Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
3
Max Tent Pads:
4
Visit Date:
8/2/2025
This is a lovely campsite. It has one of my favorite features, a big rocky "front porch" to get water, watch the sunrise and sunset (yay north facing), and sit in the evening with a book. The heart is extremely well built up with multiple side rocks for stoves or prep work. There are even raspberries if you're lucky. There are several tent pads, maybe even more than 4 if you squeeze in or put a few back in the woods.
The only bad part: you can see other camps right across the river, and you can absolutely hear the frat boys one camp over. But, as others have said, this is a clear bug of Ensign Lake specifically.
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
2
Max Tent Pads:
3
Visit Date:
7/28/2024
Stopped here for lunch. Nice open site, easy landing. Didn't really count tent spaces but took some pics. Lots of hammock trees.
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
2
Max Tent Pads:
4
Visit Date:
7/9/2021
This is a great site - views are beautiful, with northern exposure for aurora borealis potential. Only complaint is that is quite close to 1226, and you get noise coming over from there and the sites directly across the lake. But you aren't camping on Ensign if silence/solitude is your goal anyway.
Kitchen area is large and relatively flat, with plenty of good hammock spots and easy tarp hanging. Area out in front with rocks is nice, easy to fish from (we had a little luck with smallies and norderns), and very sunny for drying clothes etc. There are a couple of trails leading along the shoreline and back across the peninsula. These are pretty neat and pop out at good shore fishing spots, if you are into that.
There are two spots for landing the canoe, both are good, but the more easterly one is more protected from the lake and has smaller rocks (but also leeches). No real complaints on the landings except that there isn't a great spot for storing your canoe(s) out of water if you are picky about placing it somewhere at least flat-ish.
Latrine is in good shape and is actually in a very peaceful, private meadow thing plenty (but not too) far from the rest of camp. It looked like it would be buggy but wasn't too much of an issue.
There are two obvious and decent tent sites, and one that is a little further away and isn't quite as nice (less flat, more bumpy).
Overall, this is a great campsite. We had planned for it to be our first night site, then we would head further into the wilderness away from the "crowds" of Ensign. We liked it so much, and the crowds (outside of obnoxious boy scout troops) were quiet enough, that we ended up staying here for our whole 5-day trip, doing day trips elsewhere.
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
2
Max Tent Pads:
2
Visit Date:
6/16/2018
Our favorite campsite thus far. Great view of the lake with a rocky front porch which also acts as a great fishing location. Campsite is just the right size for a couple tents and numerous hammocks.
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
4
Max Tent Pads:
6
Visit Date:
9/7/2013
This site has an excellent view, lots of nice cedar trees for shade and plenty of space. The landing is decent and good fishing can be found right out front
