Union River Big Bear Campground

This is a beautiful campground right next to the Porcupine Mountain Wilderness State Park in the U P of Michigan. After reading the reviews of the Union Bay Campground in the park, I'm glad I could get a reservation here!

 This is a well established campground. There's 50 sites with water & electricity, but no sewer. There is a dump station.

 Some sites have more room than others. We had site 16, which was roomy. Site 20 is also roomy & shady.

 The best sites over look the Union River. Sites 27/28 are nice & site 29 is outstanding. There are a few pull throughs. 

Any of the perimeter sites would be good. These have a woods view in the back.

Avoid sites 24A/45&46. these sites are very near the dump station, with 45 right by it. There's a tall fence separating you from it. 

The bathrooms are beautiful! Clean with hot showers. Decorated nicely, with music also. There's a community fire pit on the front lawn with swings & chairs. A nice view of Lake Superior. The sunsets are outstanding. There's a free beach across the street. You need to take the stairs down to it. Don't try climbing down the rocks! 

I didn't have much luck looking for Yooper Stones.

The gift shop is small, but has some nice things. 

Out of the 3 campgrounds we stayed at this trip, this was our favorite!

Like the title, clean and quiet campground. Same price as state park with more evenly spaced sites. Very friendly and helpful staff. Great view of lake! Stopped for one night but would stay again if in area.

Campground is surrounded by trees which provide a lot of shade, inner circle sights are close together, some unique set ups but the outside sides are spacious..

Electric hook up with water fill station and dump.

Bathhouse is centrally located

Staff/ owner very friendly and helpful.

Store on property sells wood, ice and other goods.

Cross the street and you arrive at Lake Superior

20 minutes to town 10 miles to lake of the clouds

Book early, these sites go fast!

Great location, some of the best kept facilities, nice sites, but rules are strict(COMPLY!), owners are on you like a hawk to see fit you don’t break one, and they become outright unreasonable and rude—even for the slightest, and easily correctable misunderstanding(versus flagrant violation), which can ruin the experience, unfortunately. The owners are not tolerant of visitors, interrogating them at check in, and threatening to tow cars away if not out by the time required. They refer to other campgrounds in the area as“Siberian refuge camps.” It’s their right and choice to be this way. Make sure you know the rules and have back-up plans if you happen to be caught up in any misunderstanding or honest error about“the rules,” which they will certainly let you know about and automatically escalate.

Found this place by chance. Amazing location across from Lake Superior. The best sunsets I’ve seen west of the pacific.

A bit cramped But clean and friendly

This place in the fall is magic. Beautifully wooded, many sites have a view of Lake Superior. You can hear the waves at night. Some of the sites are a tight squeeze if your rig is large, opt for the pull-through. Don’t expect to do work or school, service and internet up there is practically non existent. Instead, walk the shore of Superior, enjoy the all gorgeous sights the Porcupine Mountains have to offer just a short drive away. Bathrooms and showers were clean and well kept.

Campground sites are right next to each other other than that it's a great campground!

Not enough good words for the Porcupine Mountains. Views of huge hills sloping into Lake Superior are visible from the entrance. We visited the iconic Lake of the Clouds and hiked to other great sites in the park. My family and I toured the area and spent the night. I only wish we'd have had more time there. Campground owners were very helpful and kind.

Will return goods location

This campground saved the day when we visited the Porcupine Mountains. We might have skipped the step about doing enough research, and we arrived after a 10 hour drive to find that everything in the backcountry and campground were 100% full. I wouldn’t really rave about much else, other than the view of the beach and the fact that it’s really close to hiking in the park. The entire grounds are just a large grassy area and a lot of the sites were a little soggy when we were there. BUT, like I said, it totally saved our asses, so it gets 4 stars! Oh, and the bathrooms were SO CLEAN! Like epic clean👌

We decided to go on a two week no plans but travel trip and found this campground by mistake and so happy we did. Super nice family-owned location with showers, wifi and so much more. You are just a 1-minute walk from the lake. You for sure will not be disappointed with the decision to stay here.