Michigan State Parks Fee Nightmare
I haven't even been to the UP of Michigan yet and I know that I will never camp in a Michigan State Park ever again. Let this be a lesson to anybody planning on staying and reserving a spot in a Mich...
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Personally, we've never had any problems finding a Michigan State Park CG that had at least one site open in our 50 years this year of RVing. If the park we wanted to stay at was full, we'd just keep on driving and sometimes we'd be in the U.P. before we found a site open in a state park. No problem! For us anyway but it's not for everyone as some people are not flexible. Adventure was and is fun! We simply didn't and don't care that much because there are so many very nice state parks here to choose from in our state and we knew that even if we didn't find one while looking, we could always go to a state forest or national forest CG as there are a couple hundred of them in Michigan and are all over the state basically. Then there's the county park CG's and the private CG's. Nope! We don't include Walmarts etc as that's not camping. Just places to get some ZZZ's.
Never once have we NOT found a CG or place to stay and it also caused us to try so many other places too. We have never based our camping on having any hookups as our RV's were always self-contained and we liked to move around every couple days anyway to explore new areas. The refrigerator, cook stove, furnace, hot water heater all run great on propane and the batteries run the lights and water pump and the TV if used. Later, the inverter and the generator with an adequate battery pack even gives us all the AC we need so even electric is not anything special the last about 25 years. The water tank is always filled at home before we leave and the holding tanks are empty. Got a nice shower and a toilet that works excellent, a propane grill, a nice awning, even our own folding table for outside, very comfortable folding chairs and little plastic stools that serve as foot stools or snack tables for food and drinks. Nothing's missing! Those are all reasons why we have an RV to travel/camp with in the first place! Hookups are merely a plus but far from ever required.
To us, it was boring to just be in the very same site in a park for a full week and still is for a week or two trip/vacation. Only 2 times so far in all those years have we had reservations and that was because there were several in the traveling group that needed electric hookups due to medical issues and we wanted to be all together in the same CG section next to one another.
Never once have we NOT found a CG or place to stay and it also caused us to try so many other places too. We have never based our camping on having any hookups as our RV's were always self-contained and we liked to move around every couple days anyway to explore new areas. The refrigerator, cook stove, furnace, hot water heater all run great on propane and the batteries run the lights and water pump and the TV if used. Later, the inverter and the generator with an adequate battery pack even gives us all the AC we need so even electric is not anything special the last about 25 years. The water tank is always filled at home before we leave and the holding tanks are empty. Got a nice shower and a toilet that works excellent, a propane grill, a nice awning, even our own folding table for outside, very comfortable folding chairs and little plastic stools that serve as foot stools or snack tables for food and drinks. Nothing's missing! Those are all reasons why we have an RV to travel/camp with in the first place! Hookups are merely a plus but far from ever required.
To us, it was boring to just be in the very same site in a park for a full week and still is for a week or two trip/vacation. Only 2 times so far in all those years have we had reservations and that was because there were several in the traveling group that needed electric hookups due to medical issues and we wanted to be all together in the same CG section next to one another.
