Castle Rock Lakefront Mackinac Trail Campground

This is a nice park, we stayed in site 98. If I ever make it back this way I would choose a spot over in the 40 range or the 63 - 70 range. They looked much easier to get into, and they were away from the playground so a little quieter.
Minimal to no cell service in the park. The park Wifi was good, speed test was between 50 - 100Mb every time which was good enough for the wife and I to be on conference calls at the same time without disruption.
It was a great location to visit Mackinac Island. Staff was friendly and helpful.

This park seems like it is well past its heyday. The sites are dirt and squirrely in arrangement. The erosion in the park is pretty massive with old swing sets and water pipes well out into the lake. Our site was very narrow and muddy. The dump area was up in the trees near some very run down full-timer trailers.

Despite the water view, I wouldn't stay again.

Beautiful views of the lake! Overall campground is clean and fairly well maintained. Campsite itself was very small and muddy. We stayed 4 days and the first two were great! There was nobody on either side of us so it was very quiet and relaxing! Then the family from hell parked next to us. Four kids and no idea how to control them. The next two days were loud and the opposite of relaxing! That is more about bad parents then the actual campground. I would stay again and hope for better neighbors! The site had some TV reception and weak cell service.

We had a nice site on Lake Heron facing Mackinac Island. The water is a beautiful color and a little Cool. We kayaked right off the beach in front of our site we had a nice view. As we looked back at the campsite you could see Castle Rock in the background. They had clean restrooms and a nice laundry room.

We did have people park in front of our site along the beach blocking our view so we told the guy in the office he made them move. If you want to block your own view that's ok, but be respectful they had 2 trucks & motorcycles. They had dogs and were using our site that was next to them prior to us arriving. There were lots of games set up & dog poop everywhere I stepped in it. They had a lot of family camping with them, very noisy.

There is a fish market there in St. Ignace we got some smoked whitefish spread that was some of the best ever. We went out to Mackinac Island it was so crowded worse than P town or Key West you couldn't walk down the street or walk in a fudge shop they were so crowded. Mackinac Island is pretty I would rent a bike to get around.

I would stay there again it was a nice site.