 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 517 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 066 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 564 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 067 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 509 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 068 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 597 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 069 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 546 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 070 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 618 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 073 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 556 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 074 | standard nonelectric | $21 | |||
| NORW | 075 | standard nonelectric | $21 | |||
| NORW | 076 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 693 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 077 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 638 ft | $21 | |
| NORW | 078 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 689 ft | $21 | |
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | $21 |
The agency files 27 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 80 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Wanaki LoopChippewa National Forest · 0.0 miCass Lake Campground LoopChippewa National Forest · 0.4 mi
Chippewa LoopChippewa National Forest · 0.7 miWanaki Campground LoopChippewa National Forest · 0.7 mi
Cass Lake Loop3.8 mi
South Pike BayChippewa National Forest · 4.4 miFrom Cass Lake, Minnesota, take U.S. Highway 2 east for 4 miles to the Norway Beach Recreation Area. Turn left and follow the campground road until the signs indicate the Norway Loop.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cass Lake, MN
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -4°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 more
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
Norway Beach Loop 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 →