Stockfarm Bridge
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 20 mi
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 8All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 2 – October 31Open May 2 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Stockfarm Bridge Campground is located in a red pine forest on the East Fork of the Chippewa River, a candidate wild and scenic river. Keep reading
Recreation
Located on the edge of the elk capital of Wisconsin, the Stockfarm Bridge Campground area has activities for everyone. Miles of off-road vehicle on the Dead Horse Run Off-road Vehicle Trail (ATV/UTV), canoeing, kayaking, and fishing in the scenic East Fork of the Chippewa River or hunting during the fall small and big game hunting seasons.
Facilities
The campground offers 7 single family campsites and one group site accomodating up to 16 people. There is a hand-pump for potable drinking water, accessible vault toilets, fire rings and picnic tables. Trash collection and recycling bins are available at the campground as well.
Natural Features
The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest offers 845,000 acres of lush landscape dotted with lakes, rivers and streams. Pine, spruce, maple, aspen and balsam forests, as well as extensive jack pine plantations, make up the vegetation.
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
- 8 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 8
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…for potable drinking water, accessible vault toilets, fire rings and picnic tables. Trash collection and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…people. There is a hand-pump for potable drinking water, accessible vault toilets, fire rings and picnic…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
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 · 13
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
8 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 8 mapped sitesAll 8 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. 8 of the 8 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| A | 1 | standard nonelectric | yes | 66 ft | 246 ft | $15 |
| A | 2 | standard nonelectric | yes | 101 ft | 150 ft | $15 |
| A | 3 | standard nonelectric | yes | 101 ft | 128 ft | $15 |
| A | 4 | standard nonelectric | yes | 90 ft | 106 ft | $15 |
| A | 5 | standard nonelectric | yes | 90 ft | 152 ft | $15 |
| A | 6 | standard nonelectric | yes | 161 ft | 268 ft | $15 |
| A | 7 | standard nonelectric | yes | 66 ft | 312 ft | $15 |
| A | 8 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 112 ft | 376 ft | $40 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Black LakeChequamegon National Forest · 11 mi
East TwinChequamegon National Forest · 13 mi
Day LakeChequamegon National Forest · 13 mi
Moose LakeChequamegon National Forest · 15 mi
Mineral LakeChequamegon National Forest · 18 mi
Beaver Lake (Chequamegon-Nicolet NF, WI)Chequamegon National Forest · 20 miFrom Loretta, drive north on County Highway GG 10.8 miles to the intersection of FR 164. Turn right (east) and drive 7.8 miles to the campground.
From Glidden, drive south 9.4 miles on Highway 13 to Bear Lake Road (FR 163). Turn right (west) on Bear Lake Road and drive 9 miles to FR 164. Turn right (north) on FR 164 and drive 3 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 Glidden, 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
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
Stockfarm Bridge 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 →