Crescent Lake Campground features maintained outhouses, water pumps and public parking.

Above: Campsite #17 offers great views of the lake.

The Crescent Lake Campground is a Superior National Forest Campground. Built along the northern shore of the lake, half of the sites provide lake access. Public parking is available near the boat launch.

Sawbill Canoe Outfitters is the concessionaire operator of Crescent Lake Campground and maintains a store with showers, laundry, grocery and convenience items, canoe and camping gear rental, and a pay telephone--located 13 miles from Crescent Lake Campground. Although, there are no water, sewer, or electrical hookups at Crescent, it can easily accommodate large motorhomes and trailers.

Sites are $12/night with a limit of 8 people per site. With the exception of the handicapped accessible sites, all campsites are first come, first serve.

Campground Rules:

* Quiet hours must be observed between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. every day.

* Dogs are welcome, but must be leashed and under control at all times.

* There is a two vehicle limit for each campsite. Any car, truck, bus, trailer or ATV is considered a vehicle. Extra vehicles can be stored in the public parking lot free of charge. Otherwise extra vehicles will assessed a charge of $6/vehicle/night.

* Cut no green or growing thing.

* Fires must be contained in the designated fire pits and supervised at all times. Put your fires dead out before leaving your site.

* Leave your campsite cleaner than you found it. Remove all litter from the fire ring before you leave.

A warning about bears: keep your food inside a hard-sided vehicle with the windows rolled up tight whenever you are away from camp and at night. Bears love coolers.