Moose Lake
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 8 mi
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 15All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 2 – October 31Open May 2 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Moose Lake Campground sits along its namesake lake in the Chequamegon National Forest of northern Wisconsin. The serene lake and surrounding forest offer a spectacular location for families to enjoy nature. Keep reading
Recreation
The location provides access to a variety of activities, including miles of off-road vehicle, hiking and mountain biking trails. Anglers will find an abundance of musky, walleye, bass and pan fish in the lake, and the clear water is ideal for kayaking, canoeing and swimming. A sandy beach and a boat ramp provide convenient lake access.
Facilities
This small and semi-secluded campground offers about 15 single-family campsites for tent and RV camping. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads into the campground are not paved and the parking aprons are grass and gravel.
Natural Features
Chequamegon National Forest offers 845,000 acres dotted with countless lakes, rivers and streams. Pine, spruce, maple, aspen, and balsam forests, as well as extensive jack pine plantations, make up the lush landscape. Moose Lake is a 1,670-acre body of water that is popular for fishing, boating and swimming. Elk, eagles, loons and other wildlife are often viewed in and near the campground.
What the agency tells you
First come, first served sites may be available
Off-road vehicles must be secured on a trailer when parked within the campground
Click here for more information on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forests
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 more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 15
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…with grills. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads into the…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Night sky · 9th 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
15 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 15 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. 15 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MOOSE LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 304 ft | $15 | |
| MOOSE LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 51 ft | 267 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 71 ft | 229 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 223 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 269 ft | $15 | |
| MOOSE LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 101 ft | 192 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 171 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 229 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 101 ft | 223 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 268 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 352 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 385 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 436 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 482 ft | $15 |
| MOOSE LAKE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 425 ft | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Black LakeChequamegon National Forest · 4.7 mi
Day LakeChequamegon National Forest · 12 mi
East TwinChequamegon National Forest · 14 mi
Stockfarm BridgeChequamegon National Forest · 15 mi
NamekagonChequamegon National Forest · 16 miNamekagon Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 16 miFrom Hayward, Wisconsin, drive east on State Highway 77 about 28 miles. Turn right onto Forest Service Road 174 and continue about a mile, then turn right onto Forest Service Road 176. After about 5 miles turn right again and drive less than 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 New Post, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 53°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Moose 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 →