Bald Rock Camp

Bald Rock Camp is a Land Back project on the mainland of Gojijiiwi-zaaga’igan (Rainy Lake). It is a 16-acre lakefront parcel with several cabins and a main lodge dating back to the early 1900s. Early on, it was the launching point and records storage for Ernest Oberholtzer, a conservationist who helped preserve the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. It then had a brief run as a family resort, and afterwards was held privately by the Erickson family for many years.

In 2022, Bald Rock Camp went up for public sale for the first time since colonization, and came back into Indigenous hands. After a few years of hard, dedicated work rewiring, reflooring, reroofing, plumbing, planting, and forest management, Bald Rock Camp has come back to life. Today, the space hosts fellowship cohorts of tomorrow’s leaders in sustainability and culturally-based land protection, alongside a slow foods program that feeds hundreds of families across northern Minnesota annually.