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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Trip Planning Forum Campsite availability guess- Lake Agnes - May 31 |
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01/16/2023 09:31PM
My apologies for asking this trivial question.
We are returning to the Moose Lake exit/entry from the east leg of LLC or Iron lake on Tuesday or Wednesday May 30 or 31 and looking for your wisdom on Agnes Lake site availability those nights.
Thank you.
We are returning to the Moose Lake exit/entry from the east leg of LLC or Iron lake on Tuesday or Wednesday May 30 or 31 and looking for your wisdom on Agnes Lake site availability those nights.
Thank you.
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01/17/2023 07:49AM
Tough to say. But I've had two close calls on Agnes , probably because we showed up late in the day. I think we got the last site on the lake both times. If you're wanting to stay on Agnes, I'd get to the lake early in the day. Agnes to is fairly large lake and it's no fun paddling around the entire lake looking for a site.
01/17/2023 04:55PM
Paddled through here about the same time 2 years ago when going from Oyster to LLC on the Tues after Memorial Day, then back through on that following Friday to exit. Best I recall a lot of the sites along the Western shore were available except one or two. But a lot of these are low rated sites, so fit may vary. Most popular were the high-star ones to the North of the lake, but once you turn that corner for the channel up to LLC there was decent vacancy. Ramshead may be an alternative, and I've heard good things about the Northerns.
On our exit, and based on where we were passing people on the Moose River portion I would imagine most entry day paddlers layup on Agnes or Nina Moose. Later starts, difficult paddling on the river depending on water levels and wind. For context we were passing a majority of people entering while paddling the Moose River, and we departed from a site on LLC near Warrior Hill early that morning. Sounds like you may be departing from a similar area, so worth noting that you can make it to the EP in a straight shot. We left a little earlier to account for a mild head wind that kicked up by the time we got onto Nina Moose and made our 1p shuttle pickup. That includes exit/entry traffic on the Moose River and some waiting at portages. But it was a rough one on a hot day trying to make that pickup time.
Bring a binocular or monocular to scan the shores of Agnes for occupied sites.
On our exit, and based on where we were passing people on the Moose River portion I would imagine most entry day paddlers layup on Agnes or Nina Moose. Later starts, difficult paddling on the river depending on water levels and wind. For context we were passing a majority of people entering while paddling the Moose River, and we departed from a site on LLC near Warrior Hill early that morning. Sounds like you may be departing from a similar area, so worth noting that you can make it to the EP in a straight shot. We left a little earlier to account for a mild head wind that kicked up by the time we got onto Nina Moose and made our 1p shuttle pickup. That includes exit/entry traffic on the Moose River and some waiting at portages. But it was a rough one on a hot day trying to make that pickup time.
Bring a binocular or monocular to scan the shores of Agnes for occupied sites.
01/17/2023 07:21PM
Honestly it's all a crap shoot regardless... I had a day last year on a busy lake where on Thursday everything was filled except for one site we had to back track to. The next day, a Friday 3 very popular sites were all open in the mid afternoon.
01/24/2023 01:53PM
Only here to validate what others have already said. Agnes is busy, however you're coming through at what might be an ok time, some folks will have cleared out.
If I got to Agnes and it was full, i'd just return to LLC and snag a site there. You can paddle out from LLC pretty easily. I've always figured at a steady relaxed pace Moose River North to Nina Moose (2 hours) to agnes (4 hours) to Tiger Bay LLC area (6 hours).
If I got to Agnes and it was full, i'd just return to LLC and snag a site there. You can paddle out from LLC pretty easily. I've always figured at a steady relaxed pace Moose River North to Nina Moose (2 hours) to agnes (4 hours) to Tiger Bay LLC area (6 hours).
"Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me, can't get fooled again" - W
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