Best Glamping near Petoskey, MI

Petoskey KOA and Young State Park Campground offer distinctive glamping experiences in northern Michigan's scenic lakeside setting. The Petoskey KOA features deluxe glamping accommodations including yurts and premium canvas tents with electricity, comfortable queen-sized beds, and climate control options. Young State Park provides upscale glamping cabins along the shores of Lake Charlevoix with modern amenities and picturesque views. One visitor noted, "The yurt is worth the splurge! Complete with electricity, indoor and outdoor string lights, two deck chairs, a heater, a queen sized bed, and an electric kettle with pour over coffee supplies, it was truly a treat!" Both locations maintain clean, modern bathroom facilities with hot showers, and most glamping accommodations include private fire pits, picnic tables, and outdoor seating areas for enjoying the natural surroundings.

The luxury camping options near Petoskey provide easy access to northern Michigan's renowned outdoor attractions. Guests at these glamping sites can explore the 23.5-mile Little Traverse Wheelway bike trail connecting Harbor Springs to Charlevoix, or take short drives to Mackinac Island's historic sites. According to a camper, "We decided to splurge on a yurt for our first camping trip of the summer. Well worth it!" Water activities abound with Lake Michigan beaches just minutes away, while Petoskey's charming downtown offers boutique shopping, local breweries, and restaurants within walking distance of Magnus Park's upscale accommodations. Most glamping sites in the region remain open from May through October, with peak season reservations recommended 6-9 months in advance for premium canvas tent sites and lakefront yurts. Winter glamping options with heating are available at select locations for those seeking snowy northern Michigan experiences.

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Best Glamping Sites Near Petoskey, Michigan (39)

    1. Young State Park Campground

    19 Reviews
    Boyne City, MI
    9 miles
    Website
    +1 (231) 582-7523

    "The facilities were clean and the grounds themselves were a pleasure to walk around. The camp store was the best stocked one I’ve seen yet."

    "Very friendly staff and clean park. Family friendly and pet friendly, beach was close by and clean. Reservations were very easy to make online and allows you to pick your site."

    2. Magnus Park Campground

    16 Reviews
    Petoskey, MI
    2 miles
    Website
    +1 (231) 347-1027

    "The location makes this campground. Stayed 6 nights as it was so relaxing."

    "The park is run by the City of Petoskey and sits on 21 acres in downtown Petoskey overlooking Lake Michigan.  "

    3. Petoskey KOA

    15 Reviews
    Conway, MI
    6 miles
    Website
    +1 (231) 347-0005

    "The campground had a pool and laundry room. They were building another section that looked amazing!"

    "The laundry was nice and clean but a bit expensive $2.25 per load. When we checked in the staff raved about the onsite KOA café’s pizza but we didn't try it. "

    4. Petoskey RV Resort, A Sun RV Resort

    4 Reviews
    Petoskey, MI
    2 miles
    Website
    +1 (231) 348-2400

    "Nice staff. Close to Petoskey"

    "We sat at the gate for a min trying to find a place to go to when a staff member showed up on his scooter."

    5. Burt Lake State Park Campground

    21 Reviews
    Indian River, MI
    19 miles
    Website
    +1 (231) 238-9392

    "Large, level electric sites. Very large campground in general. Since we were there in September and mid week, it was quiet. Bath house clean, but a bit outdated. Nice beach and swimming area."

    "Staff was helpful, neighbors were friendly, bathrooms were clean, and it's right on the lake! Very pet-friendly, very busy. Reserve in advance."

    6. Leelanau State Park Campground

    36 Reviews
    Northport, MI
    28 miles
    Website
    +1 (231) 386-5422

    $20 / night

    "Close to town Fire pits No hook up at the tent sites"

    "Our campsite was feet away from Lake Michigan- practically on the shoreline! Going to bed and waking up to the lapping of the waves is something you can’t miss here."

    7. Haakwood State Forest Campground

    7 Reviews
    Wolverine, MI
    20 miles
    Website
    +1 (989) 732-3541

    $15 - $20 / night

    "You can’t beat $15 a night, each rustic site is fairly secluded with privacy, and you’re right by Michigan’s only area to view free roaming wild elk!"

