I love this place. their cheese curds are great. the beach is also pretty fun with the floats they have there

Beautiful! Private and secure. Management is . Very helpful!! Family owned and operated. read more

Scenic Ridge Campground - Meditation - Campgrounds Near Me - Whitewater, Wisconsin

We took our 5 and 10 year old grandchildren camping in a rental RV for 5 days. Campsite was in a gorgeous and perfect location. Very friendly atmosphere, recommend renting a golf cart for your stay. You will not be disappointed!!!! read more

My family and I had our annual camp. There was about 30 of us split between multiple campsites and the cabins. I will say this campground is not as advertised. I will say the staff was very friendly! GET A GOLF CART OR YOU ARE SCREWED! The campground is basically built into a mountain, very steep and very long walk. The cabins though they say sleep a number of people they are incredibly small. The beds were either rock hard or too soft to even turn over. Everyone was basically sleeping on top of one another. Pictures are very deceiving. The campsites we have were in the newer "P" section which is the farthest from everything, basically on top of the mountain. It was advertised that there was a bathhouse and dump station right next to our sites which turned out to be 2 port-a-potties. You could smell them from some distance. We were told the they facilities were postponed due to COVID-19. There was a nice bounce pillow and playground near by for the kids. For as large as this campground is they are severely lacking in amenities. To my knowledge there was only one bathhouse. There were 2 nice bathrooms behind the camp store. They had a couple of washers/dryers. There is a microscopic beach that wouldn't fit even a 1/4 of the campground. There is little to no parking by the store/beach. They do have rentals for lake activities and a nice swim area for the kids. I will not be visiting again. read more

We have stayed at Scenic Ridge twice and had nothing but a great experience both times. First time was in one of their cabins. Was just perfect, was clean, comfortable and perfectly decorated. Last weekend, we brought a camper. The area was quiet, clean and everything we needed. Plus plenty of kid friendly activities. So impressed with the staff. They respond quickly by email and by returning phone messages. Their snack/ restaurant had great food and had an inviting atmosphere! We had a maintenance issue and it was fixed within minutes. Plus they have the cutest bulldogs that visit with campers! So impressed and will definitely go back! read more

Scenic Ridge Campground - Charlie the resident camp dog! - Campgrounds Near Me - Whitewater, Wisconsin

This place use to be a.nice place to go camp if you have a full hookup. However, the service to those that are not full seasonal residence is horrible. Let's just say the camper is NEVER right. It doesn't matter how many years you've gone there either. Our last experience was horrible, accused us of driving cart late at night and it was the permanent residence. Quiet time was never an issue sitting by the fire in the past with your music, but by 10 they expect everyone to go to bed. If you don't, you can expect to be threatened to leave. My advise, read all reviews before you head out to this place. I would not recommend and will never go back. read more

Scenic Ridge is our favorite family campground. From Milwaukee it is an easy 45 minute drive. The staff is incredibly friendly and so are all the campers that we have had the pleasure of meeting. Our family goes at least 3 times a season. Our toddler loves the play ground, the beach, and the ice cream treats we can get at the shop. Thank you Scenic Ridge for helping us make memories every summer and having an awesome place to weekend! read more

Stay away from this campground if you don't want your experience ruined. Owners and managers were extremely rude and disrespectful to our group. Our group has camped together for many years and have never been treated so poorly. Will never return to this place. There are so many places I would rather be spending my money and time at. read more

Not recommended at all! Something has changed drastically with how the staff treats their non-seasonal guests. Serious unfounded and incorrect accusations toward our group when the culprits were seasonal campers. Worst camping experience ever! read more

Worst experience we have ever had at a campsite. We have been camping for over 10 years and have been to numerous sites across the state of Wisconsin and this by far was the worst. They need to learn how to treat their customers with more respect and let them enjoy the time there. Will never go back. read more

Very poor customer experience that ruined the entire camping weekend. We would not recommend this campsite, terrible experience.

