Hildebrandt Campground — Warren Dunes State Park

Stayed at site 201 at the Hildebrandt campground. Sites are smallish. Most sites have some shade, but little privacy in between. The scenery wasnt that great, mostly vine like trees you'd see in a flood plain. The water pump was out during our stay and needed to go to the station near the modern campground.

We were scheduled to stay for 3d/2n but plans changed due to weather from hurricane beryl. It started to rain in the first evening and we had a mini creek running through our site. With the amount of rain projected to be on its way we could only imagine it being completely flooded.

Mosquitoes were awful even before the rain. Vault toilets were well taken care of.

If you want quite or the sound of nature, this campground is not for you. You can hear road traffic and trains at all times, especially at night. The general store near the campground entrance is a nice convenience if you forgot something or need ice/fire wood.

It is wonderful though how close the Campground are to Lake Michigan/warren dunes, which is why we stayed.

Hildebrandt Campground--

The campground itself was great. The sites were pretty close together and not and tree barrier between them. It was super close to the beach and tons of things to do in the area. We stayed Sunday through Thursday and it was pretty empty. However it POURED down rain 2/4 of those nights. I don't just mean a steady drizzle, it almost blew our tent down. It got pretty crazy. There were lots of sites completely under water the next morning. We got pretty lucky to not have any standing water in ours. Now the mosquitos! Insane! I've never seen more mosquitos in my life. You literally couldn't even walk out of your tent without being swarmed. The woman at the campstore said it wasn't usual to be that bad. We kept a fire going and it seemed to help a bit. I'd definitely recommend visiting the produce stand right down the road. They had every vegetable and fruit you could imagine. The strawberries were the best I've had. I'd probably stay there again and pay attention to the weather a bit more.