Mirror lake feels like taking a little step back into time.  Ishnala supper club is basically in the state park, and having an Old Fashioned cocktail there is quite possibly one of my top Wisconsin experiences. 

This park is kind of the hidden gem of the Wisconsin Dells area. If you are looking for loud levels of activity, you hit up a water park or magic show. If you want some nature, you do the Dells or Devil’s Lake state park (which I’m informed is a party campground). With all of this going on it is quite easy to overlook Mirror Lake, even though it is only a hop skip and a jump away from the retro Denny’s. 

We stayed at this park so that we could have a pandemic-style meetup with my in-laws. I chose site 204 because it looked enormous (it is) and it has a good sized parking lot. If you are camping with another family this is a good site to get, since 203 is connected by a trail. The sites don’t have a lot of visual privacy between them, but you are far enough away that the people staying there weren’t even really on my radar. 

There are A LOT of campsites at this park (I believe 110 total) .There were very few that I would designate as a“bad” campsite, there is just a lot of variety. A fair amount of them were directly off of the main park road and looked nice, you just have to be willing to deal with more car traffic. We stayed in the Sandstone Ridge loop, and some of the sites had more elevation gain than others. The bathrooms are open during the pandemic, they look on the older side. Firewood was $6 a bundle at the time of our stay. 

Important thing to note: you are so so close to the freeway. I wasn't aware of the freeway noise during the day, but once I went to bed it was all I could hear- so bring better earplugs than I did!