BWCA Campsite 836 on Beth

Absolutely gorgeous view of Beth Lake. Our family felt like this was the best "wilderness" site, despite being a pretty easy portage from Alton. We stayed two nights and both nights we were pretty sure only one other site on the lake was occupied, and all three sites were very far from this one. However, there was a lot of "through traffic" to other lakes. We saw a lot of wildlife here. Decent cooking area. We weathered a massive thunderstorm here and found that the entire kitchen becomes a river -- fortunately we had placed our tarp over an area down by one of the landings that was protected by a log so we stayed dry. Could only find two solid tent pads -- a third tent would work between the cook area and the water, but that area was inundated during a storm so beware. I tarped it in the upper pad in the woods and woke up to find my stuff covered in slugs. Someone left some homemade portage carts here. How long have they been sitting here?

Beautiful site, but not wind protected. We had lunch here. The lake is just very pretty in general with large elevated rocks near the portage for jumping in. Would love to stay here next time.