On the northwest shore of Lake Winnebago 14 miles from Oshkosh, High Cliff State Park provides 112 campsites with electrical hookups available at some sites. You can enjoy amenities such as a picnic table and grill at your camp, flush toilets and showers. Trails lead along the limestone cliffs where you can watch the sunset and down to the water where you can camp on your boat at a boat slip or swim along the sandy beach. You'll find similar amenities at Hartman Creek State Park 48 miles northwest of Oshkosh along the Chain O' Lakes. Vehicle admission stickers are required in addition to your campground fee, and you'll need a state trail pass to access bridle and mountain biking trails that wind through the parks. Campsites can be reserved during summer months and are open year round as long as snow does not block access to the campground.
Thirty miles southeast of Oshkosh, the northern unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest has a couple of campgrounds where you can enjoy forested camping near a sparkling blue lake. Both Mauthe Lake and Long Lake campgrounds have flush toilets and showers available to campers and a variety of sites suitable for tents and RVs. Electrical hookups are provided to a small number of sites at Long Lake Campground, and roughly a third of the 135 Mauthe sites are electrical. New Prospect Horseriders' Campground has vault toilets, as well as hitching posts at each of the 22 sites and box stalls available on a first-come, first-served basis.
On the eastern side of Lake Winnebago, Calumet County Park hosts 70 sites with and without electrical hookups suitable for tents and most RVs. Hot showers, flush restrooms and a dump station round out the park's conveniences, and you can strike off into the hills to hike to American Indian ceremonial mounds, ride your ATV or snowmobile, hike or cross-country ski. You can boat or ice fish on the lake, depending upon the season, and camping is available year round. On the north end of Oshkosh, primitive campsites for self-contained RVs are available at Winnebago County Park's Sunnyview Expo Center Campground from May through October. Dogs, horses and bicycles are welcome in the campground, and firewood can be purchased on-site.
Private campgrounds can afford you additional amenities or give you access to secluded stretches of shoreline along lakes and rivers. Eureka Dam Campsites, 18 miles up the Fox River from Oshkosh, is open from March through October with water and electrical hookups for RVs and tent sites near the water. The campground boasts 2,500 feet of shoreline along the Fox River. A boat launch, boat rental, dump station and fish cleaning station is provided. Near Fremont, Yogi Bear's Jellystone Camp Resort provides frontage along the Wolf River and Partridge Lake 23 miles northwest of Oshkosh. The resort has more than 300 sites ranging from rustic to full hookups, with on-site laundry, restrooms and showers. Summer amenities include a water park with slide, boat launch and rentals, two heated pools and swimming access at the lake.
