Highland Ridge
1Heads up1 fire 47 mi away
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:14 UTC
- A night
- $24–$30Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 58All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Highland Ridge overlooks the sparkling Eau Galle Reservoir located in Spring Valley, in western Wisconsin. The area boasts 648 acres of scenery with numerous opportunities for recreation, including fishing, canoeing and plenty of hiking. Horseback riders enjoy the trails around the lush region. Keep reading
Recreation
Hikers can enjoy the 7 miles worth of trails, along with overlook seating areas and a swimming beach. Horseback riders have a variety of trails to choose from. Fishermen cast their reels year-round. Kayaking, canoeing, and electric-motor boating are common.
Facilities
Highland Ridge has fourty-six campsites (thirty-five with electric) including eight walk-in tent sites. Showers, trash/recycle stations, an interpretive building, water fill stations, dump station, and a playground are all available for campers. During the summer, weekly interpretive programs are presented on Saturday evenings by the Park Rangers. Highland Ridge; Equestrian Loop has ten electric campsites. Manure pits, hitching posts, vault toilets, water fill stations, dump station, and garbage/recycling stations are available for campers.
Natural Features
The 35-mile Eau Galle River feeds into 150 acre Eau Galle Lake, which is surrounded by steep hills and bluffs. The campground is opposite the dam on the north side of the small reservoir. The area is set in a heavily wooded area that provides a welcoming habitat for native plants and animals. Contact Info This location has limited staffing. Please call (715) 778-5562 for general information.
Nearby Attractions
Highland Ridge is minutes from Spring Valley Golf Course, Crystal Cave, Cady Cheese Factory, Red Cedar Bike Trial, Vino in the Valley, Nugget Lake, Wakanda Water Park, Maple Leaf Orchard and Goven's Farm.
What the agency tells you
The opening date of the campground in May and the closing date of the campground in November will vary depending on the weather conditions. Please call the park office at 715-778-5562 to verify that the campground is open.
Each campsite [excluding Group Site 1 (GS1)] is limited to 1 camper and 1 tent or 2 tents with 6 occupants maximum. All camping equipment must stay on the designated campsite.
Need to make changes to your reservations? - Use the Recreation.gov Mobile App (on Android and Apple) - Log into Recretion.gov - Call 1-877-444-6777 Questions about the park can be directed to the Ranger Staff at 715-778-5562 or Eau.Galle.Lake@usace.army.mil.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Campground quiet hours: 10:00 pm to 6:00 am - Generators can not be used during quiet hours
Campsite check in: 1 P.M. Campsite check out: 12 P.M. (Noon)
Firewood is NOT available within the park. All firewood brought into the park must be certified pest free in accordance with the US Army Corps of Engineeers Firewood Policy. For more information please contact park staff.
Horses and Horse Riding is limited to the NN Landing, Northwest Day Use Area, Equestrian Campground, and designated Equestrian Trails.
ATVs/UTVs, golf carts, and motorized scooters are not permitted within the park.
