Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground

During a fall 2024 stay at the Agawa Bay Campground in Lake Superior Provincial Park, we ran into a problem: A boil water advisory for all the water sources in the campground.

Augh.

Not wanting to deal with the fallout from filling a tank with needs-to-be-boiled water, we considered hitting up the Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground on the way out of the campground.

Of course, that’s 56 km up the Trans Canada Highway - closer to the town of Wawa, than it is to Agawa Bay.

So, we decided to do a scouting mission, and made a whole day of it - hiking at Sand River Falls on the way, stopping by Old Woman Bay to stretch our legs (well, Porter ended up doing the Nokomis Hiking Trail...), and even went up to Wawa to check out Scenic High Falls.

Not really the easy day of rest we’d had planned, but hey - we had fun!

Anyway, efficiency is my THING, so we also scoped out the campground with an eye to future camping trips. It’s always fun to pick out a wish list of campsites to aim for, IMHO,

Also, it’s always good to know if a campground is just NOT suitable for your needs.

That ended up to not be the case for us - we’d just been staying at Agawa Bay out of convenience, to keep the drive in a bit shorter than it would be for staying at Rabbit Blanket campground.

After having had a good look at the campground, we had our first time actually camping there in June 2025.

Anyway, it’s a tiny campground, located on an interior lake. There’s not a ton going on there, but it seems really peaceful.

Also? Some of the campsites are SUPER cute - more on that in a minute.

Anyway, let us tell you all about our observations...

The Basics:

Campground Name: Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground - Lake Superior Provincial Park
Address: PO Box 267 Wawa, ON P0S 1K0
Website: https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/lakesuperior
Price Ontario Provincial Parks uses a pricing matrix across all their parks. See 2025 Camping Fees for more details.
Reservations: Ontario Parks Reservations
Park Classification: Natural Environment
Season:: May 16, 2025 to October 26, 2025

Logistics

Some information to help you plan your trip to Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground:

Registration and Check In

The check in process has been different every time we’ve been to Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground.

Our first visit, the gatehouse was closed... and had signage directing visitors to the Agawa Bay Campground to sign in. You know. ~45 minutes away!

Our second visit - in 2025 - allowed us to check in online the morning of our arrival... but then directed us to find a member of park staff to obtain a paper permit.

For our 2026 visit, we checked in online again... and this time, we were directed to go directly to our campsite. Guess they’ve gone with fully paperless permits now!

Anyway, for the times we had to check in - in-person - the service was fast and friendly, as always.

They had printed off a vehicle permit for our driving car, that’s it. I guess that makes sense though - so many parking lots throughout the park with NO cell reception, a paper permit is probably the only way they can verify such things.

Maps and Signage

In terms of the printed map, the Rabbit Blanket map is the same as the Agawa Bay one - 2 double sided, black and white photocopied sheets - usually. (Sometimes they’ll give you a full colour version).

The two campgrounds share one side of a paper:

A park overview map takes up another full sheet, and the remaining two sides are dedicated to trail information and park offenses/fines.

If you prefer maps to be in colour, there’s a PDF online - Rabbit Blanket Campground Map.

Waste & Water Services

The Trailer Sanitation Station is kind of... awkward.

It’s set up to be accessed on the way out, but backwards - services on the passenger side. If you need it on the way in, you have to either go in the wrong way for driver's side service, or do a U turn around the gatehouse.

Assuming you’re coming at it from the direction of the campground, it’s just a pull-off section on the side of the campground road, rather than a separate loop.

The two platforms - a dump platform, then the fill station - are just on the side of the road - so on the passenger side of your vehicle.

During our 2025 visit, we asked the staff member who checked us in about this. They said they weren’t sure why they did it that way, but that yeah, we should just drive in the wrong way.

Anyway, the garbage / recycling area is right near the first platform.

Connectivity

We had decent internet through the whole campground, during our first visit. Not amazing, not super fast - we had better reception in Agawa - but certainly enough to check the weather forecast, etc.

On our more recent visit - June 2026 - we had pretty much no connection at all, anywhere in the campground. We had 4 bars, mind you - just no connection.

