Frontier And Bass Lake

Next is a sort of mini-camp. It’s called Camp Frontier. In the same vein as Hiawatha beach, it was a lone-troop camp that had no permanent staff, no regular meal service unless a troop planned for it. Essentially, it was a campsite on the Northshore of lake wolverine. To get to it, there was a turnoff on Owasippe road and was located on the thick peninsula at the mouth of the dam channel. Its opening date is hard to determine. It was probably open in the late 40s or early 50s east of Old Blackhawk, as a few maps from that time place it there. By the 1970s it was definitely located on Lake Wolverine. What probably happened is it was opened around the time that Old Blackhawk was reopened as a lone troop camp to fulfill the role that Camp Pioneer fulfilled. In the 1950s when Owasippe purchased the land around Cleveland Creek from Club Wolverine (the previous owners of the land), they relocated the camp to the shores of Lake Wolverine. I can’t confirm this, but based on what I know this is my best guess as to how it came to be. Edward Radwanski, or “Mr. Ed '' as he is called, camped there for a few years in the late 1970s. He described how Frontier had two tent cabins. One was just an open room. The other had a propane stove and powered fridge, and was set up for cooking. All of this would have been somewhat standard for a lone troop camp at the time. It’s closing date is uncertain, it’s likely it was closed sometime in the 1980s. A trail map from 1983 (though it’s may be from a later date) doesn’t show it, and it only shows up on later maps as “Old Frontier'', so it’s likely it closed sometime around then. However, it appeared to reopen again in the 1980s, this time at a site just west of the old Blackhawk dining hall. It operated here for several years, but it has since closed. 

Another lone troop camp. A campsite on the tiny Bass lake, it was opened sometime around the early 1950s, likely to fill the same lone-troop camp niche. It was opened well into the 1970s, but has since closed. I’m unsure when it closed, there isn’t a way to rent or camp there today. It probably closed sometime in the 1980s, but again, that’s just my best guess.