Good Place to Camp

[tisosy11]

Hey - I am looking for a decent place to camp w/in a couple hours from the Twin Cities. Located on a river would be ideal, Would like to try fly fishing this summer...

[yakfisher]

Try posting over in the fly fishing forum, I'm sure you'll get many suggestion on place to try some of Minnesota's fine fly fishing opportunities.

[IFallsRon]

St. Croix, Wild River and Interstate state parks are pretty close.

[reelemin]

White Water state park - SE MN, just north of Rochester. Awesome park. Trout streams, great hiking, beautiful bluff scenery and NO mosquitoes!!!!!!!!!!

[irvingdog]

 Originally Posted By: reelemin

White Water state park - SE MN, just north of Rochester. Awesome park. Trout streams, great hiking, beautiful bluff scenery and NO mosquitoes!!!!!!!!!!

And closed until further notice due to epic flooding that hit last summer.....

[reelemin]

really ? still closed huh. I was hopeing it'd be open by now. Have you been down there or do you know how bad the park got hit? Its always been one of favorite, close by, parks.

[Guppy]

There was a short note in the Rochester paper tonight that Whitewater will open for camping on April 11. Also, the park is east of Rochester, not north.

[tisosy11]

Nice - I might have to check it out sometime soon!

[blackdog1101]

Forestville St Pk is fantastic. Excellent trout fishing, and other interesting activities for the non-anglers. The old town of Forestville is within the park, and during the summers they have historical actors playing the part of townspeople. You get a tour of the town by one of the "citizens" of the town. There is also Mystery Cave, from which the South Branch of the Root River flows. The river literally flows out of a cave. Very cool.

The fishing is all brown trout, as I recall there are about 3 miles of stream within the park. We've camped there as a family several times, and I go there to fish usually a few times during the trout season. Highly recommended.

[blackdog1101]

Here is a link:

Forestville State Park

[Redlantern]

Wild River State park is decent to camp at and good access to the river for smallmouth if you want to fly fish, same goes for St. Croix state park.

[tisosy11]

Where is a good place to camp...for regular fishing?

With and Without a boat???

[Quetico]

McCarthy Beach State Park is always nice. Yet it fills up fast during the summer. The chain of lakes there has always produced decent crappies up to 13" regularly, eatable sunnies and good pike. I am told there are some good walleye in a few of the lakes but never caught any.

[Mike Fish]

Hi...I understand you are looking for a nice fish camp for this summer...I'm planning to go for a trip this summer..Fishing is my passion..That's why I have this site,and I wanna share this with..I hope you like it..One more thing,accomodation is fabulous,tournament prices is pretty tempting.

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[traveler]

He's looking for a place to CAMP buddy, not a schill for a Mexican bass outfit! jeez...

[tisosy11]

What it in teh world did that guy show?

[Powerstroke]

It was an ad for a resort......nothing more than an internet troll.

[Cicada]

If you care to venture a little bit farther, Maplewood State Park is awesome. Rustic as well as sites with facilities. Rainbow trout in a carry down access lake which you can also rent a park boat. Trophy muskie; (Beers Lake), trophy bass; Beers, South Lida, Twenty-one, and Fladmark Lakes), great walleye; (South Lida, Lida),big numbers of panfish; (Lida, South Lida, Twentyone, Fladmark, Beers, Grass Lakes) All these lakes are within or border the park. Great group of people run this park.

[afishrmn]

There is a campground in Monticello (River Terrace) where you can literally fish right from your campsite if you get a river site.

I have had decent success fishing there.

[tisosy11]

I can't wait until summer!

[zamboni]

 Originally Posted By: Powerstroke

It was an ad for a resort......nothing more than an internet troll.

And yet, he came here to Spam. What are the odds of that?

[HossFisher]

I would highly recommend Minneopa State park. You have lots of privacy and it rarely fills up with people. I have always had really good luck fishing the river around the park too.