I"m just writing this because i get all the campsite I go to confused. This is the campsite that is outside whitewater stayed at because was close to alpine valley. Was a hundred for two nights with water and electric. The campsite was really big had room away from neighbors. The site was nice had trees and some shade. To get to site you do have to drive back a ways. The campsite is pretty spread out. Not a bar but a snack shop Never had anyone bother us at our site which was nice. Did hear some early morning cutting or sawing at like 8 Porter potty was close to daily rentals for a actual bathroom was a little bit of a walk. There were a bunch of chip monks there that would come and get acorns of site. read more

Campground rental sites Major fail: not having full hook ups is the biggest flaw. Muddy: patches of grass everywhere, so it makes it very messy when it rains Spaces: nice sizes, so you don't feel squished next to other RVs. The shop is cute. Some stuff is decently priced, but for essentials, come prepared or pay a lot. It is family friendly for the most part. Just overall we have been to much nicer places for cheaper. Not the biggest fan. read more

This was the worst campground experience I have ever had. Unlike the previous reviewer, my experience was the complete opposite though. They do in fact enforce the $200 deposit if they think you are being too loud after 10pm. Apparently there is a house that is nearby the campsite & the owners just shelled out $150K to keep the place open because of a lawsuit over the noise. Thus, they are looking for any reason to take your deposit. They might as well have just closed the place if they're going to be Nazi's about the noise because they are going to lose a ton of business running their campsite like this. The owners of Scenic Ridge are extremely rude & horrible to deal with. Terrible customer service, do not waste your money. We had a much more pleasant experience at the Hebron campsite, I highly recommend! read more

This campground is really nice. The lake view was beautiful the beach was clean . The breakfast was great we ate outside on the patio . Excellent fishing we caught blue gill and bass . Awesome camping. Bathrooms and showers everywhere and very clean . If you need something the store on the campground has it . I think it's cool they let you rent golfing carts to get around . We made friends and want to come back to rent a RV camper . Manny and al are great people thanks guys see you soon ! read more

This was our first family camping trip so I really don't have anything else to compare it to. But I would say we all had a great time and the staff was fantastic. I do wish the showers were closer to the tent site. We never had a wait to use the showers or the port a pottys. read more

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My son is 14 !! He hates everything but he does love going to this place.(I have never been there he goes with my stepdad) but he tells me the lake is awesome ! They have a little store he likes and cabins are available to rent read more

To start off, we are 2 working adults, no kids, no pets, RV campers. We are staying here as it's one of the closest locations to Alpine Valley Music Theater, staying for the week so we could work from our camper and not have to travel and hook up day of show(s). If you're here just for recreation, this may not be helpful since we aren't going to use the lake or the playground/inflatables and probably won't hike since it's going to rain most of the week. If you're looking for camp wifi, forget it. There is free wifi which is fairly decent at the Camp Store but even a long range antenna won't pick it up from the daily sites. There are a few tables and chairs set up outside and a snack bar with seats inside so in theory you could work here if you don't mind a lot of foot traffic. We have a data card/hotspot as a backup but signal is very weak so forget about doing any consistent video streaming unless you've got a booster. Other amenities: There are 2 older coin-op washer and dryers which seem to work ok though the first try on the washer ate my 6 quarters. Camp store wasn't open so I couldn't ask for a refund right away. The washer/dryer is tucked in a hallway between the restrooms so not a whole lot of room to work but manageable. There's no sewer hookups for daily rentals and the bath facilities are lacking (see other reviews). If you have a portable tank, you'll probably want to use it. On the bright side, the price is decent, the size of our RV pull through space was decent and drives to nearby towns weren't awful. The staff was super nice (when the camp store was even open) especially since we got in later than expected and made them stay late to get us registered. Be sure to get your space number before you get there. There is no RV parking near the camp store (and only a few car/golf cart spots) so you will need to pull right in to your space then go back down to register. read more

Cannot recommend. The lake is beautiful but the only time you can relax by it is early morning. Not enough parking, hard to get into the camp store lot during busy times. Coin laundry doesn't work. WiFi only available at the store. Way too busy, not calming enough at most sites. I camped here from 2014-2017 and have found that other campgrounds offer much more. Pros: Whitewater lake, good group of seasonal campers. Cons: extremely busy and loud. They don't do criminal background checks for their seasonals. read more

