Namekagon
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 21 mi
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $18–$28Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 34All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Namekagon campground is a family-friendly campground that runs alongside its namesake lake, at the headwaters of the Namekagon River. It is the perfect spot to kayak, canoe, jet ski, swim or take a boat ride to one of the many restaurants along the shoreline. With its close proximity to mountain bike trails and the North Country hiking trail, Namekagon campground is an ideal location for making a base camp. Keep reading
Recreation
Namekagon Lake offers excellent fishing, and anglers will find musky, pike, walleye and bass, among other fish varieties, available in abundance. The campground is conveniently located near off-highway vehicle, hiking and mountain bike trails. The North Country National Scenic Trail is also nearby. The Namekagon Nature Trail is a one mile interpretive trail which traverses the immediate area and begins in the campground.
Facilities
The campground offers a couple dozen single-family campsites for tent or RV camping. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets, drinking water, trash collection and recycling bins are also provided. A day-use picnic area is equipped with multiple tables, picnic shelters, a basketball court, beach, boat ramp and fishing piers.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the 3,227-acre Namekagon Lake that is famous for its fishing potential. It is surrounded by a hardwood and hemlock forest in northwestern Wisconsin.
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
- 34
- Hookups
- 23 electric
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- PIT TOILETS on 1 of 35 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 35 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 1 of 35 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 20th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:35 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$28 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:35 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
35 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 34 mapped sitesAll 35 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. 34 of the 35 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Group | Group Pavilion | day use | 50 ft | $50 | ||||
| NAMEKAGON | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 85 ft | 512 ftTaylor Creek | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 002 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 85 ft | 448 ftTaylor Creek | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 60 ft | 372 ftTaylor Creek | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 004 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 60 ft | 331 ftTaylor Creek | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 005 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 68 ft | 249 ftTaylor Creek | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 006 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 68 ft | 205 ftTaylor Creek | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 93 ft | 302 ftTaylor Creek | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 008 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 198 ft | 104 ft | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 104 ft | 172 ft | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 010 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 104 ft | 208 ft | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 113 ft | 269 ft | $18 | ||
| NAMEKAGON | 012 | standard electric | 35 ft | 15/30/50 amp | yes | 79 ft | 263 ft | $28 |
| NAMEKAGON | 013 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 64 ft | 185 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 014 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 63 ft | 158 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 015 | standard electric | 25 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 63 ft | 219 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 016 | standard electric | 35 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 57 ft | 198 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 017 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 94 ft | 104 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 018 | standard electric | 35 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 57 ft | 197 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 019 | standard electric | 40 ft | 50/30/15 amp | 74 ft | 172 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 020 | standard electric | 35 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 60 ft | 293 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 021 | standard electric | 25 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 349 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 022 | standard electric | 40 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 59 ft | 408 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 023 | standard electric | 35 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 66 ft | 468 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 024 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 106 ft | 535 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 025 | standard electric | 35 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 68 ft | 496 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 026 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 106 ft | 603 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 027 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 95 ft | 491 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 028 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 126 ft | 604 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 029 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 95 ft | 474 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 030 | standard electric | 50 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 85 ft | 526 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 031 | standard electric | 35 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 80 ft | 419 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 032 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 85 ft | 476 ft | $28 | |
| NAMEKAGON | 033 | standard electric | 45 ft | 15/30/50 amp | yes | 80 ft | 378 ft | $28 |
| NAMEKAGON | 034 | standard electric | 50 ft | 15/30/50 amp | 107 ft | 405 ft | $28 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 35 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Two LakesChequamegon National Forest · 6.1 mi
Day LakeChequamegon National Forest · 9.7 miBeaver Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 9.9 mi
Beaver Lake (Chequamegon-Nicolet NF, WI)Chequamegon National Forest · 11 mi
East TwinChequamegon National Forest · 11 miFrom Cable, Wisconsin, take County Highway M east for 11 miles. Turn left on County Highway D and proceed about 6 miles to Forest Service Road 209. Turn left at the campground sign and drive less than a mile to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Grand View, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 53°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 1°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
Namekagon 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 →