    "This campground is right on the north central bike path and I came to this here for that easy access."

    8. Chandler Hill Campground

    2 Reviews
    Wolverine, MI
    15 miles
    Website
    +1 (231) 549-7878

    "Recommend the on site ATVrental lots of trails to ride"

    9. Mackinaw City / Mackinac Island KOA

    24 Reviews
    Mackinaw City, MI
    31 miles
    Website
    +1 (231) 436-5643

    "This lot (a premium lot) comes with a concrete patio with a round table with four chairs, two Adirondack chairs and a fire pit and a charcoal box grill."

    "This campground is located just out of town in Mackinaw City, MI."

    10. Aloha State Park Campground

    15 Reviews
    Mullett Lake, MI
    29 miles
    Website
    +1 (231) 625-2522

    $30 - $34 / night

    "There’s 3 different sections, the first 2 being older with mostly “no camping pad” electric sites, and the 3rd is newer with gravel full hookup sites. The lake is easily accessible and wonderful."

    "Fully stocked camp store with pizza and ice cream. Fishing off the inlet and Jetties were good.

    Not all sites have full hookups"

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Glamping Reviews near Petoskey, MI

373 Reviews of 39 Petoskey Campgrounds


  • J
    Jul. 13, 2024

    Mackinaw City / Mackinac Island KOA

    Great park near Mackinac Island ferries

    Our site was $99.89 night.

    We were in Site# 98. We had Full hook- up with a gravel pull-through.
    We travel towing a 14 foot trailer and were able to fit both in our pull through site along with my jeep. The site was easy to level.

    Our site was not shaded with limited trees (many were shaded though). This was a smaller lot with our neighbors fairly close.

    This lot (a premium lot) comes with a concrete patio with a round table with four chairs, two Adirondack chairs and a fire pit and a charcoal box grill.

    It is an easy access to the campground from highway -(approximately 1 mile from highway).

    There is free WiFi. They offer Cable TV and there are many channels.

    There is not a community outdoor kitchen or community fire pit.
    They sell wood for $7 a bundle.

    They pickup your garbage at your site daily.

    You are allowed to ride personal golf carts. They also allow you to rent regular bicycles and e-bikes. They do not provide golf cart rentals. There is really not a need to have a Golf cart because it is a smaller campground.

    They do have a Swimming pool. There is a Playground. They also offer Gaga ball,horseshoe, and corn hole. There is a Reading lending library and board games to borrow.

    They have a great general store. There is an electric car charging station. They sell propane.

    There is not a snack bar/restaurant on site.

    The streets are gravel so not great for riding bikes.

    There are great places to ride bikes outside of campground. From the campground, there is a nature trail that you can take your bike that leads you to the. North Western State Trail.

    They have cabins for rent and tent areas.

    They have one shower house. The shower house has individual showers. Toilets with sinks are in a shared bathroom. These are kept very clean.

    There is a laundry facility. It is a cash only facility. There are approximately 5 washers and 5 dryers. It is approximately $2.50 to wash and $1.50 to dry a load.

    They have a fenced in dog park.

    Bugs (mosquitoes/flies)did not seem to be an issue.

    There were trails to hike off of the campground.

    Some fun things to do outside of the campground are go to the beach (1 mile away); visit Mackinac Island (both major ferries will transport you for free - this KOA provides you information for Shepler’s Ferry). Both ferries offer packages that include horse drawn carriage rides, Fort Mackinac admission, Island Hotel Admission, Butterfly House admission, Mystery Town admission, and Parking options). There is a Jack Pine Lumberjack show.

  • Meaghan G.
    Jun. 3, 2021

    Tiki RV Park & Campground

    The yurt is worth the splurge!

