Luna White Deer Campground
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 29 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15–$18Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 37All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Nestled between two deep clear lakes, Luna-White Deer Campground provides a north woods experience where you can hear the call of the loons at night and see lots of wildlife by day. Half of the campsites front on the two non-motorized lakes. A four-mile trail with great vistas circles the two lakes. Keep reading
Recreation
The lakes provide visitors ample opportunities for non-motorized boating, swimming and fishing. Anglers can expect a catch of largemouth bass, rock bass, perch, pumpkinseed and bluegill in both lakes as well as rainbow trout in White Deer Lake. A four-mile-long trail circles the two lakes and connects with over 30 miles of additional trails, including the Anvil National Recreation Trail. A variety of wildlife make its home in the area including resident American bald eagles in the towering pines along the shore and loons, which call into the night.
Facilities
The campground offers 37 single family campsites, available for tent or 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 and drinking water are available throughout the campground. For more information about the Luna White Deer area, view the Recreation Opportunity Guide (PDF).
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a dense mixed species forest, at an elevation of 1,735 feet. The adjacent lakes offer anglers opportunities to catch fish or the ability to relax on a sandy beach.
Nearby Attractions
The City of Eagle River is located about 19 miles northwest of the campground. Eagle River offers a variety of services and activities throughout the year.
What the agency tells you
No gas or electric motors are allowed. Use is restricted to hardened area.
No site hook-ups are available. However, drinking water is available at the facility
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 37 · 3 tent-only
- 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 available throughout the…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings with grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are available throughout the campground. For more…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 31st 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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $15–$18 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
37 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 37 mapped sitesAll 37 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. 37 of the 37 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LWD CG | 001 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 154 ft | 497 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 349 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 273 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 96 ft | 194 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 183 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 006 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 251 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 190 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 262 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 99 ft | 305 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 010 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 115 ft | 293 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 279 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 73 ft | 275 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 88 ft | 363 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 279 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 372 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 67 ft | 346 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 256 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 67 ft | 290 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 019 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 68 ft | 215 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 260 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 021 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 92 ft | 207 ftLuna Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 138 ft | 284 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 023 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 144 ft | 152 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 64 ft | 159 ftWhite Deer Lake | $18 |
| LWD CG | 025 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 237 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 243 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 027 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 64 ft | 171 ftWhite Deer Lake | $18 |
| LWD CG | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 123 ft | 310 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 123 ft | 432 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 030 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 85 ft | 154 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 031 | tent only nonelectric | 25 ft | 84 ft | 143 ftWhite Deer Lake | $18 |
| LWD CG | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 227 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 033 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 150 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 034 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 84 ft | 193 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 035 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 225 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 036 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 117 ft | 350 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
| LWD CG | 037 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 117 ft | 425 ftWhite Deer Lake | $15–$18 |
25 of 37 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Franklin Lake3.5 miFranklin Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 3.7 miSevenmile Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 4.2 miAnvil Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 5.9 mi
Anvil Lake CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 6.0 miFrom Eagle River, travel 13.4 miles on STH 70 to FR2176 (Divide Road). Turn right (south) and continue 5.6 miles to FR2188. Turn right and travel 0.7 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
Luna White Deer 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 →