Beaver Lake Recreation Area
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 16 mi
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Season
- May 2 – October 31Open May 2 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
If you are looking for a campground to explore the North Country National Scenic Trail or a rustic fishing-getaway with a family atmosphere, try the Beaver Lake Recreation Area 15 miles west of Mellen, Wis. This campground is located on a 35-acre trout, panfish and largemouth bass. There are 10 campsites. Campsites include a parking spur, fire ring, picnic table, and tent pad. Drinking water and vault toilets are available. The area includes a boat launch located one-half mile from the campground. Keep reading
A spur trail connects the campground to the North Country National Scenic Trail, one of the most popular trail systems in the area, that includes hiking and snowshoeing during the winter months. There is no day use or long term parking for visitors entering the North Country National Scenic Trail within the campground. The Beaver Lake Recreation Area is near popular local site-seeing spots St. Peter's Dome and Morgan Falls. It's a short hike or drive from the Marengo Semi-primitive Non-motorized area. In addition, there are mountain bike opportunities on the CAMBA trail system and Rock Lake National Recreation Trail. So, if you like to camp, boat, fish, and hike, then the Beaver Lake recreation area is the place for you, located just 15 minutes northwest of Mellen. Don't forget your canine friends. Beaver Lake is one of our dog friendly Recreation Areas. Dogs must be well behaved and leashed at all times.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table, and tent pad. Drinking water and vault toilets are available. The area includes a boat launch…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…fire ring, picnic table, and tent pad. Drinking water and vault toilets are available. The area includes…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($15), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Beaver Lake (Chequamegon-Nicolet NF, WI)Chequamegon National Forest · 0.9 mi
Lake ThreeChequamegon National Forest · 2.2 mi
Mineral LakeChequamegon National Forest · 3.4 mi
East TwinChequamegon National Forest · 7.8 mi
Day LakeChequamegon National Forest · 8.7 miNamekagon Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 9.8 miThe 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 night of the open season: typical October night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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 Recreation Area 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 →