    We decided to splurge on a yurt for our first camping trip of the summer. Well worth it! We stayed in"Kai" one of the newest yurts. It's at the end of what we came to call"the yurt village". Complete with electricity, indoor and outdoor string lights, two deck chairs, a heater, a queen sized bed, and an electric kettle with pour over coffee supplies, it was truly a treat! The bathroom and shower building is about.1 miles each way according to my fitness tracker, but it's doable. Downside: the firepit is small(about the size of a small charcoal grill) and shallow, so it's not really suitable for cooking. Bring a propane stove or some no-cook foods, or go enjoy some of the area restaurants! The site is still a diamond in the rough with cut downed wood and sawdust scattered about, and the ground is uneven. With time, though, it will probably turn out beautifully! We were there for three weeknights and rarely even heard other campers. A quiet and peaceful retreat.

  • FThe Dyrt PRO User
    Oct. 30, 2021

    Magnus Park Campground

    Great location!

    The location makes this campground. Stayed 6 nights as it was so relaxing.

    Pros:

    • Right on Lake Michigan
    • Only a 15 min walk from Petoskey downtown

    Cons:

    • The sites are quite close together
    • The showers are pretty basic

    Would stay here again.

  • S
    May. 5, 2021

    Little Brevort Lake North State Forest Campground

    Chill spot

    We decided to stay 5 days here after our original plan fell through. It’s a smaller secluded campground with larger sites. We arrived in the middle of the week so there were a variety of sites available. Each site has a fire pit and picnic table. Be prepared to bring enough firewood and supplies as many of the shops nearby close early.

    Pros: Little Brevort lake is a great spot for stargazing with good visibility and shooting stars. Large sites, close to Lake Michigan, quiet, secluded, great views, shaded sites, inexpensive, opportunity to listen to native wildlife.

    Cons: Sites can be close together but not clustered. Bathrooms are stocked by DNR but were FULL of flies. No individual trash cans, dumpster only. We made the mistake of buying cheap trash bags that ripped on the way to the dumpster.

  • Robert M.
    Aug. 3, 2020

    Black Lake State Forest Upper ORV Campground

    Terrible camping experience

    I just saw a review from another camper who experienced the same as me; generators everywhere, no peace and quiet, no rangers to tell people to turn down their music, no one to police the crazy orv drivers who treated the 10 mph roads as race tracks.  Do not go here if you're looking for a nice time.  This campground is horrible, loud, dirty, and not managed.  It’s full of drunk yahoos who use it as a cheap place to stay in northern Michigan.

  • Nancy W.The Dyrt PRO User
    Jun. 24, 2017

    Magnus Park Campground

    Great Location to Downtown and Lake Michigan

    This park has some strong positives that outweigh the negatives so depending on what really annoys you about a campground determines whether you may or may not like this place. The park is run by the City of Petoskey and sits on 21 acres in downtown Petoskey overlooking Lake Michigan.  Petoskey has a really cool downtown with great restaurants (we liked Beard’s Brewery, Palette Bistro, and Grand Traverse Pie Company), shopping, a free art center (Crooked Tree), parks, and a pretty marina with a scenic breakwater lighthouse. If you have never been to this part of Michigan, you should definitely come for a visit. 

    The campground is very popular because of the price and location with about 1/3 of the park occupied by seasonal or monthly rentals of people that have been coming for many years.  There are 71 sites which can be used for RVs or tents.  Roads are paved and sites are grass/sand. There are fire pits and picnic tables at each site and a nice large grassy area in the front of the park near Lake Michigan with multiple picnic tables in a common space. 

    There are many positive attributes of this park. The location of this park could not be better and the price of $30/night (water, sewer, 30 amp electric; $28 for electric and water only) is a great deal. (Especially because other private campgrounds in the area are easily $60+/night in the summer season.) They have free wifi that worked well and we were able to get over-the-air antenna television channels. You are really in a prime location with Lake Michigan in front of you. Many of the sites in this park have a great view of the lake (especially sites 1-16). Running through the park is the Little Traverse Wheelway which is a paved bike path spanning from the cute towns of Charlevoix to Harbor Springs. (If you don’t have a bike with you there are plenty of rental places nearby.)  

