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Camp Palustria

Hosted by Blake · Rice Lake, Minnesota

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PRIMITIVE - HIKE IN CAMPSITE Wilderness Experience Minutes from Duluth About the campsite: THIS PROPERTY IS RUGGED WITH MINIMAL DEVELOPMENT BEYOND HIKING TRAIL AND CAMP AMENITIES. Camp Palustria is on the edge of a beautiful marsh within 75 feet of a trout stream. It is about 1000ft off of the Superior Hiking Trail. The campsite is primitive which includes fire pit with grill, table, and composting outhouse. The site is about a 600ft hike from the road where you'll park. The first 400ft of the trail is a swamp with a simple elevated boardwalk through most of it. 95% of the time is it passable with hiking boats or street shoes, but there might be some muddy spots. Dispersed winter camping is also available. This campsite was featured on NPR Marketplace Campsite is closed during hunting season. About the property: Trembling Gardens is my 10 acre swamp camp paradise in the rural suburb of Rice Lake. The property is about 20 minutes away from downtown Duluth and Canal Park and has easy access to the North Shore.PRIMITIVE - HIKE IN CAMPSITE Weekends: $25 Weekdays: $15 About the campsite: A backwoods experience minutes from Duluth and just off of the Superior Hiking Trail, Camp Palustria sits on the edge of a beautiful marsh leading to a small trout stream. The campsite is primitive, which includes fire pit with grill, table, chairs, and composting outhouse. Parking is on the road, and you will need to hike about 600ft to get to the campsite. The first 400ft of the trail is a swamp with a simple elevated boardwalk through most of it. It is usually passable with hiking boats or street shoes, but there might be some muddy spots. Dispersed winter camping is also available. New for 2023: Wider shoulder pull off for safer parking. This campsite was featured on NPR Marketplace. Campsite is closed during hunting season. About the property: Trembling Gardens is my 10 acre swamp camp paradise in the rural suburb of Rice Lake. I am currently developing the land as a personal off-grid vacation home with a tent cabin under construction. The property is less than 20 minutes away from downtown Duluth and Canal Park. “Oh the swamp is a mystical place all right. It's sacred. You think you're any different from me or your friends or this tree? If you listen hard enough, you can hear every living thing breathing together. You can feel everything growing. We're all living together, even if most folks don't act like it. We all have the same roots and we are all branches of the same tree. In the swamp, we see visions of people we've lost, people we loved, folks we think are gone. But the swamp tells us they're not. We're still connected to them. Time is an illusion and so is death.” -Avatar, The Last Airbender, Book Two: Earth, Chapter 4: The Swamp

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PRIMITIVE - HIKE IN CAMPSITE Weekends: $25 Weekdays: $15 About the campsite: A backwoods experience minutes from Duluth and just off of the Superior Hiking Trail, Camp Palustria sits on the edge of a beautiful marsh leading to a small trout stream. The campsite is primitive, which includes fire pit with grill, table, chairs, and composting outhouse. Parking is on the road, and you will need to hike about 600ft to get to the campsite. The first 400ft of the trail is a swamp with a simple elevated boardwalk through most of it. It is usually passable with hiking boats or street shoes, but there might be some muddy spots. Dispersed winter camping is also available. New for 2023: Wider shoulder pull off for safer parking. This campsite was featured on NPR Marketplace. Campsite is closed during hunting season. About the property: Trembling Gardens is my 10 acre swamp camp paradise in the rural suburb of Rice Lake. I am currently developing the land as a personal off-grid vacation home with a tent cabin under construction. The property is less than 20 minutes away from downtown Duluth and Canal Park. “Oh the swamp is a mystical place all right. It's sacred. You think you're any different from me or your friends or this tree? If you listen hard enough, you can hear every living thing breathing together. You can feel everything growing. We're all living together, even if most folks don't act like it. We all have the same roots and we are all branches of the same tree. In the swamp, we see visions of people we've lost, people we loved, folks we think are gone. But the swamp tells us they're not. We're still connected to them. Time is an illusion and so is death.” -Avatar, The Last Airbender, Book Two: Earth, Chapter 4: The Swamp

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