Honestly, I di d not read any of these reviews before our stay this past weekend. We originally made reservations for Scenic Ridge back in May but had to keep pushing it back due to weather and other life events. They were always super quick to return my call and/or email and never charged me extra for changing my reservation dates. We arrived in the dark Friday night which is never ideal but it was easy to find our site and the guy at the check-in counter was nice. They do have some very steep hills to get to the daily campsite area but I didn't think it was a big deal - we have a small vintage camper. There are a TON of permanent sites here, and they're all very close together. I'm not familiar with the costs associated with those types of sites but I guarantee I wouldn't pay much to stay here. A good chunk of the permanent sites were run down eye-sores but most of them had packed up for the season so everything looks like crap wrapped in a giant blue tarp. We were located in the very back where we did have some shade and lovely trees. The other daily site area was not shaded at all and is very close to the playground - definitely not for us. We noticed that there were a lot of kids and dogs in this campground but rarely heard either of them. There did seem to be a lot of golf cart traffic, even for how deserted the campground was in mid October. The bathrooms were an issue for me. There were porta-potties in a couple different areas but we had to walk a ways and they were disgusting. I chose to squat the whole weekend, if that tells you anything. The bathhouse seemed decent but it was really small so my guess is it gets busy and gross when the campground is full. The beach was super small and you do have to cross a public road - not that I saw a lot of traffic but I'm sure it's MUCH busier in the "normal season". We stopped in their general store Saturday afternoon but it was pretty minimal - probably because it's the end of the season. The guy was able to point us to a gas station near by that had what we were looking for. Overall friendly staff, for the few that I saw. Apparently there's a security guard there (they hand you his business card upon check-in) but I didn't see him. Based upon what we saw and the other reviews we probably won't be back. There are a lot of other campgrounds in the area. I do want to add that they had a really nice hiking trail and that was appreciated! read more

This is an okay campground depending on what you are looking for. The road is recently paved but the drive up it is quite winding and a tight fit. Almost an entirely seasonal campground with only a few daily campsites. There are no hookups, just water/electric, but nice grassy areas and good firepits with picnic tables. There is a good playground area for kids but you have to pay extra for wristbands to use the inflatables. If you are looking for peace and quiet or a family friendly atmosphere, this is NOT the place for you. There are many rude guests who play very loud music and party late into the night. There is also a lot of traffic noise with people constantly driving by in golf carts, belching beer drinkers, and yelling children. Its not bad in a hard-sided trailer. Pay no attention to the rules: they are NOT ENFORCED, particularly the quiet times. However, if you want to hike some of the amazing trails and enjoy a beautiful lake with a convenient place to stop for a few nights, this is not a bad pick. Our family did just that over a weekend, eating ice cream cones from the little camp snack shack and walking around the lake. We had a great time hiking and have our own bathroom facilities, so this place worked well for us. read more

This is the worst campground I have ever visited in my many years of camping around the country. I have had a better camping experience while camping in the middle of a national forest without any running water, electricity or bath facilities. The bathrooms are disgusting, never cleaned and the hot water runs out while showering. In order to get to the tent sites, you first must go through the GHETTO that is the "Condo Campers", an area that you envision as the end of the world, a complete turnoff and a disgrace to campgrounds around the world. Many Condo Campers are in bad disrepair, unkept and filthy. The campground charges you a $100-$200 Deposit which they do not tell you about until you sign-in to your site and they claim it is to keep the campers noise levels to a minimum, but they do not patrol the campground looking for sites being loud after hours, as we were kept awake all night by one site a few sites down from ours. And when I complained to the management upon our exit, they said we should have flagged down the security officer patrolling that night - well the problem with that is we were in our tent trying to get to sleep and weren't out looking for a security guard that apparently never drove by our area. So why charge a $100-$200 Noise Deposit if they are not going to manage the noise levels. You would NEVER recommend this campground to anyone, let alone my worst enemy. DO NOT GO HERE - YOU WILL REGRET IT!!!! Tent Camping - Memorial Day Weekend 2011 read more

We have been to many campsites and this one was by far the worst. We will certainly not be back. The website and brochure were very deceiving. The beach area was very small. Not alot of parking for your vehicle, (because you have to drive down there unless you are going to rent a golf cart for $110), the walk is way to far and steep. If you do want to swim in the lake or use the floating/ jumping toys you have to pay $10 per person. Showers were very sketchy. The pump out station was very inconvenient. It's on a dead end road so you have to back up off of the main, busy road to get to it. I wish I had looked on yelp first and read previous comments. Could have saved us the trip. read more

