The early arrivals roll onto the Cadott festival grounds off County Highway S on the Sunday before the music starts, and by midweek the water trucks are working the aisles. They top off rig tanks and the pools families set out beside them while a shuttle runs a closed loop through the campground, so nobody has to move the rig once it's level. The showers are free and open around the clock from Wednesday noon.
Hoofbeat Country Fest fills the grounds in late June and Rock Fest takes over in mid July, each billed as the biggest camping festival of its kind in the country across 7,500 campsites. Families and groups from around Eau Claire run them as a parked week, rolling in on the early-camp days and living on the site until the last night's set.
Setting up at the Cadott festival grounds
Early camping runs Sunday through Tuesday before each festival at no extra cost, and the campgrounds formally open Wednesday with the power on around noon, per Hoofbeat's camping page as of October 2026. Those early days are what make a week-long rental fit the trip, because the rig goes in while the aisles are still open and the weekend crowd arrives to find you settled.
Every site is 18 by 40 feet and takes one vehicle, one sleeping unit and up to six people, per Rock Fest's camping page, so a bigger group books a second site next door. Mixed tent and RV camping runs through every area, and all of it is within walking distance of the stages.
Power is the part to lock first, because general sites have no electric and only the electric sites carry a 30 amp and 15 amp hookup, which is what runs the air through a July afternoon. At Rock Fest those sites are confined to a handful of rows in the South and North campgrounds, and they go before anything else. Reserve the site, then book a rig that suits it.
The rentals go just as fast. The groups chasing the electric rows are the same ones chasing motorhomes and towables around Eau Claire for those few days, so booking the site in winter and the rig in June leaves you with whatever is left. Many towables in the listings are delivered and set up on the site by their owners, and the festival plans for it with its own process for rented rigs. Delivery is listing by listing, never a given, so confirm it and the pickup after the festival before you pay.
Coon Fork Lake County Park near Augusta
Outside festival weeks, the quieter Eau Claire week runs to Coon Fork Lake near Augusta, where the campground's D loop sits close to the boat dock and the dam and the lake shows through the trees. Sites are roomy and wooded, and the campground roads are narrow and tree-lined, which is worth knowing before you bring the longest rig on the lot.
The D loop has water and electric at its sites and is set aside for self-contained units, so the rig needs its own bathroom and holding tanks, per Eau Claire County Parks. The county opens the campground from May through mid-September and takes online reservations for the season along with walk-ins at the office, per its camping page. Summer weekends at a county lake fill with locals, so hold the D loop before you book the rig.
For two people, or anyone who would rather not ease a long motorhome down those wooded roads, a smaller rig makes sense, and the Eau Claire campervan page covers Hoofbeat as a festival night along with Lake Wissota, Brunet Island and Interstate state parks and the Chippewa River State Trail. A hookup week on a bigger lake belongs to the private campgrounds on Lake Wissota, laid out on the Chippewa Falls RV page.