louiskathy,
I understand. I sure do not agree with some of the posters on this thread as Hoffmaster is usually an excellent park and CG with 3 very modern and clean bathouses, miles of well marked hiking trails in the forests and dunes on the over 1100 acre park, 2-1/2 miles of superb clean pure sand beach on Lake Michigan, kids love to play in the clean flowing creek, most of the 293 campsites are level and plenty large and you had one of the smallest (site 2) across from the bathouse and the host on that loop, an excellent large 2 story nature center, long constructed wood observation walkways all the way to the beach from the nature center and also to the top of a dune overlook decks for lake and dune views, an extremely family friendly state park, and of course, it's always filled like nearly all the lakeshore state park CG's. So much to do for all ages in these lakeshore state parks!
5 beach miles south of Hoffmaster is Grand Haven State Park and it gets over 2 million visitors every year and is only 48 acres. 20 miles south of GHSP is Holland State Park which gets around 1.7 million visitors each year. Then there's the very popular huge Ludington State Park. Heck, there's over 100 State Parks in Michigan and most all of them are on the water! Must be some real good reasons these lakeshore state parks etc have so many visitors each year and year after year for over 90 years now! Yes, you need reservations very early at most of the lakeshore state parks all summer long as they are that popular and are sold out very quick in January, right after New Years. Includes Hoffmaster as it's usually full too. BTW, Grand Haven local area has 12 CG's with 8 of them on the big lake or the Grand River and most are also full in summer. Depends on what type of CG an RV'er wants.
Not putting down Pioneer Park but it's a very different kind of CG and Park and is much smaller, less than 1/8th the size of Hoffmaster, and is quite flat compared.
I'm sorry that you just happened to be at Hoffmaster when a very freak storm hit and dumped so much rain. So far from normal! The ANNUAL total precipitation along the Lake Michigan side of the state is only 29"-30" and it for 12 months and it of course includes the winter snow so you can see how strange and abnormal the rain fall was at Hoffmaster.
