Category Archives: Backpacking

2012 Potential Campsites

Name	Type	Tent Pads	Water				Setting	Previous	Next
West Kennedy Creek	Regular	5	Creek				2.3 miles east of Hwy 1. Within Wolf Ridge ELC boundaries.	7.8	0.1
East Kennedy Creek	Regular	6	Creek				2.4 miles east of Hwy 1. Within the Wolf Ridge ELC boundaries.	0.1	5.8
Section 13	Regular	4		From creek at base of cliffs.			1.4 miles from county road 6	5.8	3.8
Leskinen Creek	Multi-Group	6		Leskinen Creek (Poor water quality)			0.8 miles north of Park Hill Road	3.8	4.7
South Egge Lake	Regular	4			From Egge Lake		On lakeshore with view of opposite shore	4.7	0.2
North Egge Lake	Regular	4			From Egge Lake		On lakeshore	0.2	3.1
South Sonju Lake	Regular	4			From Sonju Lake		200 feet from lakeshore	3.1	0.3
North Sonju Lake	Regular	4			From Sonju lake, dock allows easy access		On lake shore	0.3	1.9
East Branch Baptism River	Regular	4			From river		River bank	1.9	0.6
Blesner Creek	Regular	4			From river or creek		In cedar grove at intersection of creek and river	0.6	2.1
Aspen Knob	Regular	3			From unnamed creek 300′ away		On knob adjacent to SHT.	2.1	5.1
Crosby Manitou State Park	Fee required	28 sites				Pump near parking lot, lake or river	Wide variety
Horseshoe Ridge	Regular	2				Creek east of campsite	4.0 miles east of Crosby-Manitou parking lot. On ridge overlooking Manitou River valley.	5.1	3.1
West Caribou River	Regular	4				River	1.0 mile from Caribou Wayside parking	3.1	0.3

Maps:

Lake County 301 to Castle Danger	6.3
Castle Danger To Gooseberry Falls State Park	9.1
Gooseberry Falls State Park to Split Rock Lighthouse State Park	6.0
Split Rock Lighthouse State Park to Beaver Bay	11.3
Beaver Bay to Silver Bay	4.7
Silver Bay to Tettegouche State Park and Highway 1	11.1
Highway 1 to County Road 6	6.8
County Road 6 to Finland Recreation Center	7.6
Finland Recreation Center to Crosby-Manitou State Park	11.8	2012
Crosby Manitou State Park to Caribou River	8.1
Caribou River to Cook County Road 1	9.0
Cook County Road 1 to Temperance River State Park	8.0
Temperance River State Park to Britton Peak	4.8
Britton Peak to Oberg Mountain	5.7
Oberg Mountain to Lutsen	7.0

All the campsites on the trail have a latrine. This one happened to be perfect timing….I won’t go into details.

http://game01doug.blogspot.com/2010/10/fall-backpacking-on-superior-hiking.html I parked at Lutsen Mountains Ski Resort. I took the shuttle up the shore 18 trail miles for my overnight trip. Started at Cascade River.

http://game01doug.blogspot.com/2011/09/three-days-solo-on-superior-hiking.html I used the Superior Hiking Shuttle to get me from Cty Rd 6 up to Cook Cty Rd 1 on the Superior Hiking Trail. … That gave me a four weekend to hike about 35 miles. I ended up completing it in three days.