Lost Lake Campground (WI)
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 24 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 27All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Please note, this is Lost Lake Campground located in northern Wisconsin on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. Lost Lake Campground is located in northeastern Wisconsin on the north shore of Lost Lake in a maple, aspen and white pine forest. The clear, 86-acre lake is stocked with rainbow and brown trout. No motors are permitted on Lost Lake. The Assessor's Nature Trail, which passes through a 150-year old hemlock and white pine stand, is located adjacent to the campground. The 3.3-mile-long Ridge Trail is also accessed from the trailhead adjacent to the campground. This trail links Lost Lake to Chipmunk Rapids Campground and the Lauterman National Recreation Trail. Keep reading
Recreation
The lake provides opportunities for fishing, swimming and non-motorized boating. Anglers can expect to catch bass, trout and panfish. No motors are allowed on the lake including electric motors. Numerous trails exist in the area, many beginning in the campground and extending miles to other trail systems. The Lost Lake trail loops the lake itself and travels through old growth hemlock forests. The Assessor's Nature Trail also extends from the campground and provides views of 150-year old pine stands. The Ridge trail extends from Lost Lake Campground to Chipmunk Rapids Campground and eventually on to the Lauterman National Recreation Trail. A variety of wildlife make its home in the area, including resident American bald eagles and loons. The sounds of your visit will not be soon forgotten.
Facilities
The campground offers 27 single family campsites, available for tent and RV camping. The campground offers both first-come, first-served campsites as well as sites which can be reserved in advance. Sites are equipped with tables and fire rings with grills. Vault toilets are available at the site, as well as drinking water, from a pressurized system or a hand-pump.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the shore of crystal clear Lost Lake in a stand of maple, aspen and towering white pine trees. Lost Lake, at 86 acres, offers a relaxing paddle as no motors are allowed on this lake. A sandy beach area is available to enjoy the water.
Nearby Attractions
The Town of Florence is located east of the campground approximately 20 miles. Florence offers a variety of services and visitor information.
What the agency tells you
Lost Lake Campground is located in Long Lake Township in Northeastern Wisconsin.
Don't move firewood!
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27
- 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 are available at the site, as well as drinking…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are available at the site, as well as drinking water, from a pressurized system or a hand-pump. Natural…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 16th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 2
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
27 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 27 mapped sitesAll 27 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. 27 of the 27 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 CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 443 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 397 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 302 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 234 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 351 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 77 ft | 214 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 328 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 210 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 101 ft | 219 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 101 ft | 214 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 342 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 346 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 129 ft | 230 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 123 ft | 342 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 147 ft | 182 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 147 ft | 324 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 108 ft | 194 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 108 ft | 205 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 140 ft | 344 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 151 ft | 218 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 160 ft | 378 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 155 ft | 245 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 121 ft | 268 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 121 ft | 332 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 128 ft | 394 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 152 ft | 490 ft | $15 |
| LOST LAKE CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 131 ft | 501 ft | $15 |
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lost Lake CabinsNicolet National Forest · 0.6 miStevens Lake CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 7.7 miStevens Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 7.7 mi
Morgan Lake Campground and Group SiteNicolet National Forest · 7.8 miFrom Florence, travel west 17 miles on STH 70 to the intersection with FR2450 (Dream Lake Road). Turn left (south) on FR2450 and drive 1 mile to FR2156 (Chipmunk Rapids Road). Continue straight 2.9 miles on FR2156 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 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 Campground (WI) 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 →