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I had my reservation for this upcoming weekend cancelled for Burnt Island on Sand Point Lake, I thought it was interesting that there was someone camping there when I went by on Saturday. Also does anyone know if there is anything at the sites marking them as reserved? I have another site reserved for later this summer and was wondering if I will have to deal with "squatters" that aren't aware of the new policy. And yes the bugs were terrible anywhere out of the wind.

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Ranger, I do not believe there is any indication a site is reserved except the HSOforum, which doesn't help those who are unaware. I have a site reserved on the east end of rainy starting this Thursday and have the same concerns.

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The campsites that you can reserve this year do have a sign with it stating that it is a reserve site. I think the park system closed the site out of consideration to those who did reserve and are not aware of the high water. Also for safety reasons as these sites have docks under water.

We did still camp at a non-reserve site that the dock was under water. Just have to be careful!! I think I saw on one of the sites that had a sign that said it was closed, but not at the site we went to.

I think they should have an option to let the person who reserved the site decide if they still want it. Long as the site it-self was not underwater as the case with some of the sites. Then a person needs to be proactive in finding out what the conditions are.

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I learned from the rangers last week that all sites on Crane and Sand Point will be by reservation in 2015....who knows when this will happen.I want to make my reservations ASAP ...thanks

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All camping sites in the entire park are reservation only next year (fyi, there are no sites on Crane as it is not in VNP wink

Reservations can be made up to 6 months in advance on the recreation.gov HSOforum.

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xplorer, thanks we stayed on Sand Point and that is where the Rangers spoke to us...I appreciate the info about 6 months in advance thanks

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Actually, ALL sites will be by reservation only starting September 16 this year, although there is no fee until May 15.

Official details here:

http://www.nps.gov/voya/planyourvisit/reservation-camping.htm

I emailed VNP recently to inquire on when the reservation.gov site will begin accepting reservations for September 16 and got this reply:

"Reservations for all campsites after September 15th will be available starting September 16th. This is because recreation.gov will need to do a complete system reboot in order to incorporate all the remaining campsites. If you need to make a permit reservation that will overlap September 15-16, starting September 9th, 2014, you may contact Alex Braun at the Kabetogama Lake Visitor Center (218) 875-2111 or Tawnya Schoewe (218) 283-6650 to help you make this permit reservation."

So, who wants in on the pool on when the "complete system reboot" will actually be working? wink

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