Laurel Lake Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 29 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Laurel Lake is part of the 28 lake Three Lakes and Eagle River Chain of Lakes giving the visitor water access to nearly 11,500 acres of water and 174 miles of shoreline. The campground is located in a stand of grand old pines and young oaks. Keep reading
Recreation
The chain of lakes provides ample opportunity for boating, fishing and swimming. Anglers can expect a catch of musky, walleye, northern pike, large and smallmouth bass, rock bass, perch, crappie and other panfish. The lakes are open to all types of boating, motorized and non-motorized. The campground does not offer a beach area so any swimming to be done will have to take place from your boat.
Facilities
The campground offers 12 single family campsites, available for tent or RV camping. The campground is split between Area 1 which consists of eight sites and Area 2 which consists of four sites. The campground offers both first-come, first-served campsites (5) as well as sites which can be reserved in advance (7). Sites are equipped with tables and fire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided at the campground.
Natural Features
The campground is nestled in a stand of towering pines and young oak trees, at an elevation of 1,630 feet. Laurel Lake is one of 28 lakes which extend from Three Lakes to Eagle River and form the largest inland freshwater chain of lakes in the world, offering endless miles of boating and fishing opportunities, which can be access from the boat landing offered within the campground.
Nearby Attractions
The Town of Three Lakes, once named "America's Best Town" is located seven miles from the campground. Three Lakes offers a variety of services and activities.
What the agency tells you
Use is restricted to hardened area.
Hook-ups are not available
Click here for more information on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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 mor information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with tables and fire rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided at the campground.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided at the campground. Natural Features…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Water sports
- Night sky · 57th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 3
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 · 12
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
12 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 12 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. 12 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Laurel CG | 001 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 98 ft | 141 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 37 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 95 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 73 ft | under 10 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 107 ft | 37 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 123 ft | 86 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 123 ft | 44 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 008 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 152 ft | 194 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 108 ft | 38 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 010 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 106 ft | 22 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 104 ft | 53 ft | $15 |
| Laurel CG | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 104 ft | 73 ft | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Anvil Lake CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 8.6 miAnvil Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 8.7 mi
Luna White Deer CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 8.9 mi
Franklin Lake9.0 miFrom Three Lakes travel 4 miles east on STH 32 to Chicken in the Woods Road. Turn left (north) and continue 1.2 miles turning left (north) on Fourmile Road. Travel 0.2 miles, turn left (west) on Leatzow Road and continue 1.2 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 Three Lakes, 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
Laurel 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 →