WisconsinCams

September 11th, 2008 Author: Steven

Welcome to Wisconsin WebCams

We currently have the largest collection of Wisconsin WebCams on the internet.
I’ve also included some of my favorite webcams from Minnesota, Michigan and Illinois.
I’m always on the lookout for more cams, so if you have any cams that you’d like to see on the list, please leave a comment below with the link to the cam.

Wisconsin Cams

Western WI

South-Central WI

North-East WI

North Woods WI

Door County

South-East WI

Ski Resorts

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Minnesota

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27 Responses to “WisconsinCams”

  1. Karl says:

    Wow, I get to leave the very first comment on the Wisconsin cams page?!? I’m honored. Seriously the page looks great. Hey, are there in cams in The Dells area? Or is that The Baribous area? Now I’m getting my geography all mixed up.

    • Steven says:

      Hey Karl,
      I thought with all of the resorts in the Dells that there would be some cams so I checked many of the resort sites and none of them had cams. I was very surprised by that. And Baraboo is a little south of the Dells.

  2. Karl says:

    Not exactly sure where Chetek, Wisconsin is, but it was featured as a new cam on the Earthcam directory:

    http://www.redschetekwi.com/webcam.asp

    Looks like they even have a miniature lighthouse there!

  3. Karl says:

    Wow, the Mille Lacs webcam is amazing to watch lately. As it gets colder and colder and colder, ice is forming on the rocks as the waves splash the shore. If you click on the Hunter’s Point webcam – six miles to the north – the small boat harbor is now frozen over, while you can see the unfrozen lake surface (and its waves) just beyond the breakwater. The Hunter’s Point cam is at http://www.hunterspointresort.com/bobbercam.html

    So, these cams will very clearly show the process of a northern lake freezing over in the winter. Fascinating.

    • Brad says:

      The bobbercam at Mille Lacs is tucked in a bay and the ice formed sooner than our spot. However last night we had a big change. Check out http://www.mnlakecams.com today.

      It will be interesting to see how things go and if the ice holds, winds will be picking up on Sun.

      Brad

  4. Karl says:

    Mille Lacs is frozen!!! Mille Lacs is frozen!!! How did that happen?!?! It had huge waves on it just yesterday!!! Mille Lacs is frozen!!!

    • Steven says:

      That’s what single digit lows will do to a lake Karl :-)
      It’s pretty amazing how fast these lakes a freeze.

      I was just down by Lake Michigan and was wondering what the water temp was. It’s getting stirred up pretty good today though. There are big swells out there.

    • Steven says:

      Hey Karl,
      Brad added a blog to his Mille Lacs site today. Thought you might be interested in it.

      • Karl says:

        Cool, I just posted to it. Hey how come I’m the only person posting to the Wisconsin cams section?

        • Steven says:

          Not sure Karl. People are coming to the page. Guess no one is talkative.

          Have you checked out the view from the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago yet? It’s pretty awesome.

          • Karl says:

            I had seen that one – it’s awesome. It looks like a lot of the local FOX stations are putting in webcams in cities around the country. One of my favorites is the one in LA – they have views of the beach, the mountains and one of LAX where you can see planes landing and taking off in real time video.

  5. steve says:

    I just found out about the Chetek cam. Been waiting for a long time for it. Chetek is a resort town on Hwy 53 north of Eau Claire. Back in the 60′s during the summer months, the police used to have to direct traffic on Saturdays with all the Illinois tourists. Now they have a 53 bypass.

    Steve if you check out the Muskegon cam on Earthcam, it seems to be down now which is tragic. You can look at some of the archived snapshots of the sunsets and the bright vivid sand. It was the greatest webcam in the world in my opinion. Hope they get it going again.

    • Steven says:

      Steve,
      That Muskegon cam is run by the NOAA, so I would think that they’ll get it fixed. I hope so, I liked it too.

  6. steve says:

    Sorry,

    I’m talking about the camera that was hosted by surfmuskegon.com.
    Go to http://www.earthcam.com/usa/michigan/muskegon/.

    They have a sister cam in Grand Haven that is till up however.

    Go to the Muskegon one and click on the archived snapshots.
    You’ll see what I’m talking about.

    Where have you ever seen a streaming web cam with more vivid colors of sand and sunset?

    I never heard of that cam being hosted by NOAA, so I think you’re talking about the ones by the channel into Muskegon Lake.

    • Steven says:

      Oh, I thought you were talking about the one I have on the list. Yes, that cam is pretty cool. It seems to be working for me though. There’s a picture and i can control the camera. Not sure if it’s streaming though.

  7. steve says:

    No

    It’s not working. It’s been stuck there for days and the surfmuskegon website doesn’t work.

    The only way you can see the beauty is to click on the archives.

    Their sister website at surfgrandhaven still works, but I wish they would keep the Muskegon one instead.

    It has more vivid colors of sand and sky.

  8. Karl says:

    This is kind of a fun cam – I think it’s at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. It shows motion and is controllable: http://128.101.80.75/home/homeJ.html

  9. Karl says:

    The Mille Lacs webcam has just added a great time lapse feature. Really cool. It’s at the bottom of their page. This must be add-time-lapse-to-your-webcam month.

  10. Karl says:

    Looks like all the ice fishing shacks are off Mille Lacs. Is the ice fishing season over already?

    • Steven says:

      I don’t think ice fishing is over for the season, but in a post a few weeks back Brad said they pull the shacks off Mille Lacs Lake for safety reasons this time of year. You never know when a warm up will happen.