Kentuck Lake Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 27 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15–$28Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 3130 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Early settlers from Kentucky gave the name to Kentuck Lake. Kentuck Lake Campground is located on the east lake shore of Kentuck Lake in a stand of maple. The 955-acre lake is popular with anglers and has abundant walleye, bass, crappies and panfish. Kentuck lake is connected to Spectacle Lake Campground by a scenic 2.5-mile-long hiking trail. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake provides visitors with ample opportunities for boating and fishing. Anglers can expect a catch of musky, walleye, northern pike, large and smallmouth bass, crappie and perch. The lake is open to all types of boating, motorized and non-motorized. A trail linking the campground to the Spectacle Lake Campground begins near the boat landing and stretches 2.5 miles though mature upland hardwoods and lowland conifer areas. A variety of wildlife make its home in the area and visitors are encouraged to keep watch.
Facilities
The campground offers 31 single family campsites, available for tent or RV camping. The campground offers both first-come, first-served (13) campsites as well as sites which can be reserved in advance (18). Sites are equipped with tables and fire rings with grills. A pressurized water system is available for drinking water.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a stand of maple, at an elevation of 1,730 feet. The adjacent Kentuck Lake is accessible by the boat landing which is located within the campground.
Nearby Attractions
The City of Eagle River is located about 17 miles west of the campground. A variety of services and activities are offered in Eagle River.
What the agency tells you
Hookups are not available
Click here for more information on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
Dont' 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 onsite. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for more information.
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Use is restricted to hardened area
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 31 · 2 tent-only
- Hookups
- 13 electric
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…water system is available for drinking water. Natural Features The campground is situated in a…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 21st darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:41 UTC
recreation.gov lists 30 of the 31 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 15
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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:41 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 31 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. 31 of the 31 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Kentuck CG | 01 | standard electric | 30 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 64 ft | 240 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 |
| Kentuck CG | 02 | standard electric | 35 ft | 20/30/50 amp | 64 ft | 187 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 |
| Kentuck CG | 03 | standard electric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 259 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 04 | standard electric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 140 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 05 | standard electric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 119 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 06 | standard electric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 119 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 07 | type not stated | 40 ft | 253 ftKentuck Lake | $25 | ||
| Kentuck CG | 08 | standard electric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 205 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 09 | standard electric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 296 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 10 | standard electric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 375 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 11 | standard electric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 445 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 12 | standard electric | 30 ft | 83 ft | 512 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 13 | standard electric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 493 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 14 | standard electric | 40 ft | 136 ft | 627 ftKentuck Lake | $25–$28 | |
| Kentuck CG | 15 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 159 ft | 398 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 16 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 117 ft | 286 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 17 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 95 ft | 393 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 18 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 324 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 19 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 107 ft | 450 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 20 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 107 ft | 372 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 21 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 107 ft | 473 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 22 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 111 ft | 393 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 23 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 98 ft | 647 ftKentuck Creek | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 24 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 105 ft | 742 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 25 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 96 ft | 624 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 26 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 105 ft | 692 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 27 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 96 ft | 570 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 28 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 103 ft | 629 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 29 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 103 ft | 604 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 30 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 107 ft | 477 ftKentuck Lake | $15 | |
| Kentuck CG | 31 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 107 ft | 470 ftKentuck Lake | $15 |
25 of 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Spectacle Lake Campground (Wisconsin)Nicolet National Forest · 2.2 miFranklin Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 3.7 mi
Franklin Lake4.8 miAnvil Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 5.5 miFrom Eagle River travel east 13.4 miles on STH 70 to FR2176 (Divide Road). Turn left (north) on FR2176 and continue 2.7 miles to the campground entrance on the left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Eagle River, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 53°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
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
Kentuck Lake Campground 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 →