Mineral Lake
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 13 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
We apologize, this campground is currently closed. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, swimming and fishing are popular activities among visitors. A boat ramp to the lake is provided off of Forest Service Road 187, about a mile from the campground. Anglers can expect a catch of a variety of freshwater lake and river species, including musky, bass, walleye and pan fish. Eagle watching is also a popular pastime. The forest is home to hundreds of miles of off-road vehicle, hiking and mountain biking trails, as well as numerous lakes, ponds and rivers to sink a line or launch a boat. Access to the North Country National Scenic Trail, which traverses thousands of miles from New York to North Dakota, is available nearby.
Facilities
Natural Features The 256-acre Mineral Lake is surrounded by a mixed hardwoods forest. Several campsites overlook the lake and the area is home to a variety of birds, including eagles, and plentiful wildlife.
Nearby Attractions
Morgan Falls and St. Peter's Dome, the highest peak in the forest, are both located nearby and make excellent day trips.
What the agency tells you
First-come, first-served sites may be available
Click here for more information on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forests
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 5th 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
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 9
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 10 sites
| MINERAL LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 124 ft | 373 ftCamp Six Creek |
| MINERAL LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 93 ft | 350 ft |
| MINERAL LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 370 ft |
| MINERAL LAKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 259 ft |
| MINERAL LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 312 ft |
| MINERAL LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 229 ft |
| MINERAL LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 230 ft |
| MINERAL LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 96 ft | 451 ft |
| MINERAL LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 96 ft | 487 ft |
| MINERAL LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 142 ft | 500 ftCamp Six Creek |
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
Lake ThreeChequamegon National Forest · 2.4 mi
Beaver Lake (Chequamegon-Nicolet NF, WI)Chequamegon National Forest · 2.5 miBeaver Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 3.4 mi
East TwinChequamegon National Forest · 7.0 mi
Day LakeChequamegon National Forest · 8.8 miNamekagon Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 13 miFrom Mellen, Wisconsin, take County Highway GG west for about 9 miles to the campground sign. Turn right and drive less than a mile to the campground.
From Clam Lake, Wisconsin, take County Highway GG north for about 9 miles to the campground sign and turn left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mellen, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 54°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
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Mineral Lake 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 →