This is on Rogers Wireless - your mileage may vary with other carriers.

Accessibility

The comfort station is marked as being barrier-free, and actually does have a wheelchair accessible path up to it. (It’s shocking how often that is NOT the case!).

There’s a decent sized, single-stall barrier free shower, and a single wheelchair accessible toilet stall in the multi-stall washrooms.

A year or so ago, the barrier-free shower was... not great.

The shower head and controls were at an accessible level (also a shockingly rare thing for “barrier-free” shower stalls!) ... but the hooks and shelves were placed VERY high - not barrier free.

Also, the stall itself was in pretty gross looking condition, though.

Sometime in the past year or so, they overhauled the barrier-freeshower, and it’s much nicer! The photo below has a before and after.

There’s also a single barrier-free campsite at Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground. It’s #20, and it’s close to the comfort station.

It’s large, but the ground is really uneven.

There are two picnic tables - one is the regular style, and the other is the wheelchair accessible style - as well as a vaulted fire pit.

Rather than being directly across from the comfort station, it has a cute, private trail through the woods to get there. At the time of our visit, the picnic tables and fire pit were mostly blocking the trail for some reason.

Beyond the comfort station and campsite, Rabbit Blanket Lake, it’s not a super accessible campground.

It has rough roads, no real wheelchair access to the beach (The beach isn’t available anymore), the trails to the vault toilets are narrow, and none of those are barrier-free (so far as we could see), anyway.

Pets

Dogs specifically weren’t allowed on the Rabbit Blanket Lake beach - when it was still a thing - but beyond that, we didn’t see any information about them at all.

I’m assuming it’s the same as almost every other Ontario Provincial Park campground - keep them leashed at all times, don’t let them harass other people or animals, and pick up after them.

Beyond that, there IS a dog beach at Old Woman Bay, nearby.

When you pass the entrance loop, turn right and go to the end of that parking area / road. You’ll see signage at the beach that points to the right for the dog area.

Aside from that, dogs aren’t allowed in the swimming areas or on the Agawa Pictograph trail. (They’re allowed on all of the other trails, though!)

Beyond that, all of the Ontario Parks standard rules apply - They’re supposed to leashed at all times, and never left unattended. Don’t let them harass other people or animals, and pick up after them.

Parking

There is not a lot of extra parking at Rabbit Blanket Lake campground - some parking at the boat launch and the comfort station, and that’s about it.

There aren’t any marked overflow parking spots for campers, there aren’t even parking areas for the two trail access points in the campground.

Miscellaneous

While there’s not a lot of overhead light pollution at Rabbit Blanket Lake, it is a LOT closer to Wawa than the Agawa Bay campground.

There’s also no great view to the north there, so it’s not really a good spot for Aurora Borealis hunting.

That said, it’ll work fine for star gazing, if you get out near the boat launch or beach area, out from the forest cover of the campground.

Campground Amenities & Info

Here’s some basic information on the amenities at Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground:

Creature Comforts

There is a single comfort station - near the middle of the campground - with flush toilets, laundry facilities, and showers.

Specifically, two multi-stalled washrooms, each with a single barrier-free toilet stall and a sharps disposal container.

There are two regular showers, as well as a single wheelchair accessible shower stall, plus a small laundry room. The laundry room has a single washer and a single dryer, with both machines priced at $2 / load.

Beyond the comfort station, there are several vault toilets throughout both campground loops. Each of these is set back from the campground road, on little trails.

Some branches of the trails go between the roads and the outhouses, and others go from the vault toilet to the surrounding campsites.

Be careful where you go - especially in the dark - because I could see it being fairly easy to end up in someone else’s campsite.

Park Store & Visitor Centre

When the campground office is open, you can buy a few small items there - stickers, patches, that kind of thing.

A few minutes down the highway, though, the Red Rock Lake Park Office has a small park store in there. There was a small selection of souvenirs - including clothing items - a few snack foods, cold drinks, maps, etc.

The staff member we met was super friendly, nice, and very knowledgeable about the area - we enjoyed visiting!

Finally, if you’re looking for a wider selection of gift items, souvenirs, and supplies, you’re going to want to go to the make Lake Superior Provincial Parkstore.

