Black Lake
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 11 mi
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 2928 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 2 – October 31Open May 2 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Black Lake is highly ranked as a family-favorite campground. It is spread out along the eastern shores of its namesake, Black Lake. The calm waters beckon to adventurers, offering fishing, boating, swimming and other recreational activities in the northwestern Wisconsin wilderness. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake offers plentiful fishing, with musky, walleye, bass and pan fish available in abundance. Kayaking and canoeing are also enjoyed by visitors, as the water is usually peaceful and calm. A variety of wildlife, including elk, deer, loon, fox and others, make their homes in the area and are often spotted by visitors. Hundreds of miles of off-road vehicle, hiking and mountain biking trails surround the lake. The Black Lake interpretive trail offers a 4-mile, in-depth look at the nature that surrounds the wooded shoreline. A grassy beach provides ample space to run and play, as well as a spot to relax.
Facilities
The campground offers dozens of waterfront sites for tent and RV camping. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water, trash collection and recycling bins are also available.
Natural Features
The campground is located in a birch, pine and spruce forest that stretches along the beautiful 129-acre lake, in the southern part of the Chequamegon National Forest.
Nearby Attractions
Fuel, fishing supplies, firewood and restaurants are within a 15-mile drive of the campground, in the town of Hayward.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicles must be secured on a trailer when parked within the campground
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
- 29 · 4 tent-only, 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 26 of 29 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water, trash collection and recycling…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grills. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water, trash collection and recycling bins are also…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Fishing
- Night sky · 4th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 28 of the 29 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 · 13
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
29 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 28 mapped sitesAll 29 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. 26 of the 29 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BLACK LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 114 ft | 70 ftBlack Lake | $15 |
| BLACK LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 104 ft | 120 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 114 ft | 184 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 116 ft | 121 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 104 ft | 208 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 151 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 99 ft | 249 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 86 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 86 ft | 102 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 86 ft | 135 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 96 ft | 219 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 96 ft | 269 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 013 | type not stated | 45 ft | 138 ftBlack Lake | |||
| BLACK LAKE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 75 ft | 195 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 015 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 120 ftBlack Lake | ||
| BLACK LAKE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 113 ft | 118 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 108 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 68 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 262 ft | 123 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 143 ft | 252 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 116 ft | 134 ftBlack Lake | $15 | |
| BLACK LAKE | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 116 ft | 91 ftBlack Lake | $15 |
| BLACK LAKE | 023 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 143 ft | 268 ftBlack Lake | ||
| BLACK LAKE | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 102 ft | 118 ftBlack Lake | $15 |
| BLACK LAKE | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 102 ft | 202 ftBlack Lake | $15 |
| BLACK LAKE | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 215 ft | 348 ftBlack Lake | $15 | ||
| BLACK LAKE | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 165 ft | 70 ftBlack Lake | $15 | ||
| BLACK LAKE | 028 | tent only nonelectric | 97 ft | 24 ftBlack Lake | $15 | ||
| BLACK LAKE | 029 | tent only nonelectric | 97 ft | 51 ftBlack Lake | $15 |
25 of 29 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Moose LakeChequamegon National Forest · 4.7 mi
Stockfarm BridgeChequamegon National Forest · 11 mi
Day LakeChequamegon National Forest · 13 mi
East TwinChequamegon National Forest · 15 mi
NamekagonChequamegon National Forest · 19 miNamekagon Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 19 miFrom Hayward, Wisconsin, take Highway B east for about 23 miles. Turn left on Barker Lake Road, which turns into Forest Service Road 172, and continue for a total of 8 miles. Turn left onto Forest Service Road 173 and drive less than a mile to the paved campground road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for New Post, 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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Black Lake 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 →