Lost Lake Cabins
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- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lost Lake Cabins offers (11) cabins available for rent in the remote forested area situated on the shores of Lost Lake. These cabins are located in a group setting and provide an excellent base for rent by individuals, families, family reunions or any large group. The entire facility can sleep up to 60 people and is a great base for water fun, swimming, non motor boating, fishing, hiking, bird watching, mushrooming, hunting and many day-trip locations into the Upper Peninsula. Cabins can be rented from mid-May through mid-October. Keep reading
Rental fees are per cabin, per day whether for one or six persons with an 8 night maximum stay and 2 night minimum stay on the weekend. Cabins can be reserved up to 6 months in advance. Cabins 1 through 8 are located adjacent to and along the shore of the lake, while the First Aid Cabin, Staff Cabin #2 and Staff Cabin #1 are a bit further away from the lake. The Lost Lake Campground located across the lake offers friends and family the opportunity to tent camp or RV camping and still be within a short 1/4 mile walk to the Cabins.
Recreation
The 92-acre Lost Lake is stocked with perch, brown and rainbow trout and smallmouth bass. No motors are permitted on Lost Lake, but there is a boat access area available at the Lost Lake Campground. For visitors looking to beat the summer heat with a cool dip in the waters of Lost Lake, there is a small beach located at the cabins. In addition, there is a larger, appealing swimming beach available at the Lost Lake Campground. The Lost Lake Trail, a 1-mile interpretive trail through a stand of 150-year-old hemlock and pine, is a short walk from the cabins. Trails also connect to the Ridge trail and Assesors trail. the Lauterman National Recreation Trail system is just over 1 mile from the cabins.
Facilities
Cabins #1 through #8 and Staff Cabin #2 are simple one-room wood frame structures with three bunk beds that can sleep up to six people. All cabins have electricity, lights and outlets. Use your imagination and bring a fan, space heater, electric blanket, crockpot, coffee maker... Please bring your own bedding and pillows as these items are not provided. It is glorified camping! Staff Cabin #1 comfortably sleeps 2. It is furnished with a dining table with chairs and a love seat. This beautiful cabin has a full kitchen with stove, a full bathroom with a shower and baseboard heat to comfort you on those cold evenings. The First Aid Cabin sleeps 4 and has a kitchenette (no stove), a1/2 bath (no shower) and boasts baseboard heat to stave off the cold while resting up for the next adventure. Bathrooms and showers are provided within two central buildings. One Men's Bath and Shower House and one Women's Bath and Shower House. Drinking water is provided from a faucet at the back of the well house. There is an artesian well located just one mile away at the Chipmunk Rapids campground. A central recreation hall is also available for group gatherings or other activities and is open to use to anyone at anytime. The newly (2012) refurbished kitchen can accommodate weddings, retreats, family reunions, and the whole Lost Lake Camp. It is equipped with a gas range stove and oven as well as a big freezer/refrigerator. THE KITCHEN IS A "FOR RENT" FACILITY ONLY" and must be rented on this site or on-site prior to use. THIS IS A KITCHEN ONLY AND CANNOT BE UTILIZED FOR SLEEPING QUARTERS. A new double sink along with plenty of counter space and pots and pans are provided. Renters must bring their own plates, utensils, and other specialized equipment to ensure a comfortable stay. There is also a new Lecture Hall available for meetings, training, weddings, retreats, and family reunions. The hall has electricity and is accessible; building capacity is 90 people. Men and women's bathrooms and showers are provided near by.
Natural Features
The cabins sit amidst a forest of old-growth trees consisting mostly of Hemlock and Maple within walking distance of Lost Lake. The 92-acre lake gets its name from the lack of apparent inflow or outlet of water. The lake is actually fed by springs and the lake is a "No-Motor Lake". Tall white pines, hemlocks and other evergreens border the lake, Loons can be heard singing across the lake. A watchful eye can catch the resident eagle or osprey as they search the waters for their next meal. The lake is stocked yearly with Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout and also has a good population of Smallmouth Bass and panfish. The cabins are a short drive to the Whisker Lake Wilderness. Learn more about the wilderness HERE .
Nearby Attractions
Numerous Lakes and Rivers nearby to explore, kayak or canoe. Several trails to hike and only about 10 minutes to the Whisker Lake Wilderness Area off of Highway 70. Great Biking trails located within an hour West near Eagle River, WI. Local Florence County Waterfall Tour and you could take in the Iron Mine Tour about 40 minutes away. From the Lost Lake Cabins you could do day trips to the Sylvania Wilderness, Bond Falls, Porcupine Mountains or Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superios all within a two hour drive in the Upper Peninsula.
What the agency tells you
Canoes, kayaks, tubes, row-boat, paddle board and peddle boat are also available for rent on-site through the camp host located in Staff Cabin #3.
Lost Lake Cabins offer firewood for sale, or you may purchase firewood locally or cut it in the National Forest with the appropriate permit. Please do not bring in firewood from outside the area in order to prevent the spread of invasive species.
