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Windsor Dam Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WI · 45.92997, -88.86062
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Windsor Dam Campground · Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest · WI
No MVUM road within a quarter mile of the pin; the nearest mapped segment is FR 2521A (Fr 2521A - 2521 Spur A), 0.3 mi away. Access may be a county road or unmapped.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
What the record says about the site — Windsor Dam Campground · Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest · WI
- Room for 8 parties
- Vault toilet
- Drinking water on site
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Windsor Dam Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,664 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Windsor Dam CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Windsor Dam Campground · Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest · WI
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump11 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- GGrocery13 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- HHardware15 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- OOutfitter18 mi
- WWater19 mi
- LLaundry19 mi
- EVEV fast charger25 mi
- ShShower29 mi
- AAir-up39 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 13 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Windsor Dam Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,664 ft
Ground slope
7.1% · gentle
State
WI
Coordinates
45.92997, -88.86062
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Windsor Dam Campground · Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest · WI (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Branch Pine River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Briss Lake (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townAlvin · ~4.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelNorthland Super Service · ~14.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~11.3 mi
- GroceriesKrist · ~14.4 mi
- PharmacyThree Lakes Pharmacy · ~17.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicAspirus Iron River Clinic · ~16.5 mi
- HardwareThree Lakes Hardware · ~17.5 mi
EV charging — from Windsor Dam Campground · Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest · WI — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.9 mi straight-line S — Fireside Market Stone Lake, Crandon, WI (at a public site) · RED_E · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 9 within 50 · 40 within 100 · 102 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)26.9 mi — Crystal Fresh Market and Ace Hardware, Crystal Falls
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO27.8 mi — Crystal Falls MI Public Parking, Crystal Falls
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)31.5 mi — Rhinelander Cadillac · EV Connect · J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Stateline Chevrolet Buick GMC, Iron River, 14.9 mi · J1772 · hours: Dealership business hours; GMC vehicles only · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 451553 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Windsor Dam Campground · Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest · WI — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletHagerman Lake Boat · ~9.0 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomBass Lake · ~9.1 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLake Ottawa Boat · ~11.0 mi NE · USFS
- Flush restroomLake Ottawa Picnic · ~11.2 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Windsor Dam Campground · Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest · WI
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps North Branch Pine River as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 7.1% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Windsor Dam Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Windsor Dam Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Luna White Deer~5.2 mi · fee
- Franklin Lake Campground~6.4 mi · fee
- Stevens Lake~7.1 mi · fee
- Kentuck Lake~7.2 mi · fee
The unit that manages Windsor Dam Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Windsor Dam Campground are set by Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Windsor Dam Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
Agency page
fs.usda.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Windsor Dam Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that tap is running today, and whether any stream or lake here is drinkable — the record covers the supply the site provides, nothing else
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Windsor Dam Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Off-grid communication →All field notes →