Two Lakes
5Heads up5 fires, nearest 24 mi
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 94All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 2 – October 31Open May 2 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Two Lakes Campground is nestled between Lake Owen and Bass Lake. Campsites are spacious and shaded by pine and mixed hardwoods, and most sites offer sweeping lake views. Keep reading
Recreation
Campers have access to two swimming beaches, two boat ramps and a fishing pier. Lake Owen and Bass Lake contain panfish, northern pike, walleye, bass and trout. Lake activities include power boating, sailing, water skiing, canoeing and kayaking. There is a half-mile interpretive trail, as well as access to the North Country National Scenic Trail.
Facilities
The campground has drinking water, vault toilets and a dump station for RVs. Each site has a picnic table, fire ring and grill.
Natural Features
Two Lakes is adjacent to the Porcupine Lake Wilderness in Chequamegon National Forest. The forest covers more than 1.5 million acres of Wisconsin's Northwoods. Some of the Porcupine Lake Wilderness contains rolling hills covered with oak, maple, hemlock and white pine. The remainder of the area is fairly flat. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (715) 373-2667.
Nearby Attractions
The town of Drummond, Wisconsin, is less than 10 miles away for getting supplies, dining out or visiting the historical museum.
What the agency tells you
First-come, first-served sites may be available
Aquatic Invasive Species decontamination is required by Bayfield County ordinance when you land your boat at the Two Lakes Campground or North Outlet landing on Lake Owen. The campground has a sanitizing station with a mild bleach solution to kill AIS and the North Outlet Landing has a hot water washing system. Either may be used prior to entering the lake.
Maximum vehicle size is 50 feet Maximum of 8 people and 4 vehicles at each camp site. Vehicle capacity limit includes vehicles, wheeled camping units and trailers.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests. Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
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.
Click here for more information about Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 94
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 203 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…The campground has drinking water, vault toilets and a dump station for RVs. Each site has a picnic…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Trail. Facilities The campground has drinking water, vault toilets and a dump station for RVs. Each…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 14th darkest of 70 in WI
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:24 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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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 16:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
94 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 36 mapped sitesAll 94 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. 94 of the 94 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| TWO LAKES | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 002 | standard nonelectric | 84 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 003 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 004 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 008 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 009 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 011 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 013 | standard nonelectric | 203 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 015 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 016 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 017 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 018 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 019 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 99 ft | 185 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 020 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 99 ft | 219 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 021 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 126 ft | 260 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 022 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 109 ft | 331 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 023 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 109 ft | 375 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 024 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 025 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 113 ft | 309 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 026 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 111 ft | 377 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 027 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 028 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 111 ft | 465 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 029 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 030 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 031 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 032 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 79 ft | 371 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 033 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 79 ft | 297 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 034 | standard nonelectric | 118 ft | 208 ftLake Owen | $25 | |
| TWO LAKES | 035 | standard nonelectric | 118 ft | 178 ftLake Owen | $25 | |
| TWO LAKES | 036 | standard nonelectric | 118 ft | 191 ftLake Owen | $25 | |
| TWO LAKES | 037 | standard nonelectric | $25 | |||
| TWO LAKES | 038 | standard nonelectric | $25 | |||
| TWO LAKES | 039 | standard nonelectric | $25 | |||
| TWO LAKES | 040 | standard nonelectric | $25 | |||
| TWO LAKES | 041 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 103 ft | 238 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 042 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 99 ft | 274 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 043 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 105 ft | 160 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 044 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 110 ft | 132 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 045 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 99 ft | 228 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 046 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 108 ft | 173 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 047 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 108 ft | 267 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 048 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 78 ft | 376 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 049 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 78 ft | 433 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 050 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 131 ft | 494 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 051 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 127 ft | 386 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 052 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 131 ft | 530 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 053 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 127 ft | 401 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 054 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 133 ft | 512 ftLake Owen | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 055 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 056 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 425 ft | 280 ft | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 057 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 058 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 059 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 060 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 061 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 234 ft | 129 ft | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 062 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 063 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 064 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 104 ft | 113 ft | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 065 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 104 ft | 108 ft | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 066 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 067 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 068 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 069 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 070 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 071 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 072 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 073 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 074 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 075 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 168 ft | 47 ft | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 076 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 96 ft | 179 ft | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 077 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 96 ft | 175 ft | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 078 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 107 ft | 64 ft | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 079 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 107 ft | 81 ft | $25 |
| TWO LAKES | 080 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 081 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 082 | standard nonelectric | 170 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 083 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 084 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 085 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 086 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 087 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 088 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 089 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 090 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 091 | standard nonelectric | 8 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 092 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 093 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $25 | ||
| TWO LAKES | 094 | standard nonelectric | 10 ft | $25 |
25 of 94 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
NamekagonChequamegon National Forest · 6.1 miNamekagon Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 6.2 miPerch Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 8.6 miBeaver Lake Recreation AreaChequamegon National Forest · 14 mi
Beaver Lake (Chequamegon-Nicolet NF, WI)Chequamegon National Forest · 15 mi
Day LakeChequamegon National Forest · 16 miFrom Drummond follow Forest Road 213 southeast to the intersection of Forest Road 213 and 216. Veer left (east) and continue on Forest Road 213 for 2 miles. Veer right (south) onto Forest Road 214 and travel 0.5 mile 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 Drummond, WI
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 53°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 35°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
Two Lakes 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 →