Jellystone Park Petoskey

We just got back from a couple night stay. We had smash been two years ago before the new section had opened. At the time it was a KOA and was very nice, quiet, great location close to town. With the new sites this has become one of our favorite campgrounds and the view across Round Lake are wonderful. The cable has multiple channels and the wifi was streaming capable along with great cell reception (Verizon) We’ll definitely be back, hopefully got the fall color

Sites are way to close. You can hardly navigate your rig through the twisted roads to get to your site! Parties went on well past midnight. Loud obnoxious drunks! This sux when you have small children and there's screaming and yelling well past midnight! This was by far the worst KOA we have stayed at!
Hidden $15.00 "Select Your Site" Fee
Cable nor the WiFi were working

First KOA stay and would return for sure. Very clean overall with most of the sites in great shape. We like wooded so secured that up front and didn’t disappoint. Lots of activities if you like that but location was supreme as a short bike ride to grocery store and some restaurants and awesome bike trail that runs into Petoskey and on to Charlavoix.

I usually write my reviews AFTER our stay, but I chose to write this one DURING our stay. We made reservations in January for our late August visit. It wasn’t till we got our pre-visit email a few days before that we saw they had us ( 2 couples in 2 Class A’s) in 30 amp sites. At that late date, they had just a few sites to offer us for our 5 night stay. We were suppose to have adjacent sites, but instead were separated (27 & 19) down the street. We were put in a corner next to at least 2 work-campers (free sites) and our site had a fallen, cut tree laying in the back of our site. For $88./ night! We did get a military (buy 2, get 1 free) discount, but I still feel it is WAY overpriced! Look at photos and judge for yourself if this site ( with gold car) is worth that much. They have a lot of things for kids to do- volleyball, playground, arcade room, pool; but the hot tub (our favorite) was closed - Covid?

We had a 50 amp FHU paved pull thru with a concrete patio, picnic table, fire ring. The site was short. Had to disconnect the tow and park it at an angle partially on the grass to get off the road. Most places tell you not to park on the grass but here they let you. The water and electric were at the front of the site so we needed both water hoses. Electric just made. We did see some longer pull thrus with the hookups in the back in what looked like a newer area of the park. Laundry had 6 washers $2.25 and 4 dryers $1.25 for 45 minutes. Very family friendly- pool, bounce house, playground, volleyball, activity room. The “cafe” is only open Friday and Saturday evenings. It has pizza and ice cream. Park is gated there is an off leash dog area. Close to Petoskey, Harbor Springs, Charlevoix. Sites were kind of close. Can’t give it five stars because sites are short with hookups at the wrong end, close together, and the price is high. Cable worked well. Other than the neighbors three dogs who barked at everything that moved it was fairly quiet.