Ice is available for sale on-site.
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In the Lecture Hall you will find several fun activities for the kids including, air hockey, foosball table, ping pong table, tumbling mats, etc., for those rainy days. The lecture hall should not be rented as a sleeping facility!
If you need anything during your stay please ask the campground hosts Chase and Lisa in Staff Cabin #3 located near the recreation hall.
Pets are allowed but must be leashed and never left unattended
No firearms or fireworks allowed in campground
Cabin guests and campers must bring their own trash bags and pack out all trash to the dumpster. Dumpster on the left is for loose recycling!
Guests must clean out the cabin before departure, sweep off steps and leave the cabin as you found it. If you need additional cleaning supplies, please just ask us. Strip the bed sheets and deliver them to the laundry room on-site prior to departure. THE MATRESSES ARE FITTED WITH A FITTED SHEET, YOU MUST BRING YOUR OWN SLEEPING BEDDING! Clean the site of all garbage and trash.
Campground hosts are located in Staff Cabin #3 near the recreation hall for check-in.
If you are attempting to reserve a cabin within 2 days of your arrival date it may show that nothing is available and you may not be able to make a reservation online. We ask that you please contact the management company, Northwood's Property Management & Maintenance, LLC directly for up-to-date availability and/or drive-up-rental availability. You may contact Chase Erickson by email at chase@wildriversrealty.com or by cell/text, 1.906.396.5428. You may also try Lisa Erickson at 1.906.396.5427 (cell/text).
Learn more about the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
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.
Quiet hours are honored and enforced between 10:00 P.M. and 6:00 A.M. Check-in is no earlier than 2:00 P.M. and checkout is no later than 10:00 A.M. If you will be arriving later than 10:00 P.M. you must text and let the campground host know in advance!! Please respect the hosts off time between 8:00 P.M. and 9:00 A.M. You may text Chase at 1.906.396.5428 or Lisa at 1.906.396.5427.
If you move furniture or bunk beds, put them back in the location you found them in prior to leaving. They are very difficult to move back for one person after you leave, thank you!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 11 cabin
- Hookups
- 11 electric, 3 water
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and one Women's Bath and Shower House. Drinking water is provided from a faucet at the back of the well…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Campground Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Beach
- Accessible Swimming
- Auto Touring
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Ranger programs
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Mushroom Picking
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.
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What you actually pay
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
13 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 13 mapped sitesAll 13 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 11 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOST LAKE CABINS | 001 | cabin electric | 5 amp | 116 ft | 219 ft | $50–$85 | |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | 002 | cabin electric | 5 amp | 116 ft | 226 ft | $50–$85 | |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | 003 | cabin electric | 5 amp | yes | 106 ft | 274 ft | $50–$85 |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | 004 | cabin electric | 5 amp | yes | 106 ft | 249 ft | $50–$85 |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | 005 | cabin electric | 5 amp | 60 ft | 166 ft | $50–$85 | |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | 006 | cabin electric | 5 amp | 60 ft | 174 ft | $50–$85 | |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | 007 | cabin electric | 5 amp | 62 ft | 158 ft | $50–$85 | |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | 008 | cabin electric | 5 amp | 80 ft | 178 ft | $50–$85 | |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | Kitchen | day use | 15 amp | yes | 69 ft | 177 ft | $50–$85 |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | Lecture Hall | day use | 15 amp | yes | 117 ft | 373 ft | $50–$85 |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | Old First Aid Cabin | cabin electric | 5 amp | 117 ft | 471 ft | $50–$85 | |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | Old Staff Cabin 1 | cabin electric | 5 amp | yes | 342 ft | 669 ft | $50–$85 |
| LOST LAKE CABINS | Old Staff Cabin 2 | cabin electric | 5 amp | 139 ft | 331 ft | $50–$85 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lost Lake Campground (WI)Nicolet National Forest · 0.6 miChipmunk Rapids Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 1.1 mi
Morgan Lake Campground and Group SiteNicolet National Forest · 7.3 miMorgan Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 7.3 miStevens Lake CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 7.9 miLost Lake rustic cabins are located about 100 yards South of the Lost Lake Campground off of Forest Service Road 2156! From Florence, take Highway 70 for about 20 miles and take a righ onto Forest Service Road 2450, go about 1 mile and continue straight onto Forest Service Road 2156 towards Chipmunk Rapids Campground about three miles, you will have crossed a bridge over the Pine River, drive by the Chipmunk Rapids Campground on your left, go about 1 mile and go past the Lost Lake Campground on your left. Go about 100 yards and take a left into the Driveway to the Lost Lake Cabins. You have been driving on blacktop and if you hit gravel you went too far. Address is 4450 Chipmunk Rapids Road. Lost Lake is one hour east of Eagle River via State Highway 70 or one hour west of Iron Mountain, Michigan via US Highway 2 and State Highway 70.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Long Lake, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 0°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
Lost Lake Cabins 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 →