Although you can take day trips into the wilderness, the best way to experience the Boundary Waters is by camping overnight. The BWCA has nearly 2,000 designated campsites, with fire grates and box latrines. In Quetico Park, there are no improvements on the campsites. You may camp anywhere suitable. On both sides of the border, you'll camp at individual, separate sites, not shared with anyone else.
Some lakes have several campsites, others have only one.
Perhaps nothing better represents the wilderness than the eerie wail of a loon echoing off the shores of a dead calm lake at night. It's a mournful cry that every visitor should hear during a summer visit to Canoe Country. Or maybe the sight of a soaring, bald eagle high above your path is even more thrilling. Or a majestic bull moose along the shore of a tranquil creek. Or the chilling howls of a pack of timber wolves across a darkened lake from your campsite.