Pine Lake Campground (Hiles, WI)
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- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 1312 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pine Lake Campground sits on the western shore of Pine Lake, between the towns of Crandon and Three Lakes. With fewer sites comes less people, but all the same amenities as other National Forest Campgrounds. There are plenty of sites to see and fishing opportunities on area lakes and Pine Lake Campground is an excellent central location. Keep reading
Recreation
Pine Lake is a favorite of anglers who target northern pike, bass, walleye, and panfish which are all found in the 1,667-acre lake. The campground also boasts a full boat landing with two courtesy docks allowing for easy unloading and loading of your fishing or pleasure boat.
Facilities
Pine Lake Campground has 12 campsites which can accommodate trailers 40 feet in length, with most sites being able to accommodate trailers 45+ feet. Drinking water, vault toilets, garbage disposal, boat landing, and a picnic area are also provided.
Natural Features
Sitting among towering Hemlock trees, Pine Lake Campground offers an excellent setting for relaxation or for planning your day fishing the 1,667-acre Pike Lake. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (715) 674-4481.
Nearby Attractions
The Argonne Experimental Forest and Interpretive Trail are located northeast of the campground off of STH 32, with the Headwaters Wilderness "Giant Pine Trail" located slightly further north. The towns of Three Lakes and Crandon are also a short drive and offer many amenities.
What the agency tells you
Pine Lake Campground is located on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northeast Wisconsin.
Use is restricted to hardened campsite area.
Generator use is limited to the hours of 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and only while users are present at the campsite. Unreasonably loud generators which may bother others cannot be used at any time.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Privately owned ATV's, UTV's, and Golf Carts are not allowed to be operated within the campground.
Single occupancy sites are allowed up to 8 persons and one wheeled camping unit, e.g. camper or RV, as well as three additional vehicles or trailers, so long as they are not wheeled camping units.
Firewood must be purchased or collected from no greater than 25 miles of a National Forest destination or collected directly from National Forest land. Firewood from any distance that has been certified by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is allowed.
There are no electric hook-ups at this facility.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 13
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…trailers 45+ feet. Drinking water, vault toilets, garbage disposal, boat landing, and a picnic area…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…able to accommodate trailers 45+ feet. Drinking water, vault toilets, garbage disposal, boat landing, and…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Night sky · 46th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 12 of the 13 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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
13 sites
All 13 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. 13 of the 13 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Pine | Site 01 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $15 |
| Pine | Site 02 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $15 |
| Pine | Site 03 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $15 |
| Pine | Site 04 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Pine | Site 05 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $15 |
| Pine | Site 06 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Pine | Site 07 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $15 |
| Pine | Site 08 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $15 |
| Pine | Site 09 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Pine | Site 10 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Pine | Site 11 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| Pine | Site 12 | standard nonelectric | $15 | |
| S&P Single | type not stated | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Laurel Lake CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 11 miSevenmile Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 13 mi
Luna White Deer CampgroundNicolet National Forest · 14 miLuna - White Deer Lake Recreation AreaNicolet National Forest · 15 miFrom the intersection of Highway 32 and FR2186 just south of Hiles, drive west on FR2186 for 0.5 miles to FR2185. Turn left onto FR2185 and drive 1.3 miles to the campground entrance on the left.
The agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Argonne, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 4°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
Pine Lake Campground (Hiles, 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 →