Long Pine is the Sandhills’ creek-canyon campground. A spring-fed creek carrying rainbow and brown trout meanders through a pine-filled valley just far enough off Highway 20 that the park genuinely feels like an escape — at night you hear the creek babbling from your tent. The fishing listing covers the creek itself; this is where you stay while you fish it.
The town of Long Pine (population ~300) once anchored the Hidden Paradise Resort, a 1912-era heated-bathhouse resort that drew Lawrence Welk and his band. That glamour is gone, but the park kept the essential idea: water, pines, and peace. Summer brings tubers cooling off in the creek; trout anglers work the cold water year-round. Sites run electric hookups plus tent areas, most with picnic shelters, and the campground is reservable for summer holidays when tubing traffic peaks.
Come in the slower months too — winter campers talk about the quiet and the dark-sky stars. Wildlife is everywhere: deer, turkeys, bald eagles. One note from road reports: the campground sits in a valley below the entrance, so some sites aren’t level — tent campers do best. This is Brown County’s signature park, and it earns the title.