Archaeological excavations at this site have found stone tools and fish bone that show people have camped and fished here for as many as 10,000 years. The Knutson Dam Recreation Area, located off of the Scenic Highway (Beltrami County Highway 39) in the Blackduck District, is currently a campground and boat launch where people gather to camp and fish. Several locations on the Forest illustrate the long term and current use of the land. Today, nearly half of the National Forest falls within the boundaries of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe Reservation. So here is the not very helpful map of the tent sites.The ancestors of the Dakota and Ojibwe occupied this region for thousands of years before the Chippewa National Forest was created. Map avaialable of all the tent sites and details because you need that before you arrive so you can have a game plan. Trucks filled with people reving over speed bumps and thinking it is so fun is really idiotic. And not driving by tents at 3 am.people are trying to sleep. Maybe doing a check out to ensure the sites are being left clean etc is a good idea. When you have a child with a major fear of dogs, then a random dog is there it becomes a major issue. I wish you could reserve tent sites because there is only one site we would ever use and i wish they would enforce the 'no pet' rule. We may go back for a day visit to play in the river but will probably find a new camp place. Just wasnt a fan of the inconsiderate morons occupying most the sites. We had brought our own water to wash our kids in it anways so they said we were fine. But security confronted us about our small blow up pool we had because they have a no pool rule skmply because they dont want people using too much of their well water.

Some people have less than average judgement skills.stupid people doing stupid things.

This kept me awake, as well as many cars coming and going. We got super lucky and found THE BEST spot and were very happy it was private with no neighbors in sight eventhough all sites were getting full by saturday. Other reviewers somehow were unaware but we knew good and well via website and phonecall about the no water. Sad that it was dried up but better we didnt have water that would make us sick due to the algae bloom. I went here as a kid and rememebered the river.

Indian reservation map