Site 1 - 37, being run by Lieutenant General Wide Open Spaces, were less preferable than the second loop, where Private Woods E. Spots was apparently in charge. Our second state park in Ohio, we knew what to expect and were therefore... Read more

Spot 1 A was a privacy advocate for sure, save being close to the entrance (though somewhat “before” the rest of the campground.) Other spots were more naughty by nature, happy to reveal what many a camper would prefer to be their private... Read more

The appeal to others is not lost on me. We arrived here after a long day driving down the palm of Michigan’s mitten, arriving at a decent state park, only to find it full, and thus this was the next closest option. Dread soaked the hearts of... Read more

It’s a dump. A trash field. Toilet paper strewn all about the place, because people pooped in the woods with bathrooms right there? I don’t know. Budweiser boxes and bottle caps and cans scattered through half of the open sites. And though... Read more

Aside from the hosts, we had this entire campground to ourselves on a Friday, the week after Labor Day. While situated on a lake, like nearly all public camping in Northern Michigan and the UP, it didn’t have the same feel as only one or two sites... Read more

Don’t let the following dissuade you, this is a more than pleasant couple of loops situated—as most national forest campgrounds in the UP are—along a beautiful lake. What first put me off on the place, aside from my continuing disdain for the... Read more

Completely agreed, the proximity to the always slightly more enchanting than the last time Munising and Pictured Rocks, and the tall red pines swaying some 45° in the wind rushing over Lake Superior, just a kicked pinecone away from many sites,... Read more

So really only two downsides here. 1. “Dispersed camping.” Not really. If you’re used to the term out west, which can be defined as “places you can camp that are outside of a designated campground, typically free and scattered throughout a... Read more

It’s hit or miss and the difference is about a quarter mile’s worth of how big your spot, and slotted privacy, might be. Sites 28 and 29, along with a couple in the low 20s which were even better, took first place in the Most Likely to Be Bigger... Read more

Sufficient little campground next to a raging river. Four out of six of the spots were wide open and decorated in fruit loops and Bud Light trash, a milk bottle and some insulation that boasted about its capacity to deplete the ozone on the... Read more