The open area was once the location of the mess hall which burned down in the 1930s. Benjamin and Carls Lakes are visible from the barracks. An open air picnic shelter is located at the camp. The shelter was built by the CCC and moved from the Cut Foot Sioux area to Camp Rabideau in 1986. A one mile trail runs through Camp Rabideau.
Interpretive displays highlight the buildings and history of the area.
Camp Rabideau's first enrollees, company 3749 from Bennett Springs, Missouri, built and occupied the camp from August 1935 to January 4, 1936. The crew was relocated in California and Minnesota company 708 was moved from Bena to Camp Rabideau by truck in 45 degrees below zero weather. Company 708 remained at Rabideau until the end of the program in 1941. Work projects ranged from building the Blackduck Ranger Station and two fire towers to doing deer census and searching for lost persons during the berry picking and deer hunting seasons. The original Government Land Survey in 1882 described the land of the Lost Forty as part of Coddington Lake.