COE Leech Lake Reservoir Leech Lake Recreation Area

Nice clean campground and facilities. A lot of campers with boats for fishing Leech Lake. Verizon 2 bars. Nice clean dump station with drinking water available.

Our RV GPS and Google Maps took us right to the gate of this campground(CG) and it was easy to find. We arrived with no issues and went straight to back-in site 12 with FHUs. There is not a check-in office/gate shack. We stayed here two years ago and got online to reserve this great site as soon as the reservation window opened(6 months prior). As stated on the info board, a camp host came by as we were setting up, and checked us in. There is a handful(5) of reservable FHU sites(50/30/20 AMP) as camp hosts are in the others. There are also many great 50/30 AMP electric-only sites in this CG. We also noticed that there were not many water spigots in the CG and so suggest getting your potable water at the dump station at the back of the CG upon arrival. The shower houses/restrooms were open and very clean. There is a laundry room in the shower house building with 2 washers and 2 dryers but only 1 dryer was working. There was a sign limiting the days of use during our September 2-week stay due to only having 1 dryer, but we noticed someone was doing their laundry on a'closed' day. We got 2 bars on both Verizon and T-Mobile. The number of mature trees in this CG would make satellite iffy. This CG is very popular with fishermen with their boats as there is a public boat launch adjacent to the CG. Our site bumped up to the fence that separates the CG from the boat launch and parking area so we did get some noise. In addition, the CG has its own boat launch and there is shore mooring for your boat. There’s a mile-and-a-half channel that runs from the boat launch to the main lake where the big-engined fishing boats transit back and forth. You cannot swim, fish, or hang out between channel buoys plus there’s a dam so this COE is not a good area for kayaking. This COE is one of the most modern and well-kept CGs we’ve stayed in. There’s a COE associated marina near the public boat ramp where you can rent boats plus purchase bait and firewood. There are short trails within the park plus plenty of areas to walk the dogs. The nearest amenities are in Longville about 20 minutes away. We enjoyed our 2-week stay.

I had to call the reservation.gov phone line because the website would not allow me to reserve a site for that night, even though it was available. The bathrooms are good, but they are far away from the tent site. People mostly drive up to the good bathroom. Lots of mosquitos no matter what time of day. Lots of shade, but the 4 strictly tent sites are very close together and right next to a road, separated by trees.