Webster Lake
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Sites
- 1615 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located 10 miles south of Blackduck, Minnesota on County Road 31. Follow Forest Road 2207 east for one mile, then drive two miles south on Forest Road 2236, the campground provides access to Webster Lake, a picnic area and a large trail system. There are 15 sites available as well as a boat launch. Keep reading
Facilities
The Webster Campground offers 15 campsites, all available on a first-come, first-serve basis. No shower facilities on site, vault toilets located on inside of the loop across from beach access.
What the agency tells you
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
- 16
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “No shower facilities on site, vault toilets located on inside of the loop across from beach access.”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 15 of the 16 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.
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $14 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
16 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 16 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. 15 of the 16 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.
| Scan and Pay | Standard | type not stated | 318 ft | ||
| Webster Lake | 01 | standard nonelectric | 156 ft | 477 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 02 | standard nonelectric | 156 ft | 414 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 03 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 179 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 04 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 230 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 05 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 233 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 06 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 178 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 07 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 183 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 08 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 194 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 09 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 137 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 10 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 144 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 11 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 219 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 12 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 245 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 13 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 354 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 14 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 312 ft | $14 |
| Webster Lake | 15 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 440 ft | $14 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Bimijiwan Recreation AreaChippewa National Forest · 11 miWanaki Campground LoopChippewa National Forest · 15 mi
Winnie Campground - USFSChippewa National Forest · 15 mi
Chippewa LoopChippewa National Forest · 15 miCass Lake Campground LoopChippewa National Forest · 16 mi
Norway Beach LoopChippewa National Forest · 16 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tenstrike, 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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Webster 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 →