1st Place: Coon Fork Lake County Park
2nd Place: Lake Wissota State Park
3rd Place: Brunet Island State Park

With the same lineup as last year, these local campgrounds offer a new experience every time. Reigning champion Coon Fork is located 30 miles from Eau Claire near Augusta, and attracts campers with their swimming beach and more than 100 sites to set up a quiet weekend outdoors. Just northeast of Chippewa Falls, Lake Wissota State Park includes secluded hiking trails, beaches, and campsites around this manmade lake. Canoe, fish, or swim around third place Brunet Island State Park, located in Cornell. Gather up your crew, family, or a love interest, and let these three locations lower your blood pressure, and provide entertainment sans technology. – Caitlin Heidbrink

Really?: If these are too much work, three voters suggest “Outside Wal-Mart.”