Check Beach Status: https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Beaches/AdvisoryMap.html
All other Rules and Regulations covered under Title 36 - Parks, Forests, and Public Property https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-36/chapter-III
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 58 · 4 tent-only, 7 walk-in, 3 group, 11 equestrian
- Hookups
- 46 electric
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 58
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 44 of 48 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 59 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 2 of 59 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 2 of 59 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Playground
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Beach
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horse Camping
- Horseback riding
- Kayaking
- Picnicking
- Swimming
- Visitor center
- Night sky · 69th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 4
20 of 110 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:14 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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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 · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $24–$30 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:14 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
59 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 56 mapped sitesAll 59 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 45 of the 59 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 55 of the 59 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Equestrian Group Loop | EQUESTRIAN CAMPING | group equestrian | 50 amp | Accessible Vault Toilets listed | $256 | ||||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 01 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 690 ftEau Galle River | 573 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 02 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 72 ft | 749 ft | 563 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 03 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 682 ftEau Galle River | 498 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 04 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 774 ftEau Galle River | 457 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 05 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 705 ftEau Galle River | 291 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 06 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 121 ft | 803 ftEau Galle River | 295 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 07 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 68 ft | 706 ftEau Galle River | 247 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 08 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 809 ftEau Galle River | 171 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 09 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 83 ft | 685 ftEau Galle River | 230 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 10 | standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 111 ft | 799 ftLake George | 110 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 11 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 89 ft | 700 ftLake George | 169 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 12 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | yes | 73 ft | 704 ftLake George | 178 ft | $28 |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 13 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 714 ftLake George | 216 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 14 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 84 ft | 693 ftLake George | 287 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 15 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 677 ftLake George | 413 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 16 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 103 ft | 660 ftLake George | 515 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 17 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 118 ft | 615 ftLake George | 656 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 18 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 550 ftLake George | 766 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 19 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 65 ft | 509 ftLake George | 826 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 20 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 92 ft | 559 ftLake George | 876 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 21 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 110 ft | 666 ftLake George | 866 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 22 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 126 ft | 766 ftLake George | 581 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 23 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 786 ftLake George | 412 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 24 | standard electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 98 ft | 792 ftLake George | 314 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 25 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 138 ft | 930 ft | 230 ft | $24 | ||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 26 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 121 ft | 909 ftEau Galle River | 203 ft | |||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 27 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 68 ft | 747 ft | 483 ft | |||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 28 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 53 ft | 624 ft | 848 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 29 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 595 ft | 817 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 30 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 45 ft | 551 ft | 825 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 31 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50 amp | 46 ft | 506 ft | 853 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 32 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 48 ft | 479 ft | 902 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 33 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 467 ft | 950 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 34 | standard electric | 25 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 436 ft | 1,001 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 35 | standard electric | 20 ft | 50 amp | 61 ft | 425 ft | 1,060 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 36 | standard electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 50 ft | 465 ft | 1,080 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 37 | tent only electric | 30 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 512 ft | 1,077 ft | ||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | 38 | standard electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 43 ft | 553 ft | 1,052 ft | $28 | |
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | A | walk to | 71 ft | 652 ftEau Galle River | 256 ft | $24 | |||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | B | walk to | 69 ft | 631 ftEau Galle River | 294 ft | $24 | |||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | C | walk to | 81 ft | 563 ftEau Galle River | 345 ft | $24 | |||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | D | walk to | 69 ft | 570 ftEau Galle River | 363 ft | $24 | |||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | E | walk to | 4704 ft | 1,861 ftLohn Creek | $24 | ||||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | F | walk to | 85 ft | 763 ftLake George | 783 ft | $24 | |||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | G | walk to | 85 ft | 799 ftLake George | 706 ft | $24 | |||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | Group Loop (11 sites) | group standard electric | Electricity Hookup | Accessible Vault Toilets +1 listed | $280 | ||||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | GS1 | group tent only area nonelectric | 237 ft | 927 ft | 498 ft | $35 | |||
| HIGHLAND RIDGE | HOST | host pad | 50 amp | ||||||
| Prairie Loop | 39E | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 158 ft | 1,504 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| Prairie Loop | 40E | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 1,495 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| Prairie Loop | 41E | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 52 ft | 1,535 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| Prairie Loop | 42E | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 56 ft | 1,590 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| Prairie Loop | 43E | equestrian electric | 35 ft | 50 amp | 73 ft | 1,641 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| Prairie Loop | 44E | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 101 ft | 1,668 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| Prairie Loop | 45E | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 80 ft | 1,661 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| Prairie Loop | 46E | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 1,696 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| Prairie Loop | 47E | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 1,720 ft | $28–$30 | ||
| Prairie Loop | 48E | equestrian electric | 45 ft | 50 amp | 74 ft | 1,725 ft | $28–$30 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 59 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lower St. Croix District37 mi
Middle St. Croix68 mi
Namekagon District74 mi
ChippewaChequamegon National Forest · 79 miKathryn Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 83 miNorth Twin Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 92 miInterstate 94 east from Minneapolis/St. Paul to Exit 24. Take County Road B at Exit 24 south approximately 2 miles. Follow highway signs east on County Road N for another 2 miles until it intersects County Road NN. Go south on NN for 2 miles until campground entrance sign, turn right onto Dugan Road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Spring Valley, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 2°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Highland Ridge 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 →