Onegume
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 3 of the next 16 nights read 15:50 UTC
- A night
- $16–$23Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4847 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
One of the Chippewa National Forest's most popular campgrounds, Onegume is located on Little Cut Foot Sioux Lake. It is near MN State Highway 46, also known as Avenue of the Pines Scenic Byway, in the heart of the Chippewa National Forest. Visitors come to the area for boating, excellent fishing, and beautiful scenery. The Chippewa National Forest and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe work together to co-steward resources - making the Forest a great place to recreate as well as a special place where cultural and traditional resources are protected and preserved and the Band’s treaty rights are respected. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating and swimming are popular activities on Little Cut Foot Sioux Lake. Fishing during Minnesota's season opener is historically very good. An accessible fishing dock and fish cleaning station are located on-site. A wooden fishing pier with a few boat slips are located at the water's edge. There is a picnic site located at the water's edge with two picnic tables and an open grassy area overlooking the lake. Miles of trails in the area provide great hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, and birding opportunities. The Simpson Creek Trail and Cut Foot Sioux National Recreation Trail can be accessed in the area. Little Cut Foot Sioux Lake is located next to and provides access to Lake Winnibigoshish. Lake Winnie offers excellent fishing opportunities for walleye, perch, and muskie. It is one of the state's premier fisheries. Boating and water skiing are also popular activities.
Facilities
This popular campground offers several single-family sites, the majority of which have 30-amp electric hookups. Most sites are large enough to accommodate 38-foot RVs. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. There are three accessible vault toilets and three drinking water spigots throughout the campground. Additionally, there is a fish cleaning building within the campground for camper use.
Natural Features
The campground is situated between Highway 46 and Little Cut Foot Sioux Lake, on the east side of the road, before the bridge. A scenic forest of birch and red pine trees covers the area, offering shade and privacy between sites. Eleven sites are located on the lakefront. The lake is home to a variety of waterfowl and birds of prey, including loons, osprey, and bald eagles.
Nearby Attractions
The Cut Foot Sioux Visitor Information Center is just north of the campground. A half-mile accessible trail leads to the center, which offers interpretive displays, educational programs, and area information. Several resorts in the area offer ice cream and other treats, and there is a small convenience store within a couple miles of the campground.
What the agency tells you
Fee includes one camping unit per site. Double occupancy is not permitted on single unit sites; on large sites double occupancy is permitted. The second occupant must pay the full nightly amount for each night of stay by using a fee envelope at the entrance kiosk. Please read the fee board upon entering the campground to see what qualifies for single and double occupancy. Vehicles and/or trailers must not block any part of roadways or gates at any time.
Some important campground rules: - Quiet hours are from 10pm – 6am. Generators cannot be run during this time. If you have a medical condition that requires powered equipment, please plan accordingly with battery backup. - Pets are welcome but must remain on a leash 6' or shorter in length at all times. Pets are not allowed in beach areas. - Campfires cannot be left unattended. They must be extinguished before the campsite is vacated. - Fireworks, including sparklers, are not allowed. - Cutting/damaging live vegetation is not allowed. You may gather dead and downed wood for campfires if it fits within the fire ring. - The use of power saws, including electric chainsaws, is strictly prohibited. All regulations are found under 36 CFR 261 and are punishable by fines.
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
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Bundled firewood is no longer available in Chippewa National Forest campgrounds. Firewood may be available for sale at local vendors or may be brought from home if within Itasca County. You may also cut dead and downed wood in the forest without a permit as long as it will be used in the campground. Chainsaw use (gas and electric) is not permitted in the campground. 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.
Off-highway vehicle use is permitted only to enter and exit the campground and must adhere to the speed limit of 5 mph. Operators must adhere to state OHV laws.
Reservations must be made at least 4 days in advance. After this window, sites are considered first-come first-serve. Customers with reservations may change to an open non-reservable site after arrival - please see the campground host as well as a sign at the entrance kiosk for more information. If you would like more site-specific information, call the Deer River Ranger District at 218-246-2123 before making a reservation. First-come, first-serve sites may be available after the reservation season.
