Cloquet-Duluth KOA, near Cloquet, Minnesota, is a family-friendly campground that offers a mix of outdoor fun and convenient amenities. With a variety of accommodation options, including tent sites, RV spots, and cabins, it caters to different camping styles while providing essential comforts like electric hookups and drinking water.

The campground features a pool area that’s popular with families, along with well-maintained bathrooms and showers that visitors appreciate. Campers have noted the friendly staff, who are always ready to help with local tips and information about nearby attractions, making your stay even more enjoyable. One visitor mentioned, “Staff here very helpful. Provided good information for our day trip to Lake Superior and downtown Duluth.”

For those eager to explore, you’re just a stone's throw from Jay Cooke State Park, where you can hike scenic trails and enjoy stunning river views. The Gitchi Gami State Trail is also nearby, perfect for biking or walking along the beautiful North Shore. Plus, with Duluth just a short drive away, you can easily dive into local dining and attractions.

While some campers have pointed out that the sites can be a bit close together, the vibrant atmosphere filled with kids playing and dogs running around adds to the campground's charm. Whether you’re here for a weekend adventure or a longer stay, Cloquet-Duluth KOA has plenty to offer for a memorable camping experience.

Cloquet-Duluth KOA

Join the fun near Carlton. With tons of outdoor activities and scenic camping, this is an excellent vacation spot for all kinds of travelers. Discover secluded campsites where you can reconnect with nature. Or maybe you like to bring your family and friends along. Either way, there are Carlton campgrounds just for you. Find the best campgrounds near Carlton, MN. Read helpful reviews and tips to find the perfect camping option for you and your crew.

Carlton

The Best Camping Near Carlton, Minnesota

Came in august for Thomas the train in Duluth. This campground is great. Tons of trees for shade. Everything you Need to enjoy a weekend away. Pool, hot tub, WiFi, showers, arcade, laundry, c store, and lots more. We will be back!!

Our choice for the area!!!

Sites are cramped, leaving no illusion of privacy. Bathrooms were cleaned every couple of hours, but highly trafficked thus quickly undoing the cleaning.  Site was dirty - previous campers had left lots of micro trash near the fire pit and picnic table which killed the ambience. 

As KOAs go, ok.

This is your standard KOA with RVs and tents on top of each other. If you are just looking for a place to stay for the night, this campground will work great. If you're looking for peace and quiet over a weekend, look elsewhere

Standard KOA

It has all of the amenities, including a fenced in dog area, but the RV sites are close with no privacy. The cabins and tent area looked better. It was fine in a pinch but not my idea of camping.

Okay

We have camped here multiple times in a tent and also in our RV. Grounds have a nice mix of RV spots out in the open as well as some RV and tent spots back in the trees with water and electric only sites. Full hookup sites are only out in the in the open spaces.

Sites are mostly level and are some are a bit tight and close to your neighbors. They have recently added some additional RV spots and some other upgrades as well. Staff is friendly and bathrooms, store, activity room, pool are all seemed to be well maintained.

Make reservations early in the session because things fill up quickly. Great family campground with a lot of young kids running around, riding bikes, and playing and dogs in most campsites. Pool is also available but we haven’t used.

Easy access to Jay Cook State Park. Jay Cook has a lot to offer; a suspended cable walking bridge, great moderate hikes, waterfalls, climbing on rocks, and amazing river views. Great place to stop in for a couple hours or spend the whole day hiking.

Not to far from Duluth and other amazing North Shore locations. 

Dump station is conveniently located on your way out of the grounds but can get backed up at the end of a busy weekend and can make it difficult to exit the campground.

Like so many RV / campgrounds this one is also located near to railroad tracks that has several trains that come through day and night.

A nice place for the family to camp

We are KOA members (who stay at a lot of KOAs) - our 1st visit at this Cloquet KOA was Sept 2020:

The staff were friendly.  One staff drove a cart right to our campsite and helped us determine the best way to back in our RV for the most privacy.  We needed a couple of items for our RV and the store had everything we needed including a hose adapter, ketchup, buns, dog treats &amp; s’mores fixings.  The camp is close to Duluth but still far enough away to get you completely out of the city and, while exploring, we came across Jay Cook State Park (only about 15 min away) which is beautiful!!  The camp was relatively quiet.  We were about 20 feet from another campsite on one side and 50 feet on the other.  There are a lot of trees and wooded areas so our site felt semi-private.  Our Pomeranian, who loves to camp, loved the woods!!  Across from us were two camping cabins filled with 20 year olds celebrating a 21st birthday but the staff drove through often and we never heard noise.  This KOA offers full hookups in some parts of the campground but our site was only water/electric so they offered a complimentary pump-out with a mobile truck during our stay.  We will stay here again!

Nice campground & nice staff

Nice campground...a little rural but close to town. Helpful staff, decent size sites and hookups. Pool area was nice but busy on our stay. Great family camping. Kwik Trip down the road has everything you forgot to bring but there's a full grocery just a few miles from the campground...small but well stocked.  Easy on easy off from I35 and close enough to Duluth to make a day trip. Would stop here again!

Great location

Staff here very helpful. Provided good information for our day trip to Lake Superior and downtown Duluth. Also info on other things to see in the area. We would visit again if in the area.

Great Stay

I fully recognize that my lack of enthusiasm for this campground may be due to circumstances on the particular weekend we were there. Our site was directly across from the playground and the kids playing at the playground were all pre-teens who screamed non-stop. Our neighbor also had a dog on a line that was long enough to come into our campsite. The dog was perfectly friendly, but he did his business right in the middle of our site and until we pointed it out to the dog's owner, it didn't get cleaned up. The sites were also very small and very close together. We won't be returning to this campground. 

  

We did, however, love the area. We rode the Gitchi Gami trail up along the north shore of Lake Superior, hiked around in Jay Cooke State Park and explored Duluth a bit. We liked the Streetcare Cafe in Carlton (great food), The Cedar Coffee Co and Castle Danger Brewery.

Photos of Cloquet-Duluth KOA

Real photos from real campers