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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · WI

Blackhawk Park

ReservableBookable through October 31, and from April 15 through April 16.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 16 nights read 16:24 UTC
A night: $18–$26Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 14878 on recreation.gov

Photos · Photo by Dean Klinkenberg

99 ftLongest rig

630 ftElevation

115 ftWater · Mississippi River

6 miN of Lansing, IA

0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices

In the agency’s own words

Blackhawk Park is located on a forested bend of the main channel of the Mississippi River. The campground is the largest public use facility in Mississippi's Pool 9, offering a wide variety of recreational activities. Keep reading

Recreation

Boating, kayaking, canoeing and fishing are Blackhawk's most popular forms of recreation. Park rangers provide a variety of programs and activities throughout the summer. Interpretive programs are based on recreation, local history and the environment. Other activities range from guided walks and campfire talks, to natural crafts programs. Here, one can view majestic bluffs and rich backwater vegetation. Sometimes a river barge or classic paddle-wheeled steamboat can be seen journeying up the river.

Facilities

The campground offers 150 campsites, including 73 with electrical hookups. All sites have a picnic table and fire ring provided. Flush toilets and showers are located in the West Camping loop. There are no full-hook up sites but a dump station and potable water are located within the park. The park also has a beach, two picnic shelters, two boat ramps, two playgrounds, a volleyball court, horseshoe pits, fishing docks.

Natural Features

This peaceful park is situated on the main channel of the Mississippi River. Cottonwoods, green ash, swamp oaks, river birch and willow trees forest the site, offering nice shade in the summer and beautiful fall colors in autumn. Visitors commonly see a variety of wildlife, including bald eagles, blue herons, ducks, geese, whitetail deer and wild turkey.

Nearby Attractions

The small river towns of DeSoto, Wisconsin and Lansing, Iowa are nearby. DeSoto is 5 minutes south, Lansing is 15 minutes south with a few restaurants and shops. LaCrosse, Wisconsin is 30 minutes north, with restaurants, shops, galleries and farmers markets. Effigy Mounds National Monument which is operated by the National Park Service (NPS) is located about a 40 minutes south of Blackhawk Park and offers excellent hiking opportunities, and well as picturesque views, and a visitor center, and is free to enter. The Driftless Area Education And Visitors Center in Lansing Iowa is a short 15 minute drive south, and explores the cultural, recreational, natural, and historical significance of the Driftless Area.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Check out is 2pm Check in is 3pm Quite hours are 10PM to 6AM. Generators are not allow during quite hours Pets must be on a 6 ft leash No ATVs, ORVs, or unlicensed motorized vehicles are allowed in the park No firearm or fireworks allowed

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.

Rule

Each campsite is allowed one camper and one tent or two tents, and a max of 8 people

Everything else this campground posts · 2

Rule

The following sites are double sites that share a driveway, but are reserved seperately: 32/33, 35/36, 38/39

Rule

Non-Electric site reservations are non-site specifc, reservations can be made to hold a site in the area, but specific location is selected upon arrival on a first come first serve bases.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 148
Hookups: 73 electric
Longest rig: 99 ft
Paved pads: 34 of 148
Accessible sites: 1
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: 38 of 57 sites

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…a picnic table and fire ring provided. Flush toilets and showers are located in the West Camping loop.…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Flush toilets and showers are located in the West Camping loop.”
Drinking water: Yes; WATER SPIGOT on 2 of 150 campsite records
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Playground: Yes
Stay limit: 14 nights; recreation.gov facility rule maxStay

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records and read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: River, Beach; Boating; Canoeing; Fishing; Ranger programs; Kayaking; Swimming
Night sky · 66th darkest of 70 in WI: Bortle 3

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

85 of 154 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:24 UTC

recreation.gov lists 78 of the 148 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

OpenBookedClosed

Booking windowThrough October 31Bookable now through October 31, 2026, the end of this reservable season, and again for April 15, 2027 through April 16, 2027. Today at 10 AM ET, availability opens through April 17, 2027.recreation.gov

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record

A night$18–$26plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$44–$60DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