See my post on the Agawa Bay Campground for information on the Lake Superior Provincial Park visitor center - that’s where it’s located!

Day Use Area

The beach that used to serve as the day use area at Rabbit Blanket Lake is now part of the cabin rental site - so not available to other campers.

Even before that happened, though, campers were FAR better off going to Old Woman Bay if they’re looking for a picnic spot, or to take a swim.

By far the biggest and most popular day use area in the park, Old Woman Bay is located just a few minutes north of Rabbit Blanket Lake campground.

There are a few picnic tables as soon as you pull off the highway, but skip those - there are MUCH nicer picnic spots as you get to the beach.

There are picnic tables all up the beach, as well as little “nooks” above the beach, with varying degrees of privacy. Some look like mini campsites, and many have great views of the beach and surrounding area.

For full details - and more photos - see our Old Woman Bay post.

Rentals

During the main camping season, you can rent canoes at the Rabbit Blanket Lake gatehouses, as well as at the Park Office for Mijinemungshing Lake.
Mijin is the largest lake in the park, so that’s convenient!

You can also rent out of Agawa Bay, but that’s clear on the other side of the park.

Campsite Details

The Rabbit Blanket Campground is a small campground - about 60 sites - each with a picnic table and a fire pit.

About half of the campsites have electrical service - these are all located on the first loop of the campground, closest to the gate.

There are some REALLY cute campsites in the second, non-electrical campsite loop, though, especially on the last stretch of it, approaching the comfort station area.

Vaulted platforms of land, landscaped steps up to the camping area, etc. Almost enough to make me want to tent camp.

Almost. LOL!

For our June 2025 stay, we stayed at R6.

It was nice enough, but nothing to really write home about. (We’re definitely spoiled by our time spent up north, though!)

The ground was relatively flat, it felt decently private enough, no complaints.

Roofed Accommodation

New in 2025: There’s a brand new, single room cabin at Rabbit Blanket Lake: Rabbit’s Burrow Cabin.

As mentioned previously, it’s located right on the beach, and bookings are open for it already. (Even though the park’s website doesn’t mention it on the camping page!)

The beach has been removed from the printed park map, and the road down to that area now has a sign saying it’s a “private residence”.

That said, they definitely took theor time updating that map - and a lot pf regulars don’t bother with park maps - so if you’re renting the cabin, you might want to expect some potentially awkward interactions

Anyway...

This little cabin includes a single/queen bunk bed, as well as a double sized futon couch. Also, there’s a camp cot is also available, by request.

There’s no kitchen area or washrooms, but there’s a table and benches, a mini fridge, a propane heater, and a gas BBQ, outside on the deck.

Oddly, the reservation page for cabin rental includes information that you usually see for a regular campsite. It’s listed as having 15 amp electrical service, no shade/full sun, grass for ground cover, and a slight pad slope.

Anyway, pets aren’t allowed, and there’s a 2 night minimum for booking.

Entertainment and Activity

Some information about the recreational opportunities in and around the Rabbit Blanket Campground:

Hiking

I covered info on all of the trails - and our reviews / photos of the hikes we’ve done - in my Agawa Bay Campground review.

Spoilers:

Agawa Rock Pictographs Trail is short but hardcore, and AMAZING.

Sand Lake / Pinguisibi Trail may just be my favourite hike of all time.

Nokomis Trail is rated as one of the top 5 hikes in Canada, and Porter *loved* it. It’s located nearby - across the highway from Old Woman Bay.

The very idea of Coastal Trail is absolutely incomprehensible to me. 65 km of hardcore trail - I bet it’s gorgeous, though.

Beyond those, a bit of campground specific info: There are two access points for the Peat Mountain Trail in the Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground... and neither one have any parking spots at the trailhead.

You may need to park at the comfort station and walk half the length of the campground.

Biking

There aren’t any designated biking trails in the campground, but you could probably bike on the campground roads. It’s definitely a quiet, low-traffic campground.

Swimming

I’d previously mentioned there was a small beach at the Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground. It’s rocky and kind of marshy - not really what I’d consider a swimming destination.

