Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
3
Max Tent Pads:
4
Visit Date:
6/18/2023
The site is flat and has a large clearing around its fire grate and is nice and breezy because it's on a peninsula. In a buggy year, it was a nice respite.
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
3
Max Tent Pads:
5
Visit Date:
7/8/2018
I don' understand the negative remarks about this site either. Plenty of tent pads, lovely eastern sunrise view. Decent kitchen when we were there. Fairly easy landing. Flat site. Close to the entry to the Frost River so if that is your route this is the best site for the early start you will need. This is a solid 3.5 to 4 in my opinion.
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
3
Max Tent Pads:
3
Visit Date:
6/4/2022
For me, this campsite is between three and four stars. This one is a little more open than the other two sites on the west end, so you will get a little more breeze going through (good during the buggy season). Gravel landing. Some large jack pines. One of the tent pads is close to the fire grate.
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
3
Max Tent Pads:
3
Visit Date:
7/19/2022
It's kind of amazing to read the wide variety of ratings for this site. It's as if people were evaluating totallyl different campsites. We found the landing to be 3 star - not the easiest to load/unload from because of a quick drop off and obstacles that make it difficult to land and get out, but overall it was fine. The tent pads are about as flat and spacious as anything you could ever wish for in the rocky wilderness that is the BWCA/Questico. Definitely 5 star in that respect. We don't do hammocks, so can't comment on that. Also don't know why the lower tent pad by the fire grate would flood, the whole tent area and kitchen area are flat as a pancake with no depressions that we could see that would collect water. What might be happening is, this being such a well used site over the decades. is the ground has really been compacted by thousands of footsteps, and so the soil doesn't absorb the water. Might also be the other writer had one heckuva hard rain, which happens more and more with a warming climate. Speculating there, but really don't see why it would flood any more or less than anywhere else. The kitchen as of summer 2022 is terrible - the logs for sitting on are rotting, and somehow someone managed to bend the horizontal bars on the top of the fire grate quite significantly. It's still usable but it is quite... disappointing, to see someone for some strange stupid reason known only to them would heat the grate to such a degree (pun intended) and then bend it all to heck and gone. So the kitchen is a 1 star. (Rhetorical question: what temperature must iron be heated to in order to bend it? Answer: A LOT!) Overall ambiance is always in the eye of the beholder - on the one hand it's very open and airy, on the other there really isn't a view. But it is located as close to the portage to head down the Frost River as you're going to get. We give it 3-4 stars for ambiance and, overall, 3.5 stars.
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
2
Max Tent Pads:
Visit Date:
6/18/2022
Hammock camped here for one night and found the site completely appropriate for that purpose. Had a total of three hammocks set up on the site. We didn't see any reason to complain about this site. It wasn't the best site I've ever been on but it was a completely fine site. Didn't notice any issues with the landing or kitchen areas.
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
1
Max Tent Pads:
2
Visit Date:
Not an apealing site from my perspective. Canoe landing is rough, site is closed in and lacks a decent view.
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10/20/2015
Site was not appealing for hammock camping.
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9/11/2013
Rating:
Good Tent Pads:
2
Max Tent Pads:
3
Visit Date:
9/11/2013
This is one of my favorite camp sites. It has two large tent pads. The lower one by the fire grate will flood in the rain.
