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| Camden's 30e |
June 19-22
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| 30e |
30e
47 Electrical sites
15.8 miles of Hiking Trails
Dump Station in park
Camden has two campgrounds in the park. Lower campground sites are open for all to see, where the Upper campground has trees openings for each site. Both have electrical sites available. We stated at the Lower campground at site 30e, which is at the end on the outside of the loop. Small walk to the shower house from our site.
The Lower campground is right from the main entrance and up over the train tracks. And yes, you are close to the train going by during the night. I slept through the night even with all the noise. While our stay there wasn't many campers.
Dump station is on the road exiting the park. This is were the clean water is too.
A number of the building in the park were created by the Veterans' Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. In Marshall MN 205 men arrived in 1934 to set up camp and build permanent camp. These men worked with National Park Service staff in develop the building that still stand today through the park.
The swimming area was excavated by hand and creating cascading feed from a spring creek for water.
Company 2713 left Camden in 1936 to work at Fort Ridgely State Park.
Hiking trails
We took a couple of hikes in the park. One along the blue bird trail. About a 3 mile loop from the south picnic area. Second trail was to the north panic area and then to the Redwood Lodge Guest House.
This is the oldest building in the park. The Third trail we took was the Jones Mill Ruins, which was not well marked. And there wasn't much left of the ruins either. The trail was very buggy.
Brawner Lake, which is a man made lake is closed due to the dam structure leaks. The lake has dried up. We hiked the trail to see the lake and what was left of it.
The funnest thing we saw was a raccoon in the fire pit.
Dump Station in park
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| Lower Campground |
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| Lower Campground |
The Lower campground is right from the main entrance and up over the train tracks. And yes, you are close to the train going by during the night. I slept through the night even with all the noise. While our stay there wasn't many campers.
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| North Picnic Area Restrooms |
Dump station is on the road exiting the park. This is were the clean water is too.
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| Restrooms South Picnic Area |
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| Swimming Beach |
The swimming area was excavated by hand and creating cascading feed from a spring creek for water.
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| cascading rocks |
Company 2713 left Camden in 1936 to work at Fort Ridgely State Park.
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| North Picnic Shelter |
We took a couple of hikes in the park. One along the blue bird trail. About a 3 mile loop from the south picnic area. Second trail was to the north panic area and then to the Redwood Lodge Guest House.
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| Redwood Lodge |
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| Jones Mill Historic Site |
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| Brawner Lake |
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