When was the last time that you found a place that was so laid back and relaxing that you thought you were just dreaming ?? A place that was so tranquil and peaceful that your high blood pressure dropped to normal----a place where everyone treated you like family??? The place is Scenic Ridge Campground!!! and Mickey and her husband Tom are your hosts!!! Two of the nicest people you ever want to meet!! they will make sure that your stay is the best!!! I just spent the best week of my life (all 66 years) with my grandchildren and significant other at Scenic Ridge!!! And what a stay---from fishing and swimming--to pontoon rentals--to Smores on the campfire----The BEST VACATION---EVER!!!!!! I did not want to leave!!! So I did the next best thing---I booked for next year!!!!! Forget your alarm clock---forget your phone--forget your problems!!! Scenic Ridge is the place to do this!!! Like they say" There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't met!!!!! THANKS Mickey and Tom!!!! read more

This campground is very cheap to stay at and the staff is nice if you go into office. Beyond that I would not stay or suggest anyone else to stay here. It is super loud all night long! The after 10 quiet time is a joke. ALL bathrooms and shower houses are nasty! The streets are too small to drive on, very windy and hilly and not lit after dark at all. The beach is really small and the water is disgusting. Think twice before booking! read more

Snack shop has ridiculously high prices, loud campgrounds, way too much golf cart traffic to be remotely peaceful. They allow their friends to put up retaining walls, have screen rooms and various other things they will deny you to do if you aren't a part of their "clique". They charge the tiniest cramped site in a busy street the same rate as those with huge secluded sites. The secluded sites never become available (again, unless you're related or their friend) so you're stuck with a sub-par site at the same rates. If you plan to come to kiss-butt, have at it. If you're looking for a quiet peaceful getaway with a good value - do yourself a favor and keep looking! read more

OK first of all, all I can say is WOW to the review by T.S .....where to even begin, but my biggest question would be, "you almost ran over how many kids?!" And second of all, ITS A CAMPGROUND, not the paved lot of the HILTON INN and RESORT Hotel. It is located in the woods where you just might find a road that was paved a long time ago...... the speed limit is like 5 mph, not 55... How dare teenagers (and adults alike) enjoy camping by "screaming "(screaming, really?? ) on their golf carts!! How dare they!! AND HOW DARE THEY HAVE BIG HILLS THAT YOU HAVE TO GO UP AND DOWN TO GET TO THE LAKE!!! But now seriously, I can tell you, because we have camped there for the last three years and always can't wait until we can camp there again, WHY IT IS A FUN PLACE TO CAMP! But wait, next time you want to go camping please ask for a shaded sight, ask to be near or far away from things you like or don't like and ask how big the beach is and where it is located, NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, IS IT? No, it isn't. not all all. But I digress...back to the facts: It is a fun place to camp because everyone there is very friendly and helpful. The people who have seasonal sites have ALWAYS been friendly and they enjoy "weekenders"! The beach area is the amply sized AND YES THERE WILL BE A LOT OF CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS IN THE WATER AND ON THE SAND......IT IS A BEACH! The street between the parking in front of the camp store and the beach is narrow and all nearby residents and camper and those on golf carts are very aware of THE RIGHT OF WAY FOR PEDESTRIANS. ***IF YOU HAVE KIDS, THE ACTIVITIES THERE ARE AMAZING!! CHECK OUT THEIR SPECIAL WEEKEND ACTIVITIES FOR THE SEASON ON THEIR WEBSITE! This is our 3rd year we have been going up there to camp and it is our absolute favorite campground in Wisconsin!!!! SO THERE, NOW YA KNOW THE FACTS! read more

