Black River State Forest
October 2026
About
Two forks of the Black River flow through this 68,000-acre forest comprised of pine and oak woods under high sandstone abutments. This central Wisconsin forest offers many recreational opportunities, including camping, canoeing, hunting, hiking, skiing and ATV riding.
Three different family campgrounds are found within the forest (Castle Mound, East Fork and Pigeon Creek). Both an outdoor and indoor group camp are available at the East Fork Campground. A reservable shelter is in the picnic area at Castle Mound.
Is Black River State Forest 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 Black River State Forest in Black River Falls, 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.
Searching is free and needs no account — the calendar above is live right now. Watching Black River State Forest for cancellations is the paid part.