Mapped · not agency-listedUSFSUnpriced · confirm
Kawishiwi Lake Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MN · 47.83875, -91.10314
The site — Kawishiwi Lake Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,661 ft
State
MN
Coordinates
47.83875, -91.10314
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Kawishiwi Lake Campground · Superior National Forest · MN (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWatonwan Lake (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townForest Center · ~10.0 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelLockport Marketplace · ~23.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesLockport Marketplace · ~23.8 mi
- HardwareIsak Hansen Lumber & Home Center · ~24.8 mi
What the record says about the site — Kawishiwi Lake Campground · Superior National Forest · MN
- First come, first served
- No drinking water — carry your own
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Ask an AI about this campsiteOpens Grok already loaded with this site. It reads the same records this page is built from, and links whatever it tells you.
Ask about this camp →OpenStreetMap contributors mapped this site, and PAD-US, the federal land map, puts it on U.S. Forest Service land. The agency has not told us it lists it, so treat it as a good place to look, not a confirmed camp. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Weather outlook — at Kawishiwi Lake Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,661 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Kawishiwi Lake CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
No dated fire rule on record for this camp: ask the Superior National Forest.
Checking active fires & air quality…
Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Kawishiwi Lake Campground · Superior National Forest · MN
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater10 mi
- OOutfitter21 mi
- FFuel22 mi
- GGrocery22 mi
- @Mail22 mi
- LLaundry22 mi
- ShShower22 mi
- HHardware25 mi
- MMechanic30 mi
- RxPharmacy35 mi
- +Urgent care35 mi
- DDump46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 22 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
Nearby restrooms — around Kawishiwi Lake Campground · Superior National Forest · MN — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletKawishiwi Lake Rustic Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletKawishiwi Lake Boat Access · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHog Creek Carry Down · ~2.0 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWindy Lake Boat Access · ~6.6 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Kawishiwi Lake Campground · Superior National Forest · MN
- Surface water mapped nearby: Watonwan Lake (water). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Kawishiwi Lake Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Kawishiwi Lake Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Kawishiwi Lake Rustic Campground~0.0 mi
- T Lake Site 2~6.8 mi
- T Lake Site 1~6.8 mi
- Silver Island Site 2~6.9 mi
The unit that manages Kawishiwi Lake Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Kawishiwi Lake Campground are set by Superior National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Kawishiwi Lake Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
Agency page
fs.usda.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there) | auto:dup-merge 2026-08-20: same campground as the agency record 'Kawishiwi Lake Rustic Campground' (within 60 m, different source). Archived to avoid two pins on one place; the agency row is authoritative because the agency named and placed it.
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
Field check
Contributed by OpenStreetMap. We did not get this from the agency; the land-manager name comes from PAD-US, the federal land map. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Kawishiwi Lake Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Kawishiwi Lake Campground
Camping near a reservoir →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →