Michigan Upper Peninsula camping
Looking for recommendations for state parks in Michigan’s Upper peninsula. We’ve crossed the Mackinaw bridge and done the north side of Lake Superior before. We’re thinking of exploring the south sid...
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garmp wrote:
We stayed at a couple of state parks on our way to the UP and as a disabled vet were not charged use fees until we hit Brimely SP and were taken back by the sudden change of regs. Being from Missouri and unaware of the use fees it was sort of a shock. Not that I minded, it's just that half way though our trip all of a sudden we're hit with another fee.
That's a bummer. I did a quick look into anything official, and came up with nothing. Several unofficial sources claim that the day use / entrance fee is waved for disabled vets. But nothing on the State of Michigan website.
It looks like someone tried to eliminate fees for totally and fully disabled vets in 2013, HB 2013-SFA-4297, but I can't find any evidence that bill was adopted.
