Camping labor day weekend

Considering it's one of only 3, 3-day weekends during "camping season", kids are or will soon be back to school and involved in weekend activities, weather will soon be getting cooler, and facilities such as pools, water slides, etc. are still open but will soon close, nah, won't be anybody there. You'll have the place to yourself. :) Seriously, nothing wrong with it, especially if you have kids that are part of the fun. Just not for us anymore. Our main camping season starts the following weekend.

The three most crowded camping weekends of the year are Labor Day, Memorial Day, and Independence Day. I make it a point to stay home those three weekends. But then I'm not crazy like some folks.

If by quiet you mean packed in like sardines and plenty of drunken woots and hollarin as the sun goes down, that pretty much describes the parks in Michigan.

Not so much Labor day, pretty much any weekend mid June through early Sept.

There are some parks that are less popular, for example parks on Lake Huron are less popular than parks on Lake Michigan. Some of the downstate parks are "dry", no alcohol but it's not very well enforced, you'll see plenty of adults with the red plastic cups drinking their beverage, rather than a can or bottle in hand.

I don't know where I'm going yet. Druken hoots and hollarin is not my scene. Likely I'll end up in a USFS or MSF campground - no services usually means no crowd.

Out here in the west, Labor Day weekend is anything but quiet at most places to camp, commercial or otherwise. It marks the end of the season for a goodly number of places here in Colorado. I was at Glacier Basin in Rocky Mountain National Park this past weekend, it was completely full; they are only open 2 more weekends and then it's end of the season for them. Went past Elk Meadows Resort (commercial CG in Estes Park CO), they too were just about completely full, and will likely be that way until they close in October.

Many places out here start to close down shortly after Labor Day. Much of that is due to elevation. USFS CGs are dependent on snow and cold to determine when they close. Some close early; at lower elevations they close later. Commercial CG start to close around the middle of September, to mid-October out in this area.

I know you mentioned a tri-state area back in the Midwest, and KOAs. I would venture to say that many places back east that are popular camping spots will be like here in Colorado -- full and less than quiet. Guess it depends on what amenities/sights are in the area to make them popular.