We spent three nights at the Highland Ridge Army Corp. Campground near Spring Valley, WI earlier this week, and enjoyed our time there.
The campground has nice heavily wooded separation between sites, and has a couple of loops with a centrally located shower/bathroom facility, with a playground, and interpretive center building at the same location. It also has an equestrian area (for those with 560's
) Lake Eau Galle is created by the dam the Army Corp maintains nearby, but because of the heavily wooded area between the sites and the lake, it is not visible for the most part.
There is a beach with a roped off swimming area, but it is not at the campground, but across the lake, so requires a drive to get there, and a permit from the camp host to use the area without paying it's normal separate fee for non-campers.
We did a little hiking on the limited trails around the campground, and a little biking on the loops, and the connecting roads. We spent time visiting with my sisters family, who were also there for their first time with two of their grandkids. They did go to the swimming area, and enjoyed it, but the water was still fairly cold evidenced the kids blue lips when they returned.
Crystal Cave is nearby, so we all went there one morning, and while we enjoyed the hour long tour of the cave, I had been expecting something on the order of Carlsbad, or some of the other caves of note in the southwest. Here the stalagmites, and stalactites were 1- 1.5 inches long and a 1/4 - 3/8 inch in diameter. More impressive were the honeycomb rock formations, and rooms carved out by the water flow over the centuries of these relatively young caves.
All in all I would say this would be a nice place to just setup camp along your journey, to enjoy the quiet peaceful sites it has to offer, as opposed to a destination for a lot of recreational opportunities.
The pic below can give you an idea of how heavily wooded it is.
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The campground has nice heavily wooded separation between sites, and has a couple of loops with a centrally located shower/bathroom facility, with a playground, and interpretive center building at the same location. It also has an equestrian area (for those with 560's
) Lake Eau Galle is created by the dam the Army Corp maintains nearby, but because of the heavily wooded area between the sites and the lake, it is not visible for the most part.There is a beach with a roped off swimming area, but it is not at the campground, but across the lake, so requires a drive to get there, and a permit from the camp host to use the area without paying it's normal separate fee for non-campers.
We did a little hiking on the limited trails around the campground, and a little biking on the loops, and the connecting roads. We spent time visiting with my sisters family, who were also there for their first time with two of their grandkids. They did go to the swimming area, and enjoyed it, but the water was still fairly cold evidenced the kids blue lips when they returned.
Crystal Cave is nearby, so we all went there one morning, and while we enjoyed the hour long tour of the cave, I had been expecting something on the order of Carlsbad, or some of the other caves of note in the southwest. Here the stalagmites, and stalactites were 1- 1.5 inches long and a 1/4 - 3/8 inch in diameter. More impressive were the honeycomb rock formations, and rooms carved out by the water flow over the centuries of these relatively young caves.
All in all I would say this would be a nice place to just setup camp along your journey, to enjoy the quiet peaceful sites it has to offer, as opposed to a destination for a lot of recreational opportunities.
The pic below can give you an idea of how heavily wooded it is.
View attachment upload_2023-6-16_18-41-26.png
--- only 56. I can only qualify for moving into age-restricted trailer parks 