That beach is no longer considered public access, as they’ve recently built a rental cabin on it, and the whole little area down there is part of the rental campsite.

So, if you want to go swimming, you’re going to want to check out Old Woman Bay, just down the highway from Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground.

It’s about a 1 km beach (I have no idea where anyone is getting 3 km from!), and just gorgeous. There are several different sections of sand, from straight up gravel (out to the left), to coarse sand, to fine sand.

The water is crystal clear, and there’s really no comparison to the former campground beach.

Katherine Cove is another great option for swimming, but it’s significantly further away, much closer to the Agawa Bay Campground.

Birding, Wildlife, and Nature

So, a sign at the boat launch mentions Great Blue Heron, Osprey, Otter, Moose, and nesting waterfowl - including loons and ducks.

We saw some ducks during our first visit... that’s it.

Staying at the campground a year later, we had a bit more luck. Overall, we heard and/or saw:

American Crow, American Redstart, American Robin, Black-Throated Green Warbler, Cedar Waxwing, Chestnut-Sided Warbler, Common Raven, Magnolia Warbler, Pileated Woodpecker, Red-Eyed Vireo, White-Throated Sparrow.

We also saw a TON of butterflies, a few different kinds of dragonflies and damselflies, and wild flowers everywhere.

Also, in 2026, we saw a Black Bear on the side of the highway, not far from the entrance to the campground. Wish we could have stopped for a photo, but the conditions were far too dangerous!

Anyway, in terms of birding, we generally have much more luck up the road at Old Woman Bay.

During our stays at Rabbit Blanket Lake, we’re heard and/or seen the following at Old Woman Bay:

Alder Flycatcher, American Robin, American Pipit, American Redstart, Barn Swallow, Black-Throated Green Warbler, Cedar Waxwing, Chipping Sparrow, Downy Woodpecker, Golden-Crowned Kinglet, Hairy Woodpecker, Red-Breasted Nuthatch, Red-Eyed Vireo, White-Throated Sparrow, White-Winged Crossbill, Yellow-Rumped Warbler.

The Trapper’s Trail is also a great place for bird watching.

Boating & Fishing

Located on an inland lake, Rabbit Blanket Lake is one in a chain of lakes on at least one of the canoe routes in Lake Superior Provincial Park

A sign at the boat launch mentioned being 3 portages away from some of the best Brook Trout fishing in the park.

Surf Lake is 5km away by canoe, and the signage recommends allowing 5-6 hours to do so. It also warns of portages and landings with steep grades, slippery areas, and uneven terrain.

Beyond that, there are a ton of canoeing and kayaking opportunities throughout the park.

There’s a boat launch on Sinclair Cove, which is a GORGEOUS area.

Mijinemungshing Lake is the largest inland lake in the park, and a popular destination for canoeing, fishing, and backcountry camping.

Discovery Program

Each of the times we visited, it was in the shoulder season - and the Lake Superior Provincial Park Discovery Program seems to only run in July and August.

There weren’t any posters or old schedules remaining up on any of the notice boards, so I couldn’t tell you what was offered.

At the very least, I know they do some programming out of the Agawa Bay Visitor Centre, and have guides at the Pictorgraphs trail in the summer, but that’s about it.

Niantic Games

There are two Pokestops / Ingress Portals / etc at Rabbit Blanket Lake Campground: At the gatehouse and at the boat launch.

Both areas had decent cellular reception for us during our visits.

Final Thoughts

So, I’m 50/50 on this campground.

I love that it’s small and peaceful, and some of the campsites are SUPER cute. Also love that it’s so close to Old Woman Bay, which is a bit of trek from Agawa Lake Campground.

On the other hand, the really cute sites are non-electric, on a rough road, and don’t even accommodate our equipment... so that’s like half the draw right there.

The campground also doesn’t have the view of Lake Superior, or any kind of view for Northern Lights potential.

So... it’ll be hard to choose this one over Agawa, which we already love. Not to say we won’t - it may make logistical sense in the future - but that’s where we’re at.

If you’re a tent camper and don’t need that north facing view... you could definitely do worse!

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Lake Superior Provincial Park
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