Watch for a cancellation

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Tell me when the season opens

Watch for the season to open

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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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

A night, per site$18–$26

Standard Nonelectric$18

Standard Electric$26

Group area, a night$40

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 15, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$26–$34

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$44–$60

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$26 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

150 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 148 mapped sites

48 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomS002 664 ftS003 580 ftL053 180 ftLoop WEST 0058 110 ftLoop WEST 0052 98 ft

Least roomUpper 0012 19 ftUpper 0013 19 ftUpper 0021 22 ft

72 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 150 records

150 of 150 records located

Standard73RV / electric73Type not stated2Day use2

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 146 of the 150 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


BLACKHAWK PARK	B001	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	B002	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	B003	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	B004	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	B005	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	B006	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	B007	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	B008	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	B009	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	B010	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	Boathouse Area	standard nonelectric					52 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L001	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L002	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L003	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L004	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L005	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L006	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L007	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L008	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L009	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L010	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L011	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L012	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L013	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L014	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L015	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L016	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L017	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L018	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L019	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L020	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L021	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L022	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L023	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L024	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L025	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L026	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L027	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L028	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L029	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L030	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L031	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L032	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L033	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L034	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L035	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L036	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L037	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L038	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L039	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L040	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L041	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L042	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L043	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L044	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L045	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L046	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L047	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L048	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L049	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L050	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L051	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L052	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L053	standard nonelectric				180 ft	133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L054	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L055	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L056	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L057	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L058	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L059	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	L060	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	Lower Area (Green Lake)	standard nonelectric					133 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	Lower Area (Riverside)	standard nonelectric					100 ft	$18
BLACKHAWK PARK	S002	day use		15 amp		665 ft	304 ft	$40
BLACKHAWK PARK	S003	day use		15 amp		580 ft	under 10 ft	$40
Upper	0001	standard electric	80 ft	50 amp		34 ft	211 ft	$26
Upper	0002	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		27 ft	203 ft	$26
Upper	0003	standard electric	52 ft	50 amp		27 ft	202 ft	$26
Upper	0004	standard electric	38 ft	50 amp		29 ft	206 ft	$26
Upper	0005	standard electric	42 ft	50 amp		29 ft	209 ft	$26
Upper	0006	standard electric	53 ft	50 amp		64 ft	274 ft	$26
Upper	0007	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		25 ft	223 ft	$26
Upper	0008	standard electric	59 ft	50 amp		25 ft	221 ft	$26
Upper	0009	standard electric	75 ft	50 amp		26 ft	216 ft	$26
