Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit
October 2026
About
Covering more than 22,000 acres of forested glacial hills, kettle lakes and prairies, the Southern Unit of the Kettle Moraine is interlaced with more than 100 miles of mountain biking, horseback riding and hiking and nature trails. Paddling, boating, swimming, fishing, hunting and winter sport opportunities are all available.
There are three family campgrounds (Ottawa Lake, Pinewoods, Whitewater Lake), a horseriders camp, two group camps, and remote backpack shelters on the Ice Age Trail. An accessible cabin for persons with disabilities, several picnic shelters, an outdoor amphitheater and an indoor auditorium are also reservable.
Is Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit fully booked?
A campground showing no availability is almost never full for good. People cancel — plans change, weather turns, someone books three weekends and keeps one — and the site goes straight back into the booking system, usually without warning and often at odd hours. The reason sold-out campgrounds feel impossible is not that sites never free up; it is that nobody is watching at the moment they do.
CampHawk watches Kettle Moraine State Forest - Southern Unit in WI for you. We recheck it every 15 seconds, around the clock, and the moment a site opens we send a text, an email and a push notification, with a link straight to the booking page.
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