Click here for more information on the Chippewa National Forest. For more information on tribal camping policies, click here.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 48 · 5 tent-only
- Hookups
- 42 electric
- Longest rig
- 26 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring. There are three accessible vault toilets and three drinking water spigots throughout the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…three accessible vault toilets and three drinking water spigots throughout the campground. Additionally,…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Berry Picking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fish Hatchery
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Mushroom Picking
- Paddling
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Visitor center
- Night sky · 52nd darkest of 77 in MN
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 15:50 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedNot reservable
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $16–$23 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:50 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
48 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 47 mapped sitesAll 48 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 48 of the 48 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MIDD | 020 | standard electric | 30 amp | 80 ft | 250 ft | $23 | ||
| MIDD | 021 | standard electric | 30 amp | 80 ft | 235 ft | $23 | ||
| MIDD | 022 | type not stated | 50 amp | 146 ft | $23 | |||
| MIDD | 023 | standard electric | 30 amp | 135 ft | 243 ft | $23 | ||
| MIDD | 041 | standard electric | 30 amp | 84 ft | 364 ft | $23 | ||
| MIDD | 042 | standard electric | 30 amp | 83 ft | 369 ft | $23 | ||
| MIDD | 043 | standard electric | 30 amp | 73 ft | 432 ftCut Foot Sioux Lake | $23 | ||
| MIDD | 044 | standard electric | 30 amp | 67 ft | 404 ftCut Foot Sioux Lake | $23 | ||
| MIDD | 045 | standard electric | 30 amp | 67 ft | 388 ft | $23 | ||
| MIDD | 046 | standard electric | 50 amp | yes | 102 ft | 388 ft | $23 | |
| MIDD | 047 | standard electric | 30 amp | 86 ft | 338 ftCut Foot Sioux Lake | $23 | ||
| MIDD | 048 | standard electric | 50 amp | yes | 86 ft | 390 ft | $23 | |
| NORT | 024 | standard electric | 30 amp | 91 ft | 129 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 025 | standard electric | 30 amp | 95 ft | 242 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 026 | standard electric | 30 amp | 91 ft | 162 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 027 | standard electric | 30 amp | 104 ft | 251 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 028 | standard electric | 30 amp | 87 ft | 167 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 029 | standard electric | 30 amp | 91 ft | 246 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 030 | standard electric | 30 amp | 87 ft | 163 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 031 | standard electric | 30 amp | 108 ft | 270 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 032 | standard electric | 30 amp | 89 ft | 200 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 033 | standard electric | 30 amp | 79 ft | 271 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 034 | standard electric | 30 amp | 79 ft | 347 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 035 | standard electric | 30 amp | 91 ft | 421 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 036 | standard electric | 30 amp | 105 ft | 383 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 037 | standard electric | 30 amp | 91 ft | 488 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 038 | standard electric | 30 amp | 129 ft | 384 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 039 | standard electric | 30 amp | 129 ft | 379 ft | $23 | ||
| NORT | 040 | tent only nonelectric | 169 ft | 426 ftCut Foot Sioux Lake | $16 | |||
| SOUT | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 26 ft | 150 ft | 410 ftCut Foot Sioux Lake | $16 | ||
| SOUT | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 90 ft | 480 ftCut Foot Sioux Lake | $16 | |||
| SOUT | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 90 ft | 502 ftCut Foot Sioux Lake | $16 | |||
| SOUT | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 64 ft | 557 ftCut Foot Sioux Lake | $16 | |||
| SOUT | 005 | standard electric | 30 amp | 64 ft | 557 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 006 | standard electric | 30 amp | 76 ft | 545 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 007 | standard electric | 30 amp | 76 ft | 472 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 008 | standard electric | 30 amp | 90 ft | 361 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 009 | standard electric | 30 amp | 89 ft | 349 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 010 | standard electric | 30 amp | 89 ft | 280 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 011 | standard electric | 30 amp | 105 ft | 194 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 012 | standard electric | 30 amp | 81 ft | 205 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 013 | standard electric | 30 amp | 87 ft | 286 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 014 | standard electric | 30 amp | 81 ft | 194 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 015 | standard electric | 30 amp | 86 ft | 178 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 016 | standard electric | 30 amp | 68 ft | 265 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 017 | standard electric | 30 amp | 68 ft | 258 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 018 | standard electric | 30 amp | 82 ft | 176 ft | $23 | ||
| SOUT | 019 | standard electric | 30 amp | 82 ft | 257 ft | $23 |
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 48 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Mosomo PointChippewa National Forest · 0.5 mi
Williams NarrowsChippewa National Forest · 1.1 miEast Seelye BayChippewa National Forest · 2.6 mi
Deer LakeChippewa National Forest · 2.9 mi
Cut Foot Horse CampgroundChippewa National Forest · 3.4 miOnegume is located on MN State Highway 46, approximately 18 miles northwest of Deer River, MN.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Inger, MN
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 51°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -5°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Onegume 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyPete StauberU.S. Representative · Minnesota’s 8th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationAmy KlobucharU.S. Senator · Minnesota
- Your senator, on the same appropriationTina SmithU.S. Senator · Minnesota
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Onegume, Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota
Dear Pete Stauber, I’m a constituent in Minnesota’s 8th district. I tried to camp at Onegume, Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 47 of the 48 campsites the agency files at Onegume, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Onegume keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Onegume. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Onegume (Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Onegume, Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota
Dear Amy Klobuchar, I’m a constituent in Minnesota. I tried to camp at Onegume, Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 47 of the 48 campsites the agency files at Onegume, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Onegume keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Onegume. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Onegume (Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Onegume, Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota
Dear Tina Smith, I’m a constituent in Minnesota. I tried to camp at Onegume, Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 47 of the 48 campsites the agency files at Onegume, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Onegume keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Onegume. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Onegume (Chippewa National Forest, Minnesota) via campanac.com