Upper	0010	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		28 ft	276 ft	$26
Upper	0011	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		22 ft	304 ft	$26
Upper	0012	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		19 ft	326 ft	$26
Upper	0013	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		19 ft	345 ft	$26
Upper	0014	standard electric	54 ft	30 amp		24 ft	378 ft	$26
Upper	0015	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		24 ft	401 ft	$26
Upper	0016	standard electric	48 ft	30 amp		26 ft	427 ft	$26
Upper	0017	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		27 ft	453 ft	$26
Upper	0018	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		31 ft	379 ft	$26
Upper	0019	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp		31 ft	381 ft	$26
Upper	0020	standard electric	46 ft	30 amp		36 ft	375 ft	$26
Upper	0021	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		22 ft	378 ft	$26
Upper	0022	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp		22 ft	375 ft	$26
Upper	0023	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp		39 ft	376 ft	$26
Upper	0024	standard electric	72 ft	30 amp		39 ft	370 ft	$26
Upper	0025	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		49 ft	355 ft	$26
Upper	0026	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		32 ft	331 ft	$26
Upper	0027	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		29 ft	335 ft	$26
Upper	0028	standard electric	80 ft	30 amp		29 ft	337 ft	$26
Upper	0029	standard electric	99 ft	30 amp		31 ft	347 ft	$26
Upper	0030	standard electric	75 ft	30 amp		55 ft	366 ft	$26
Upper	0031	standard electric	80 ft	30 amp		50 ft	527 ft	$26
Upper	0032	standard electric	35 ft	30 amp		30 ft	519 ft	$26
Upper	0033	standard electric	60 ft	30 amp		30 ft	520 ft	$26
Upper	0034	standard electric	75 ft	50 amp		48 ft	504 ft	$26
Upper	0035	standard electric	62 ft	30 amp		32 ft	501 ft	$26
Upper	0036	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		32 ft	483 ft	$26
Upper	0037	standard electric	70 ft	30 amp		70 ft	478 ft	$26
Upper	0038	standard electric	50 ft	30 amp		34 ft	485 ft	$26
Upper	0039	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		34 ft	474 ft	$26
Upper	VOL01	type not stated		50 amp			226 ft
WEST	0040	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		48 ft	68 ft	$26
WEST	0041	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		48 ft	71 ft	$26
WEST	0042	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		41 ft	70 ft	$26
WEST	0043	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		41 ft	62 ft	$26
WEST	0044	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		50 ft	49 ft	$26
WEST	0045	standard electric	55 ft	30 amp		50 ft	39 ft	$26
WEST	0046	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		57 ft	36 ft	$26
WEST	0047	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		50 ft	40 ft	$26
WEST	0048	standard electric	40 ft	30 amp		47 ft	43 ft	$26
WEST	0049	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp		47 ft	41 ft	$26
WEST	0050	standard electric	37 ft	30 amp		57 ft	42 ft	$26
WEST	0051	standard electric	45 ft	30 amp		63 ft	40 ft	$26
WEST	0052	standard electric	45 ft	50 amp		98 ft	32 ft	$26
WEST	0053	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		60 ft	54 ft	$26
WEST	0054	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		60 ft	56 ft	$26
WEST	0055	standard electric	55 ft	50 amp		60 ft	61 ft	$26
WEST	0056	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		60 ft	65 ft	$26
WEST	0057	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		80 ft	96 ft	$26
WEST	0058	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		110 ft	171 ft	$26
WEST	0059	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		88 ft	169 ft	$26
WEST	0060	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		72 ft	147 ft	$26
WEST	0061	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		70 ft	138 ft	$26
WEST	0062	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		70 ft	129 ft	$26
WEST	0063	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		74 ft	139 ft	$26
WEST	0064	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		74 ft	130 ft	$26
WEST	0065	standard electric	50 ft	50 amp	yes	76 ft	123 ft	$26
WEST	0066	standard electric	75 ft	50 amp		57 ft	306 ft	$26
WEST	0067	standard electric	75 ft	50 amp		57 ft	303 ft	$26
WEST	0068	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		65 ft	282 ft	$26
WEST	0069	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		86 ft	255 ft	$26
WEST	0070	standard electric	70 ft	50 amp		94 ft	234 ft	$26
WEST	0071	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		54 ft	131 ft	$26
WEST	0072	standard electric	60 ft	50 amp		54 ft	101 ft	$26
WEST	0073	standard electric	65 ft	50 amp		78 ft	98 ft	$26
WEST	VOL02	type not stated	70 ft	50 amp			123 ft

The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.

25 of 150 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate43.46215, -91.22391

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone608-648-3314

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Grant River61 mi

Blanding Landing91 mi

Getting there

From DeSoto, WI, travel 3 miles north on HWY 35 and turn left on County Road BI. From LaCrosse, WI, travel 25 miles south on HWY 35 and turn right on County Road BI.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight32°Areas Of Frost

Saturday60°Widespread Frost then Sunny

Saturday Night40°Clear

Sunday65°Sunny

NWS forecast for De Soto, WI

Source: National Weather Service, ARX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 42°F, day 61°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: GENOA DAM 8, WI (USC00473038), 8 miles away and at about the same elevation

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Blackhawk Park is in Wisconsin’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Derrick Van Orden (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov is offering sites on 15 of the next 16 nights, which isn’t something a closed campground does.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 78 of the 148 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 150 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.24 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 70 rated federal campgrounds in Wisconsin · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: De Soto, WI, 1.8 mi NNW. Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026