Black Beach Campground

We stayed in site 28, sewer, water and electric, a nice site. The bathrooms/showers are clean and a nice designed. Campsites are well maintained and easy to get into.

Nice walk to Black Beach.

Would be nice if they had an “official” walking path from lower campground sites up to bathrooms/showers.

People were respectful of quiet times.

Stayed here summer of 2020 and 2021. Beautiful beach in walking distance. Camp site lacks shade trees, but none the less has nice restrooms and showers. Lots to explore in the area, most a short drive away. Centrally located for all the North shore has to offer.

I definitely prefer the more secluded, wooded style of campground — this makes no attempt at being something it is not. It’s in the parking-lot-genre of campground. It’s next to highway 61. Centrally located amongst several must see state parks and beaches on the north shore. It was clean and orderly.

Very noisy with the roar of traffic on hwy 61 all night. ATVs coming and going at all hours. The city had the opportunity to build this site down by the lake and instead put it in a field next to the hwy. black beach is still a beautiful place to visit though

Great location between Duluth and the far North Shore. Close to  2 state parks and land mark Black Beach. Silver Bay has small grocery store and services. The park is a tree dessert with only young saplings...no shade. Facilities are clean but limited in number for number of camp sites. Maintained by the city or county so it is kept pretty clean. We were here 4 days...waiting for next reservation. Easy access from 61. No camp store that we saw. Level gravel sites with various hookup options. Very few are full hook up.

A rare find - clean, level, large RV sites with full hook ups on the North Shore not filled with residents in all the good sites. Strict rules such as no early check in and no late check out. Tents and rvs also allowed in a section next to the highway with electric only. NOTE: no onsite dump station - if you do not stay in a full hookups site you must drive into the town of Silver Bay to use the city dump facility, which may be too awful to use, depending on how many used it first. ATV trails connect to this campground, so it is very popular with them. No one starts before the 8am quiet time end, so we enjoyed watching the different types pass by. A new security code locked bathhouse is clean and nice. We stayed during the Memorial Day weekend, and were pleasantly surprised at the well behaved and polite people here. I recommend this campground as a nice place to explore the North Shore from.

Seems to be a fairly new camp ground. It was empty when we stopped in. They have two sets of sites here. One is very close to the highway and can get a bit noisy, but the other is a little closer to the beach. I would say anyone can camp here but it looks set up for bigger rigs. I would suggest booking the sites near the water and a little away from the highway for the noise sake. Not many trees and you don't have any privacy.

Very nice campground. We had full hookups and a very level site. Because it is quite new, the trees in the southeastern portion are very young as sparse. There was wifi, but we didn't connect. This location seems to be heavily trafficked by quads/UTVs.

This campground was just what we needed for out Nor' Shore adventure.  We ended up staying in a basic site without sewer hook up but for 2 nights that was not supposed to be a big deal.  The basic sites are right off Hwy 66, the full hook-up sites are further back, and seemed bigger in general.  Having lived in Duluth for a few years we had our regular things to do planned but getting snow (in early Oct!) caused us to change it up a bit.  One of those changes involved wandering down to Black Beach (right next to the campground) for the first time and it was awesome; cannot believe in all my trip up the shore I had never been.  That night the snow moved in and we had an great evening around the fire while the snow fell.  We also ended up doing the Alpine Slide at Lutsen and hanging out in Grand Marais the next day.  Before heading to Duluth for a day, we had to use the city RV sewer dump area that is just a couple miles into Silver Bay since we did not get a spot with full hook-ups.  The problem was when we got up there it was not working. And by "not working" I mean it was flooded with nasty-nasty "brown" water.  We didn't want to drive +200 miles with the tanks full so we went back to the campground and dumped in a full hook-up site that was empty.

PROS:  Great location for hitting all the North Shore hot spots.

Reasonable rates

Very clean

Full Hook-up sites are available, and are further off the highway and bigger

Right next to the very unique and cool Black Beach

Right in Silver Bay so option for groceries and restaurants

CONS: City RV sewer dump is not a bad alternative to no onsite dump, but only if it works!

The basic sites are right off Hwy 66 (which was not too bad all things considered), smaller and close together

This is a great no frills campground. Walking distance to Black Beach. The park is as new so it was very clean. Large sites, hookups were in good locations, fire pits. The campground is separated into two areas. If you are in the spaces closer to the lake you would probably want to drive to the showers.

We will definitely go back here again.

Only downside for us was it is very popular with atv and utv people, so it was a bit noisy at times during the day. At night is was super quite.
Still 5 stars.

It isn't very often that a new campground pops up on the North Shore!  So I was definitely excited to check it out- it opens on 6/25/2020.  It is within short walking distance to the black sand beaches of Silver Bay- which features my favorite picnic/wading spot on the north shore.

It is very much a municipal campground where all the spots are identical and do not offer much privacy.  The sites are long and flat with immature landscaping, so it will be a while before there is enough tree cover to provide shade and privacy.  The finishing touches like picnic tables are still to be placed. The sites are for either RVs or tent camping, but the general aesthetic makes me think that there will be more RVs and tent campers here.  There are basically two loops- once closer to Hwy 61 and one closer to the lake.  Each offers a small bathroom facility.