Winnie Dam Campground - USACE
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 22All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
USACE Winnie Dam Campground & Recreation Area. This is a Corps of Engineers Campground, located just walking distance from the Mississippi River. Activities include camping, fishing, boating, picnicking, kayaking, and playground areas. All sites offer 30/50 AMP electric with water, restrooms & showers nearby. Keep reading
Recreation
Lake Winnie offers excellent fishing opportunities for walleye, perch and musky. It is one of Minnesota's premier fisheries. Boating on this 67,000-acre lake is also very popular. A boat ramp to access the Mississippi River can be found near the picnic shelter. The closest boat access to Lake Winnie is located 1 mile northeast of the park down Plug Hat Road.
Facilities
The campground, pronounced "win-uh-big-osh-ish," offers 22 sites with electric hookups. Amenities include showers, flush toilets, pit toilets, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp, picnic shelter and playground.
Natural Features
A forest of mixed hardwoods and towering red pines covers the area, housing an abundance of wildlife including nesting bald eagles, porcupines, black bears, chipmunks and many others. Wild blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries grow seasonally on the forest floor.
What the agency tells you
*This is a USACE Campground (Winnie Dam). Some visitors can get this confused with a U.S. Forest Service Campground titled: Winnie Campground.
There is a code for the bathroom/shower building, please see host for code.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22
- Hookups
- 22 electric
- Longest rig
- 104 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 22
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 22 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Amenities include showers, flush toilets, pit toilets, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp, picnic shelter and playground.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…showers, flush toilets, pit toilets, drinking water, a dump station, boat ramp, picnic shelter and…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Berry Picking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Playground Park Specialized Sport Site
- River Trips
- Scenic drives
- Snowmobile
- Night sky · 56th darkest of 77 in MN
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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 Oct 17, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 22 mapped sitesAll 22 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 22 of the 22 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. 22 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LAKE WINNI | 01 | standard electric | 53 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 514 ft | 444 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 02 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 99 ft | 485 ft | 547 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 03 | standard electric | 104 ft | 30 amp | 91 ft | 432 ft | 453 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 04 | standard electric | 93 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 394 ft | 566 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 05 | standard electric | 98 ft | 30 amp | 114 ft | 302 ft | 493 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 06 | standard electric | 100 ft | 50 amp | 79 ft | 394 ft | 641 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 07 | standard electric | 60 ft | 30 amp | 116 ft | 278 ft | 614 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 08 | standard electric | 83 ft | 50 amp | yes | 95 ft | 460 ft | 775 ft | $30 |
| LAKE WINNI | 09 | standard electric | 45 ft | 30 amp | 95 ft | 368 ft | 741 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 10 | standard electric | 104 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 527 ft | 872 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 11 | standard electric | 46 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 441 ft | 845 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 12 | standard electric | 90 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 670 ft | 979 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 13 | standard electric | 52 ft | 50 amp | 102 ft | 734 ft | 1,080 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 14 | standard electric | 84 ft | 50 amp | 70 ft | 715 ft | 977 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 15 | standard electric | 66 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 747 ft | 914 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 16 | standard electric | 79 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 653 ft | 866 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 17 | standard electric | 59 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 702 ft | 785 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 18 | standard electric | 94 ft | 50 amp | 78 ft | 625 ft | 745 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 19 | standard electric | 57 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 679 ft | 652 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 20 | standard electric | 92 ft | 50 amp | 85 ft | 600 ft | 634 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 21 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 611 ftLake Winnibigoshish | 531 ft | $30 | |
| LAKE WINNI | 22 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 533 ftLake Winnibigoshish | 444 ft | $30 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Williams NarrowsChippewa National Forest · 5.1 miOnegume (ah-ni-gah-mig[k])CampgroundChippewa National Forest · 5.6 mi
OnegumeChippewa National Forest · 5.7 mi
Mosomo PointChippewa National Forest · 6.1 mi
Deer LakeChippewa National Forest · 6.4 miFrom Deer River, Minnesota, take Highway 2 west for one mile. Turn right on Highway 46 and go 12 miles. Turn left on Itasca County 9 and continue 2 miles, then turn left at signs and follow 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 Ball Club, MN
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night -2°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
Winnie Dam Campground - USACE 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 →