Chippewa
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 18 mi
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $15–$28Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7673 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 20 – September 30Open May 20 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Chippewa Campground sits on the eastern shores of the Chequamegon Waters Flowage, where the bass fishing is spectacular. Its location provides visitors of any age with access to a variety of recreation opportunities, including fishing, water sports, and more. Chippewa Campground offers 78 campsties, 41 of which can be reserved. Keep reading
Recreation
The campground offers a beach, a playground and a walking trail to access other loops in the campground. Boating and fishing are popular activities on the lake, and a boat ramp is available. Anglers can expect to find plentiful populations of largemouth bass, pike and bluegill, among other species. A fish cleaning station is available near the entrance of the campground. The 20-mile Perkinstown Motorized Trail is a two-way trail, developed for off-road vehicles and motorcycles. It is also popular for snowmobiling during the winter months. The trail winds through rolling terrain, woodlands and wetlands as well as over wooden bridges. A great variety of wildlife and vegetation can be found along the trail.
Facilities
The campground offers dozens of single and double campsites for tent and RV camping. Electric is available at sites 31-49, other utility hookups are not available. However, the campground is equipped with a dump station and an RV fill-up near the campground entrance. All roads are paved. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible flush toilets and showers are available for sites 1 through 60. Accessible vault toilets are available for sites 61 through 78. Drinking water is provided throughout the campground.
Natural Features
The 1,020-foot elevation campground is situated in northwestern Wisconsin, adjacent to the 2,714-acre lake, under a heavy canopy of mixed hardwood and pine trees. Nearby Attractions
What the agency tells you
First-come, first-served sites are 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.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Registered campers with ATVs & UTVs can access the trail head from their campsite in the Rustic Loop only, Operation of ATVs & UTVs are prohibited in all other parts of the campground. View the Medford Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) here: Medford MVUM or Access o ur MVUM maps on the go with the Avenza app
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 76 · 10 group
- Hookups
- 17 electric
- Paved pads
- 1 of 76
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 72 of 76 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Pit Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 30 of 76 campsite records / PIT TOILETS on 18 of 76 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 58 of 76 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are available for sites 61 through 78. Drinking water is provided throughout the campground. Natural…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hunting
- Ice Fishing
- Water access
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 73 of the 76 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 · 19
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$28 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
76 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 42 mapped sitesAll 76 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. 76 of the 76 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BASS | P37 | standard electric | 50 amp | 77 ft | 337 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | P39 | standard electric | 50 amp | 113 ft | 314 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | P42 | standard electric | 50 amp | 76 ft | 191 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | P43 | standard electric | 50 amp | 76 ft | 219 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S31 | standard electric | 50 amp | 142 ft | 707 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S32 | standard electric | 50 amp | 126 ft | 566 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S33 | standard electric | 50 amp | 113 ft | 561 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S35 | standard electric | 50 amp | 77 ft | 358 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S36 | standard electric | 50 amp | 100 ft | 454 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S38 | standard electric | 50 amp | 104 ft | 435 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S40 | standard electric | 50 amp | 104 ft | 379 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S41 | standard electric | 50 amp | 109 ft | 294 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S44 | standard electric | 50 amp | 105 ft | 354 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S45 | standard electric | 50 amp | 105 ft | 454 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S46 | type not stated | 50 amp | 469 ft | $25–$28 | |
| BASS | S47 | standard electric | 50 amp | 163 ft | 582 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S48 | standard electric | 50 amp | 121 ft | 612 ft | $25–$28 |
| BASS | S49 | standard electric | 50 amp | 121 ft | 725 ft | $25–$28 |
| Beaver | P06 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | P08 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | P09 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | P10 | type not stated | $25–$28 | |||
| Beaver | P11 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | P12 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | P13 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | P14 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | P15 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | P16 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S01 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S02 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S03 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S04 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S05 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S07 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S17 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S18 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S19 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S20 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S21 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Beaver | S22 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 614 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Beaver | S23 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 667 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Beaver | S24 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 581 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Beaver | S25 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 665 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Beaver | S26 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 581 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Beaver | S27 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 683 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Beaver | S28 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 709 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Beaver | S29 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 659 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Beaver | S30 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 692 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Hardwoods | P52 | group standard nonelectric | 117 ft | 269 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Hardwoods | P53 | group standard nonelectric | 117 ft | 265 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Hardwoods | P54 | group standard nonelectric | 133 ft | 192 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Hardwoods | P56 | group standard nonelectric | 166 ft | 246 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Hardwoods | S50 | group standard nonelectric | 161 ft | 397 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Hardwoods | S51 | group standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 386 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Hardwoods | S55 | group standard nonelectric | 133 ft | 325 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Hardwoods | S57 | group standard nonelectric | 211 ft | 491 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Hardwoods | S59 | group standard nonelectric | 211 ft | 586 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Hardwoods | S60 | group standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 482 ft | $30–$36 | |
| Rustic | S61 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S62 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S63 | type not stated | $25–$28 | |||
| Rustic | S64 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S65 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S66 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S67 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S68 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S69 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S70 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 591 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Rustic | S71 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 579 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Rustic | S72 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 647 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Rustic | S73 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 701 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Rustic | S74 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 681 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Rustic | S75 | standard nonelectric | 89 ft | 771 ft | $15–$18 | |
| Rustic | S76 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S77 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 | |||
| Rustic | S78 | standard nonelectric | $15–$18 |
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 76 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Picnic Point (WI)Chequamegon National Forest · 14 mi
Spearhead PointChequamegon National Forest · 15 mi
West Point Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 15 mi
EastwoodChequamegon National Forest · 15 miFrom Medford, Wisconsin, travel north on State Highway 13 for 4 miles. Turn left onto County Road M and continue for about 24 miles then turn left onto Forest Road 1417.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gilman, WI
Typical weather
Typical May night 43°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 43°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Chippewa 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 →