The Best In Tent Camping: Minnesota: A Guide For Car Campers Who Hate Rvs, Concrete Slabs, And Loud Portable Stereos

If you subscribe to the opinion that televisions, Japanese lanterns, and electric guitars are not essential camping equipment, The Best in Tent Camping: Minnesota should be your constant companion.
Each campground profile includes:
Detailed campground maps
Key information such as fees, restrictions, and dates of operation
Driving directions to the campgrounds
Ratings for beauty, privacy, spaciousness, quiet, security, and cleanliness
From Zippel Bay State Park's birch-jack pine forest, overlooking the incomparable Lake of the Woods, to the Blue Mound prairies of southwestern Minnesota, The Best in Tent Camping: Minnesota is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites.
Whether you are a native Minnesotan in search of new territory or a vacationer on the lookout for that dream campground, this book unlocks the secrets to the best tent camping that Minnesota has to offer.


With one of the top state park systems in the country and a landscape of crystal-clear lakes, ancient forests, and prairies, it's no surprise that more than a quarter of the population sixteen years and older go camping. Author Tom Watson has selected fifty of the best campgrounds in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. From Zippel Bay State Park's birch-jack pine forest, overlooking the incomparable Lake of the Woods, to the Blue Mound prairies of southwestern Minnesota, "The Best in Tent Camping: Minnesota is a guidebook for tent campers who like quiet, scenic, and serene campsites.