I would highly recommend Scenic Ridge Camp Ground if you appreciate these things in your camping experience: - An open campground with little shade. - Loud parties with a wide variety of loud music that lasts all day long throughout the camping area that last well into the night, well past the so-called 'quiet time' of 10 PM. (Don't worry about the part of their website that says it's highly enforced, it was not. Parties were still going on at midnight and beyond.) - The sound of traffic passing your campsite every 10 seconds or so. A mixture of cars and camper units (Understandable) and golf carts that are rented out or owned by permanent camp site owners. The kids love to drive around the camp ground just for fun, yelling and screaming and talking loudly. - Spartan bath areas that are marginally clean. - A long uphill drive to the daily camping area on a third world level road that may have been nicely paved at one time. (You don't really need the dishes in your RV cabinets, do you?) - A cramped very small beach (3 feet deep) right next to the road so your children can run out into the road on a two lane state road. (Depend on the drivers to be careful.) - Staff that does not know where things are in the campground ("I know we have an RV dumpsite, well I think we do, but I don't know where it is." - A real quote from a staff person) - An RV dump station that gives you a chance to test out your ability to back up into traffic. When I think of camping, in my mind and my desire for the experience is peace and quiet. A quiet time that is enforced evenly. A campground that is not bustling with traffic and noise. (That's a city experience.) A place that is clean, where the restrooms are at least nice. A beach that is actually a beach with more than a couple of feet of sand and does not have a road behind it. I can't count how many children I almost hit because their parents did not control them or teach them to stay out of the road. It was our first experience of having a hard sided camper and we were so happy we had it. We could and did retreat to it for some quiet time. If we had been in our pop-up, which is what had last year, I think we would have forfeited the second night, maybe even our first. On one our trips up the massive hill to the daily campsite area (The hill part is fine, but the road needs work. Lots of areas where the blacktop is gone and massive potholes and missing pavement) we watched a tall bus style RV swing at least 2 feet at the top. I hope everything was secure! When we figured out where the dump station was, I was was amazed that it was built on a dead end spur. I had never seen that before. Even the state parks have a pull through set up. My wife had to stop traffic on the major road that the only way into the upper part of the grounds so I could back up onto it. 6 vehicles in each direction were waiting. The slogan for Scenic Ridge is "A Place Like No Other, Where Today's Moments Become Tomorrows Memories". I hope it is a place like no other. Memories, sure.. bad memories.. We will not be back. Stay away from this place, save your money.. unless you like your campground like I wrote about in the first place. read more

We have 3 families that camp every Memorial weekend. This year we decided to stay close to home (within an hour) so we choose Scenic Ridge. We had a wonderful time and really enjoyed ourselves. The sites were huge and the activities were great. We had no problem with noise; we did not have to pay a noise deposit and really enjoyed the campground. The owners were great to talk to and helped every way possible. We enjoyed the campground so much that we have booked for September, October 2013 and Memorial Day weekend 2014. read more

The Worst Camping Experience I have ever had. We were at this campground for a Jimmy Buffett concert. I have respect for people that are trying to sleep especially if it's late but majority of the people there were just trying to have a few beers and have some fun with friends, possibly even meet new people. When it was 10:00 at night and we just arrived and were setting up our tents and security is already "ssshhh" ing us and asking us "when are you turning off our lights" I knew there was a problem. Well we will turn off our lights when our tents are set up? Common sense right? We were also on a corner lot and security felt the need to CONSTANTLY come over and "talk" to us. I'm sorry but I'm there to be with my friends and talk with them, not talk to Security about the problems there having with there campground. As the night proceeded, our neighbors got in trouble and were kicked out by morning for being "to loud" when I could barley hear them and there were right next to us. But, the best part of our camping trip was when we were all snuggled in our tents (FYI there was 4 people and 3 tents on our site. 2 people in One tent and the other two had there own tents) We were quietly listening to the radio falling asleep when, of course Security came over and asked my friend to turn the radio off. Now at this point, my friend was sleeping. They asked one more time, he didn't answer. So they proceeded to GO IN HIS TENT and ask again to turn his radio off. So not only was the Security rude and invasive outside the tent but THEY CAME INSIDE THE TENT!!!!! I don't know when it become OK to do this but I felt like I was in a 5th Grade Outdoor Ed Retreat. They treated us like a children and completely ruined our camping part of the trip. We could not drive fast enough out of there. I would not recommend staying here no matter what the occasion is. And I didn't even mention the $200 hold they put on your credit card for a week after they already charged $20 a person per night. There nice to get you in and once your there it's almost like they want you to get kicked out so they can make even more money off you. Bottom Line, this was a terrible experience and I will tell all my friends about the BAD experience I had here. read more

the campgrounds for the tents are right in the sun and the ones for rvs are under trees and there are 2 bathrooms for the whole campground so we had to drive to go to the bathroom but the lake was fun. it was an okay place. read more