CG near Henry Ford Museum Dearborn MI

The closest campground to the museum is Detroit-Greenfield RV park in Belleville. Detroit Greenfield Website The campground is 24 miles away and total drive time will be right around 30 minutes. With a 37 ft trailer the units up front (104 - 118) are the easiest to get into as there are minimal trees on these sites, the downside is there also is not much shade. The other sites in the campground are fairly heavily treed so you need to be careful maneuvering, doable in the daytime but I would not recommend attempting in the dark. The roads in this park are all gravel and the sites are too so in June you may encounter some amount of dust.

If you prefer a campground with all paved pads and roads than your best option is Harbortown in Monroe. The trade-off is a slightly longer drive at 43 minutes (34.6 miles). You will fit in any site at Harbor Town and the roads are wide and big rig friendly. Harbor Town Link

There are a few other options, but these are the two parks that I frequent the most in the area that are easily accessible to large fifth wheels.

If you plan on visting both the Henry Ford Museum and the Village I would plan at least two days to see both. The weekend of June 16th is the motor muster which brings a large quantity of classic cars into the museum. If you are interested in classic cars this is a great event, but is also one of the busiest weekends of summer at the museum.

Dan,

Gardner's post was about as good as you can get. The only thing I would like to add is that you get on the website for specifics of what will be going on when you get there. We were volunteers there when the kids were children, and don't follow it as much these days. Some, like civil war encampment, maker faire and motor muster are things that you may chose to get to or avoid. His 2 day remark is dead on.

Matt

Or you could add 15 minutes travel time and stay at Maumee Bay SP with nice large sites.

Sterling State Park also has full hookups, and it's about 35 min from the museum.

2 days for sure !

If that was all you wanted to see in the area, there is adequate parking at the museum during the day if you get there reasonably early. Then find a Walmart that allows overnighting.

Some special events allow camping out back. No electric, water or sewer.

The closet RV park to Henry Ford is Wayne County Fair Grounds.
Decent place to stay. Close to shopping, food and Camping World.

Detroit Greenfield was a bit of a dump when I was there a couple years ago. I got stuck back in the woods on a site that was **** near impossible to get into and beside some guy who was fulltiming in some POS up on blocks.

Dan,

I am going to jump back in here again and vote for the Wayne County Fairground if you are not going to have to entertain children. We have no reason to know much about these as we share a zip code, but the county fairground didn't used to have an FHU and it was kind of sad. That has changed. It is worth a look. There are also two others that are closer, but neither is worth consideration for lots of reasons.

Matt

Matt_Colie wrote:
Dan,

I am going to jump back in here again and vote for the Wayne County Fairground if you are not going to have to entertain children. We have no reason to know much about these as we share a zip code, but the county fairground didn't used to have an FHU and it was kind of sad. That has changed. It is worth a look. There are also two others that are closer, but neither is worth consideration for lots of reasons.

Matt

Teachers Pet stayed there last summer. OP send him a PM. I heard no complaints from him.

Before you make that reservation for the fairgrounds be aware that it is nothing but a parking lot with hookups. There is absolutely nothing there (not even a tree). If you are looking for a place to sleep NP, otherwise there is nothing else to do there (not even a set of monkey bars). There is a decent pickninking park down the road a bit.