    Now for the negatives. The bathroom/shower houses are old and tired but were clean. The park sits between a hospital and water treatment plant, one of which can be smelly on warm days the other of which has a very loud HVAC system generating lots of noise. The park is located close to the busy road M-31 so there is a bit of road noise. The sites are very close together so there is not much privacy. The park is open to day-use and has a heavily used bike path running right through it so there are lots of people coming and going.

  • A
    Aug. 14, 2018

    Mackinaw City / Mackinac Island KOA

    Great Campground in a beautiful place

    This campground is located just out of town in Mackinaw City, MI. The location of the campground is within 5 minutes of downtown Mackinaw, within 1-2 miles of a beach and about 10-15 minute drive of St. Ignace. The campground pretty small and quiet. We camped in a small back in site with water and electric hook-ups. There is one bathroom and shower facility but it looks like they are building another. The bathroom was clean and constantly maintained. The staff was friendly, and helpful. They offer trash pick up each morning and ice delivery. There is a small campground store with some basic essentials. There is some construction going on, but we haven’t heard any equipment and the area is fenced off with a privacy fence so we haven’t seen the construction either. Overall this campground is very nice.

  • Nicole D.
    Sep. 11, 2021

    Brevoort Lake Campground

    Clean, Quiet Campground

    We choose this campground for its close-ish proximity to St. Ignace and the Labor Day Bridge Walk. There are modern toilets, and even though the facilities are very dated they are possibly the cleanest I've ever come across at a campground. There are kayak, SUP and Canoe rentals on site, as well as ice and wood for sale. There is potable water and a dump station. (The water is far enough from the dump to feel safe enough to fill our tanks.). Very quiet after 10pm, the quiet hours seemed very enforced, there was not a single generator going overnight. A nice mix of FCFS sites and reservable ones, and there were at least some vacancies even though it was a holiday weekend.

  • Jeffrey S.The Dyrt PRO User
    Oct. 28, 2020

    Magnus Park Campground

    Decent base camp

    It is a municipal campground so we didn't expect much but the access to the Little Traverse Wheelway and views of Lake Michigan were awesome - and full hook ups for the price was great.  It has a small bathhouse and the sites are pull-though with back to back setup (so utilities are at the same post as one of your neighbors) but we scored that the 2 sites in front of us cancelled (it was wet, cold, windy and in general miserable weather but we lucked out day 2 and got a bike ride in to Petoskey State Park and a stop at Burnt Marshmallow Brewing before rain rolled back in) so we had a big open space for the kids to bike around on and allowed a view of the lake.

    link on The Dyrt doesn't work - try this:

    https://www.petoskey.us/departments/parks\_and\_recreation/campground.php

    PROS: was really quiet, our neighbor is a regular and was extremely friendly and helpful.  The bike path to Petoskey State Park is right in front of the campground and takes you by the harbor and can branch off into town too.  Really close to downtown (which we did not explore but looks really nice).  We originally planned on staying at the state park but the campsite was half closed due to construction (so it will probably be really nice next year) but this worked out great.  Full hook ups on long pull thru sites for the price was great.  Firewood was available at the check-in kiosk and there is a playground on site.  Bathhouse with showers.  Less than 1 hour from Mackinac Island.  I read mentions of the hospital noise and while trucks unloading during the day was noticeable during the day, we didn't hear anything from there at night - the camp ground did have a transformer that was loud the first night but it was fixed by the next night.

    CONS: it is no-frills and could be packed in during summer, but that should be acceptable for the price if you are looking for an easy base camp with access to everything in Petoskey.  The bathhouse was clean but dated.  The campsites look like they did not get a lot of cleanup - I filled a grocery bag full of trash from our site and the 3 open ones next to us.  

    Ideal site would probably be as close to the lake as possible - the road in front is not travelled much since it dead ends at the campground.  There was a city facility at the end but it was not open on the weekend and we were told is pretty quiet when it is open.

    NOTE: This was our first MI campground as part of out trip from GA to MN via TN-KY-IN-MI-WI-northern MN before staying in MSP for a week, then return via MN-IA-MO-IL-KY-TN-Home.


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