In the planning stages for this years BWCA trip and one of the items needing crossed off is where to grab a quick shower for the drive back to Iowa. Exiting Isabella Lake (entry 35) and the plan is to take Highway 1 out. Anything relatively close to my exit lake that offers showers? Something I would like to avoid is back tracking all the way to Ely.

Edit: looked a map again and realized I was wrong.

Outdoorsfan69: "In the planning stages for this years BWCA trip and one of the items needing crossed off is where to grab a quick shower for the drive back to Iowa. Exiting Isabella Lake (entry 35) and the plan is to take Highway 1 out. Anything relatively close to my exit lake that offers showers? Something I would like to avoid is back tracking all the way to Ely."

Try Wildhurst campground right on Hwy 1 few miles north of Finland

Try Burlington bay campground in two harbors mn. I think you can shower there. Have a great trip! Marc

It won't help you, but for others, when we do gunflint trips, we shower in the RV park on lake superior right in Grand Marais. They have a couple different shower buildings. We like the one by the ball field, a little southeast of the main office. I think they charge $4 a person.

This RV park has showers, I'd check with them. They should be very near silver bay.

https://www.blackbeachcampground.com/campground

Facilities

Campground is open May 15 - October 15

(Closing date may be extended due to favorable weather.)



Office Hours: Vary depending on occupancy

Phone Number: 218-226-4214

analyzer: "It won't help you, but for others, when we do gunflint trips, we shower in the RV park on lake superior right in Grand Marais. They have a couple different shower buildings. We like the one by the ball field, a little southeast of the main office. I think they charge $4 a person. "

Our crew does the same when we're coming out from a Gunflint trip. Nice and clean.

Laketrout69: "Try Burlington bay campground in two harbors mn. I think you can shower there. Have a great trip! Marc"

No, you can’t. I checked on this the last time this came up. The facilities are exclusively for registered campers.

Lots of options:

1) Roll the windows down and embrace the stink
2) Depending on what time of year it is, I'd just find a boat launch at a lake on your way and jump in and rinse off. Put on some clean clothes and you're good to go
3) If you're intent on a real hot shower, and taking Hwy 1 to 61 and heading back towards Iowa, stop at 1 of the 3 state parks on the way (Tett, Split Rock and Gooseberry). Pay for a day pass ($7/car) and go use the showers in the campground

Yup I like to be clean and appropriate when I leave for home. I take a paper bag with clean shorts, shirt and so on to change into for the ride home and i leave it in the car. I just jump in for a swim at my exit point.
Tom