Black River State Forest - State park in Black River Falls - W10235 US-12, USA

Loved camping here! We stayed at east fork right next to the river!

Absolutely beautiful place to vacation in the summer time.

We stayed at the east fork campground and found it to be very nice with extremely helpful staff. It's a relatively quiet place to camp as well, and when we went in early August it wasn't overly buggy. Great access to the river and self guided nature hike.

I strongly recommend you DO NOT stay at Pigeon Creek Campground if visiting this park. I booked a weekend at the Pigeon Creek campsite and ended up leaving Saturday morning after such a bad experience. One of the two potable water stations was broken, and the water that came out of the other station was brown, foul smelling, and poor tasting. Unfortunately, because there is no water at the station, I filled my bottles in the dark and did not discover the discoloration until the next morning when I had already drank it. I should have examined it closer when my dog avoided drinking it. I chose to stay at the Pigeon Creek campsite because of the convenient trail connecting the campground to the rest of the hiking trails. Unfortunately, I did not get to see the rest of the state park grounds. The pigeon creek trail was extremely poorly marked, which resulted in me getting lost for nearly an hour. When I finally got back on the correct trail, I continued to have difficulty following the path due to total lack of trail maintenance. It was difficult to distinguish the trail from the rough terrain at various spots. As a experienced hiker, the poor signage, poor trail maintenance, and overwhelming amount of bugs resulted in the worst experience I've ever had while hiking. When I finally got to the end of the Pigeon Creek Trail, where I was looking forward to connecting to the rest of the park trails, the connection was gated off. I understand that sometimes trails need to be closed down, but I am ASTOUNDED that there was no indication at the campground or where the trail began, that it was closed. So, after two hours of an incredibly miserable hike, I had to turn around and do it all again to get back to camp. Lastly, because of such horribly overgrown and unmanaged trails, I pulled 32 ticks off my dog that evening from only one hike and one night at my campsite. The rest of the park may have great trails, but I will not be returning to find out.

Beautiful state park. Availability to camp anywhere allowed me to camp in total peace. Did not see or hear another person all day or night

Great place to hike and drive the fire roads! Camp area’s are clean and quiet. Needed firewood but no one was there and it was locked up!

If you think you can scrabble trails this is the place that will kick your behind the woods scrabble is very very tuff you better be in great shape just for the 8 mile trail it's a Killer!!!!!!

Did not like the hiking trail as it lacked a good view for me after doing a devil's lake trail one day before this trek. Didn't try the ATV trails. They looked fun to explore. The place lacks directions for the places you want to visit. As the internet network isn't great and places are not well marked on the maps, one can easily get lost!