For those who have never been to the beach etc at Grand Haven or even Holland, this may help you ubderstand what it's like:
The reason Grand Haven and Holland State Park's beach front CG camping is on concrete similar to a very large space parking type lot is because it's all really soft pure beach sand in the entire state parks and if you ever drove off the concrete, your RV and vehicle would sink down to the frame quick and you'd need a good big tow truck to pull you out! The sand in Michigan is not a bit like the ocean beach sand where you can drive on it. The type of beach sand in Michigan mainly only exists here and there's a little in Australia. The only two places on the planet Earth. It sings when you walk on it from the motion of your shoes or feet. That's why it's called "singing sand" or "golden singing sand".
There's sand sculpture contests, kite festivals, pro beach volleyball tournaments, college beach pole vaulting tournaments, skimmerboards used along the shoreline, windsurfing, surfboarding, and gobs of humans soaking up the sun and swimming. The beach is very wide at Grand Haven State Park and close to a mile long and parking for a few thousand vehicles right there. The city beach starts at the south end of the state park. The Grand Haven SP campground beach area has no day beachgoers parking as it's mostly used by the campers. The wide boardwalk with benches, bathrooms, and food/snacks out to the end of the pier and/or to downtown .7 miles is at the north end of the CG and all along the Grand River with grassy park after grassy park all the way. Boats galore everywhere and over a hundred huge ships in and out of the harbor each season. We love to watch the eyes of the visitors and the kids who live in inland areas when a huge 2 block long ship goes past them 50-100 feet away. Camera's just a clicking away and chattering away like magpies and waving to the crew while running to keep up with the moving ship. Something very different for them!
Occasionally you'll see a bunch of kids or adults with bare feet in a circle trying to play out a simple musical song by scuffing their feet at different angles etc thru the singing sand. Some of the groups we've heard are pretty darn good at it. The same sand is under the water but when wet it makes no noise at all. There's no stones or rock as it's pure clean light amber/golden colored beach sand and there's no salt in the water to make it stick securely to your skin. When it's dry, it simply falls off unless you have greasy sun tan lotion on!
