## Overview

 Highland Ridge overlooks the sparkling Eau Galle Reservoir located in Spring Valley, in western Wisconsin. The area boasts 648 acres of scenery with numerous opportunities for recreation, including fishing, canoeing and plenty of hiking. Horseback riders enjoy the trails around the lush region. 
## Recreation

 Hikers can enjoy the 7 miles worth of trails, along with overlook seating areas and a swimming beach. Horseback riders have a variety of trails to choose from. Fishermen cast their reels year-round. Kayaking, canoeing, and electric-motor boating are common.
## Facilities

 Highland Ridge has fourty-six campsites (thirty-five with electric) including eight walk-in tent sites. Showers, trash/recycle stations, an interpretive building, water fill stations, dump station, and a playground are all available for campers. During the summer, weekly interpretive programs are presented on Saturday evenings by the Park Rangers. Highland Ridge; Equestrian Loop has ten electric campsites. Manure pits, hitching posts, vault toilets, water fill stations, dump station, and garbage/recycling stations are available for campers. 
## Natural Features

 The 35-mile Eau Galle River feeds into 150 acre Eau Galle Lake, which is surrounded by steep hills and bluffs. The campground is opposite the dam on the north side of the small reservoir. The area is set in a heavily wooded area that provides a welcoming habitat for native plants and animals. 
## Nearby Attractions

 Highland Ridge is minutes from Spring Valley Golf Course, Crystal Cave, Cady Cheese Factory, Red Cedar Bike Trial, Vino in the Valley, Nugget Lake, Wakanda Water Park, Maple Leaf Orchard and Goven\'s Farm. 
## contact\_info

 This location has limited staffing. Please call (715) 778-5562 for general information.

Highland Ridge

**First thing you need to know**: It's completely in the woods, and sites are FULLY shaded. Sites 28-38 are on a loop with a picnic pavilion in the middle with some openings for sun on the road and in the picnic area. Other than that, the rest of the campground is rather dark all the time; there aren't as many sunlight openings on the road to the other sites. This is not a good place for solar panels, but almost all sites are electric.

**Nice price**: Cost is $20/$16 for electric/non-electric. This is an Army Corps of Engineers park which means you pay $10/$8 if you have an NPS Lifetime Senior Pass.

**Services**: There are full services at this campground - flush toilets, sinks, showers, trash receptacles, and drinking water/dump station near the entrance. There is an interpretive center for Saturday evening ranger programs and a playground next to it.

**Roomy sites**: This campground is small, but almost all sites are large. There are 38 sites plus walk in tent sites A through G and a group site. It looks like sites 28-38 can be rented for a group; the entrance was blocked off when we were there.

**Equestrian section may be open to campers without a horse**: There is an equestrian campground about a half mile before the main campground entrance. You may camp in the equestrian area (E1-E10) without a horse if the main area is full. We were able to reserve a site in there a couple days ahead of time because the main campground was full. It was just us and one other family on a Saturday night, and neither of us had a horse. We moved to the main area on Sunday morning because lots of sites were open on Sunday.

Nice campground but be prepared for shade...all the time

Came here without a reservation while driving cross country.  It is only a few miles from the highway but is a beautiful and quiet, natural environment with lots of trees.  We got here around 6pm on a Thursday evening and there were lots of available sites.  It was a little confusing to begin with, because every single site has a sign that says “reserved,” and the hosts were off-duty.  We drove around and found a relatively level site with a very long driveway, then went online to recreation.gov to check it’s availability and reserved/paid for it.  We have AT&amp;T and had no problem getting signal and cellular data to complete the process.  We accidentally selected a site without electric, but if we had taken more time to use the website and enter search criteria, we could have found one with electric.  The site itself was very nice, and we only had to level front-to-back.  There were mosquitos, but with a little repellant it wasn’t too bad.  We were close to a restroom but didn’t use it and can’t speak to the cleanliness or whether there were showers.  There is a little dump station near the entrance where we got potable water and will dump on the way out.  Someone had firewood for sale in front of their house as you drive toward the park, there is no firewood for sale at the campground when we were there.  Overall, this was a great stop for a short overnight, for only $20 and absolute quiet for a good night’s sleep.  

Easy access from highway, good stop for quick overnight

Out of about 20 campgrounds we've stayed at this year so far, this was one of our favorites. There is a lot of space between sites, there are a lot of trees, it's very quiet at night, and there are trails from the campground. The camp host was very friendly and helpful. There is a dump station on the way in to fill up with water as there are no water or sewer hookups. We had one bar of service with Verizon and 3 bars with AT&amp;T. Further up the loop the Verizon signal was much better.

Really nice campground

We were just passing through and had a difficult time finding somewhere to stay since it’s early April. This site was easily accessed off the highway and incredibly convenient to reserve online! $20 for a non-electric site got you a quiet, private site, perfect for a good night’s sleep on the road. Would stop here again due to convenience and comfortability!

Easy to get to and quiet!

Fairly level, clean, wooded sites.  Clean showers. Friendly Hosts and Rangers. 
Great trails. 

Great experience 

This is a beautiful, densely wooded campground with fairly well spaced sites. Some sites on the short loop (28-38) are a bit smaller and slope down from the road, so be careful of the site’s size when booking. Our 29’ trailer would have been a challenging fit in some of those sites. 
Make sure to enter “Highland Ridge Campground” into your GPS instead of “Eau Galle Rec Area. (That’s the day use area of the park that’s about a 20 minute drive around the lake from the campground) AT&amp;T service is spotty throughout the park with either 1 or 2 bars. 
The campground is well maintained and the bathrooms are clean, and only an hour from our home in the northern suburbs. Will definitely be back!

Nice getaway close to the Twin Cities


Highland Ridge, WI - COE east of Minneapolis. 
(Scale 1- bad, 5-Very good
(70 yr olds in 17’ trailer)
Overall Rating:  4.5
Price 2023:  $12/ night w senior pass
Usage during visit:  60 - 70% during weekdays
Site Privacy:  GOOD - not a fence forest, but tremendous spacing makes up for it.  
Site Spacing: VERY GOOD 
Site surface:    Gravel and level
Reservations:     Yes.  Can reserve on line at the cg 
Campground Noise:    None
Road Noise:    None
Through Traffic in campground:  None
Electric Hookup:    Yes
Sewer Hookup:    No
Dump Station:     Yes
Potable Water Available: Yes, at the bathrooms. 
Generators:  Not needed. 
Bathroom:  kept VERY clean.  Shutdown for cleaning  every morning at about 6 AM. 
Showers:     Yes.   Clean
Pull Throughs:   I think all are back ins. 
Cell Service (AT&amp;T): Good 
Setting:  Forest with no understory 
Weather:  80s 
Bugs:   Not too bad.  
Solar:    Forest canopy would interfere , but not needed. 
Host:  Yes. They are around and offer free beach passes.  They are super. 
Rig size:   Large RVs. 
Sites:   All sites are very nice in loop 1 -24.  I understand that Loop 28+ is less private.