Beaver Lake (Chequamegon-Nicolet NF, WI)
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 15 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Beaver Lake Campground is a small, secluded, family-friendly campground located on the shores of its namesake lake. The waterfront sites provide spectacular scenic views of the area and its location gives visitors access to several popular areas of the Chequamegon National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to the boating and fishing opportunities offered at the lake, a number of day hikes can be accessed from the campground. A short trail connects the campground to the North Country National Scenic Trail, which traverses through Chequamegon National Forest as it makes its way from New York to North Dakota. The surrounding area offers many miles of off-road vehicle, hiking and mountain biking trails, along with several lakes and rivers to wet a line or launch a boat. Springbrook, a Class 1 brook trout stream, is nearby, and is a popular spot for anglers.
Facilities
The campground offers less than a dozen single-family campsites for tent and RV camping. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Trash collection and recycling bins are also available.
Natural Features
Beaver Lake sits in northwestern Wisconsin, in a forest of maple, birch and red pine trees. The lake is a perfect spot to kayak, canoe, swim or enjoy a leisurely boat ride. A boat ramp is located about a half-mile from the campground.
Nearby Attractions
Morgan Falls, St. Peter's Dome and the Penokee overlook are all just a short drive from the campground.
What the agency tells you
First-come, first-served sites may be available
Click here for more information on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forests
Don't move firewood: To limit the spread of invasive tree-killing pests, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Some states have quarantines and may confiscate your firewood. Please help protect our forests from invasive species by obtaining your firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Trash collection…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Trash collection and recycling bins…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 6th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 12
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
10 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 10 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. 10 of the 10 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BEAVER LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 59 ft | 347 ftBeaver Lake | $15 |
| BEAVER LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 362 ftBeaver Lake | $15 | |
| BEAVER LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 183 ft | 293 ft | $15 |
| BEAVER LAKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 61 ft | 127 ftBeaver Lake | $15 |
| BEAVER LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 61 ft | 71 ftBeaver Lake | $15 |
| BEAVER LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 63 ft | 130 ftBeaver Lake | $15 |
| BEAVER LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 76 ft | 50 ftBeaver Lake | $15 |
| BEAVER LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 56 ftBeaver Lake | $15 |
| BEAVER LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 115 ft | 201 ftBeaver Lake | $15 | |
| BEAVER LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 59 ft | 289 ftBeaver Lake | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lake ThreeChequamegon National Forest · 1.5 mi
Mineral LakeChequamegon National Forest · 2.5 mi
East TwinChequamegon National Forest · 7.6 mi
Day LakeChequamegon National Forest · 8.7 miNamekagon Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 11 mi61324 Beaver Lake Rd. (FR 199)
From Mellen, Wisconsin, take County Highway GG west for about 8 miles. Turn right onto Forest Service Road 187/Mineral Lake Road and follow it about 3 miles to the intersection with Forest Service Road 198/Pine Stump Corner. Continue straight onto Forest Service Road 198 for about 2 miles, then turn right at the campground sign.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Marengo, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 1°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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Beaver Lake (Chequamegon-Nicolet NF, WI) is in Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district. Its representative, Tom Tiffany (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →