Photo By Scott Sturkol | The campground office is shown Sept. 30, 2021, at Pine View Campground at Fort McCoy,...... read more read more
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Most of Fort McCoy’s Pine View Campground will close Dec. 1 for the winter and won’t reopen again until May 1, 2022, said officials with the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (DFMWR).
DFMWR’s Business and Recreation Division Chief Scott Abell said the closing is only related to campsites. All of the furnished cabins at the campground will be continue to be available.
“Pine View campsites will remain open until Nov. 30,” Abell said. “Sites will be closed for the winter at that point, but our cabins will remain available throughout the winter with ‘Stay and Play’ packages available for Whitetail Ridge, which include passes for the ski hill when you stay in a cabin.”
The Pine View Campground office and the Fort McCoy Equipment Check-out will also remain open, Abell said.
“The office will be manned as we’ll have the cabin guests, and they’ll handle reservations for camping in spring/summer,” he said. “Equipment check-out will be available, but business volume in that area is very low in the winter.”
With campsites open through November, it helps people who are coming to installation for the annual gun-deer season, Abell said. Once deer season in completed, he said the number of people camping drops significantly because of the colder weather.
“We get very few recreational campers during the timeframe the campsites are closed,” Abell said. “In past years, we primarily had long-term stays, which are no longer allowed. … And we were closed last winter, and it worked out just fine.”
And for the second consecutive year the campground has many cabins available to rent.
“Our cabins range from one bedroom with loft (park model type) to two-bedroom units,” Abell said. “They are all well maintained and great accommodations.”
Ten new park model cabins were added to the campground area in 2018. The park models have one bedroom, a full kitchen, a bathroom, a living room area with cable TV, air conditioning, and a washer and dryer.
Following are Pine View cabin rental rates:
* duplexes — military or Department of Defense (DOD) employee rate, $80 a night; general public, $90.
* one-bedroom cabins with a loft — military or DOD employee rate, $85 a night; general public, $95.
* lakeside two-bedroom cabins — military or DOD employee rate, $95 a night; general public, $120.
* east side two-bedroom cabins — military or DOD employee rate, $110 a night; general public, $135.
Get additional information about the campsite closure or cabin rates by stopping by the campground office or calling 608-388-3517. People can also find out more about DFMWR at Fort McCoy by visiting https://mccoy.armymwr.com.
Learn more about Fort McCoy online at https://home.army.mil/mccoy, on Facebook by searching “ftmccoy,” and on Twitter by searching “usagmccoy.” Also try downloading the Digital Garrison app to your smartphone and set “Fort McCoy” or another installation as your preferred base.
| Date Taken: | 10.15.2021 |
| Date Posted: | 10.15.2021 17:00 |
| Story ID: | 407379 |
| Location: | FORT MCCOY, WISCONSIN, US |
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