Laura Lake Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 28 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 41All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
With two beautiful clear water lakes, undeveloped shoreline, and restricted motor use, Laura Lake Campground provides an exceptional camping opportunity. Keep reading
Recreation
The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest has an abundance of outdoor recreation opportunities. Those most enjoyed at Laura Lake are fishing, swimming, kayaking, canoeing, and hiking the trail that goes around the lake. The area also provides a bike trail that runs along the old Lake 9 railroad grade.
Facilities
Laura Lake Campground has 41 sites. A majority of sites can accommodate campers as long as 30 feet and longer. Drinking water, vault toilets, swim beach, picnic area, and a boat landing are also provided at this location. All roads are paved with blacktop.
Natural Features
Campsites are located on the southwestern shore of 110-acre Laura Lake. The picnic and swim beach are located on the adjacent 50-acre Gordon Lake. Both lakes have developed back-in boat landings. Please note these lakes are restricted to electric motors only.
Nearby Attractions
Laura Lake site has a 2.25-mile hiking trail around the lake and 6.5 mile bike trail. Both Laura and Gordon Lakes provide good fishing opportunities.
What the agency tells you
Use at this campground is heavy during summer holiday, so come early in the week.
There are no electric site hook-ups at this facility.
Laura Lake is restricted to electric boat motors use only.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Some of the sites are first-come, first-served.
All firewood brought into the campground must be harvested within 10 miles of the campground.
Privately owned ATV's, UTV's, and Golf Carts are not allowed to be operated within the campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 41 · 2 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 73 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…as 30 feet and longer. Drinking water, vault toilets, swim beach, picnic area, and a boat landing are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campers as long as 30 feet and longer. Drinking water, vault toilets, swim beach, picnic area, and a boat…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Night sky · 39th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 37 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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
41 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 41 mapped sitesAll 41 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. 41 of the 41 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 01 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 115 ft | 293 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 02 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 87 ft | 188 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 03 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 87 ft | 152 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 04 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 101 ft | 247 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 05 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 86 ft | 121 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 06 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 101 ft | 218 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 07 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 86 ft | 103 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 08 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 119 ft | 213 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 09 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 97 ft | 97 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 10 | tent only nonelectric | 60 ft | 123 ft | 218 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 11 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 107 ft | 98 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 12 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 117 ft | 251 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 13 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 105 ft | 134 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 14 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 105 ft | 170 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 15 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 111 ft | 126 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 16 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 119 ft | 135 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 17 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 132 ft | 261 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 18 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 119 ft | 139 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 19 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 137 ft | 274 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 20 | tent only nonelectric | 38 ft | 118 ft | 147 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 21 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 118 ft | 159 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 22 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 137 ft | 315 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 23 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 166 ft | 150 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 24 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 171 ft | 181 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 25 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 171 ft | 324 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 26 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 137 ft | 328 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 27 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 154 ft | 711 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 28 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 153 ft | 502 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 29 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 128 ft | 667 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 30 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 128 ft | 627 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 31 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 149 ft | 234 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 32 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 149 ft | 142 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 33 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 103 ft | 274 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 34 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 103 ft | 269 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 35 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 169 ft | 105 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 36 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 115 ft | 216 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 37 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 132 ft | 61 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 38 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 132 ft | 94 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 39 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 194 ft | 14 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 40 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 106 ft | 219 ft | $15 |
| LAURA LAKE CAMPGROUND | 41 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 188 ft | 424 ft | $15 |
25 of 41 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Morgan Lake Campground and Group SiteNicolet National Forest · 5.0 mi
Lost Lake CabinsNicolet National Forest · 12 miLost Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 13 mi
Lost Lake Campground (WI)Nicolet National Forest · 13 miFrom Armstrong Creek, drive west 1.9 miles on Highway 8 to FR 2163. Turn right (north) on FR2163 and drive 4 miles to the campground.
From Laona, drive north 14 miles on Highway 8 to FR 2163. Turn left (north) on 2163 and drive 4 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Goodman, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 4°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
Laura 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 →