Bagley Rapids Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 17 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 3130 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
If you enjoy listening to the soothing sound of flowing water, you will appreciate this campground. About one-third of the 30 campsites are located adjacent to the Oconto River. Weekends bring the most campers, with only moderate use occurring during the week. So come and relax among the pines and enjoy the sound and beauty of Bagley Rapids. Keep reading
Recreation
Trout fishing, berry picking, rafting, canoeing, swimming, and sightseeing can all be done in or near this campground.
Facilities
The campground has 30 sites along with accessible vault toilets, drinking water, and garbage service.
Natural Features
Campground is located among towering pines adjacent to the flowing rapids of the Oconto River. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (715) 276-6333.
Nearby Attractions
Nearby is the Mountain Fire Lookout Tower, a popular local tourist destination. This is one of the last fire towers standing on its original location in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. It was built in 1935 and was one of a series of 20 towers built in the Forest during the 1930s. If you’re brave enough, you can climb the tower and enjoy a panoramic view of the surrounding countryside. Also nearby is Cathedral Pines, an area that survived Wisconsin’s logging era where the majestic pines and hemlocks have been preserved in their natural state.
What the agency tells you
Use is restricted to hardened campsite area.
Generator use is limited to the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 pm. and only while users are present at the campsite. Unreasonably loud generators which may bother others cannot be used at any time.
Privately owned ATV's, UTV's, and Golf Carts are not allowed to be operated within the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Single occupancy sites are allowed up to 8 persons and one wheeled camping unit, e.g. camper or RV, as well as three additional vehicles or trailers, so long as they are not wheeled camping units.
Firewood must be purchased or collected from no greater than 25 miles of a National Forest destination or collected directly from National Forest land. Firewood from any distance that has been certified by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is allowed.
There are no electric hook-ups at this facility.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 31
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…has 30 sites along with accessible vault toilets, drinking water, and garbage service. Natural…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…along with accessible vault toilets, drinking water, and garbage service. Natural Features Campground…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Berry Picking
- Birding
- Fishing
- Night sky · 67th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 24 km away
- Near peak
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 30 of the 31 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 sites
All 31 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 31 of the 31 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Bagley | 01 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 02 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 03 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 04 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 05 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 06 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 07 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 08 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 09 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 10 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 11 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 13 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 14 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 15 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 16 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 17 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 18 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 19 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 20 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 21 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 22 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 23 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 24 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 25 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 26 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 27 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 28 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $15 |
| Bagley | 29 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | 30 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Bagley | S&P Single | type not stated | $15 |
25 of 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Boulder LakeNicolet National Forest · 8.6 miBoot Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 12 mi
Boot Lake CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 12 mi
Ada Lake CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 20 miAda Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 20 mi
Richardson Lake CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 23 miFrom Mountain, drive south 2.2 miles on Highway 32 to Bagley Rapids Road (FR 2111). Turn right (west) on Bagley Rapids Road and drive 0.6 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mountain, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 5°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bagley Rapids Campground is in Wisconsin’s 8th congressional district. Its representative, Tony Wied (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →