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Jan 08, 2018

Favorite Michigan Campgrounds

Hi Everyone - Some of our favorite campgrounds in Michigan are Porcupine Mtns. SP, Rifle River Rec. Area SP, and Kingston Lake SF. What are yours?
  • Have been to Harrisville State Park in the past and enjoyed it. Hadley recreation area too is nice but electric only hook up. Former Michigander here.
  • Favorite huh? I don't know. Here's several I have really enjoyed:

    Lake Gogebic State Park
    Copper Harbor State Park
    JW Wells State Park

    I haven't visited a state park I wouldn't visit again. There's some I don't understand the demographic they target, and so I've formed a bias against them and I'm not likely to visit.

    I also don't know anything about private parks in Michigan. The last one I visited charged me $5 to visit some friends for dinner. Their park, their rules, but my money says I'm never going to visit again. I guess I'm too cynical or contrarian to see the benefit of private parks. Is putting up with pages of rules and paying triple what a State Park costs really worth having sewer and water onsite?
  • We have family in Escanaba. We always camp at O. B. Fuller county park. Sites right on the lake. Beautiful little park.