This is a very well kept up, clean, family campground. It has cabins, RV sites, and tent sites. It’s right by the Pere Marquette River for great fishing, and the campground has a really nice pool if you’re not into swimming in the lakes or river. Very modern, good for parties, events, etc.

Muskegon State Park is one we have visited a couple times and thoroughly enjoyed. It provides one of the most beautiful beaches Michigan has to offer, and we enjoyed hiking several trails throughout the park. We haven’t camped there yet, but mostly that’s due to the fact that it’s seemingly a popular campground as every time I try to reserve a site it’s always full. Must be for good reason, and upon my reconnaissance of the campground which features sites within a couple hundred feet walking distance to the beach, I would agree. I am really eager to finally land a camping spot there next year. I know there is top notch fishing and kayaking in the area, as well. Muskegon is absolutely a outdoorsman’s paradise. 

We camped at the rustic sites, and they were absolutely wonderful. Sleeping Bear Dunes would be rivaling Wilderness State Park and/or Hiawatha NF on the Lake Michigan coast in the UP as my favorite, #1 spot I’ve ever camped/visited. Most of the state parks in Michigan along the Lake Michigan coast have cool sand dunes, and they’re all relatively similar in their spectacular beauty and overall area they cover. Sleeping Bear Dunes is on a completely different level. I’d say it’s area is about 10 times the square mileage as most other parks along the coast. It is massive, provides the ultimate dune hikers dream hike, and everyone loves the sand dune climb. We only spent 3 days there on our summer expedition, and I left feeling like I missed so much…this is a place where I’d want to go back and post up for a 1-2 week deal, and just be there. Sleeping Bear Dunes is truly a magical place, and it’s obvious now after visiting why it’s renowned in countless blogs, magazines, reviews, etc. as one of the most beautiful places on Earth, not just America. I absolutely cannot wait to go back. I think I might actually go up there this winter for an adventure and see what the winter life is all about up there. Also, the whole Leelanau area is rich in Native American history, which I would encourage anyone visiting the area to brush up on and research a little bit about for an optimal spiritual experience.

I camped here for one night while I was on a business trip up North, and unfortunately didn’t get to experience much, but I did some recon and I am super eager to go back. This campground is all rustic, but it is by far one of the most beautiful campgrounds I’ve ever seen. The campground is at the tip of the Leelanau peninsula, there are some amazing hiking trails in the area, and I noticed a lot of artists like to come here and do their thing. The morning I woke up to pack and leave, I saw a lot of artists around with easels and sketchbooks being inspired by the beauty which this area provides. I’ve been bugging my wife about it ever since I went there, I can’t wait to go back and really camp there.

Really nice campground with a few cabins on Lake Michigan. Campsites are about 1/2 mile walk or less to the beach. Nice facilities, and overall kept up very well. Weko Beach is an awesome beach, and we frequent there. There aren’t any hiking trails or anything like that, but Warren Dunes, Grand Mere, and various other nature preserves and bike trails are all within striking distance. We spent our Halloween there last year; best Halloween ever!

We stayed here on our first night of our 10 day expedition, and it really is a beautiful campground. If you’re looking to get away from people and actually be in some wilderness, this is not the campground for you. But it is a great place to camp if you’re looking for a pitstop to camp while traveling further north, and it would be an awesome campground to have a birthday party or family reunion, group event or something like that. It would be ideal for that sort of thing. We really enjoyed our stay there, and I would go back again. The campground is also right within walking distance to the water and beaches of Traverse Bay, and you’re within striking distance of as much shopping as you could handle in Traverse City, one of the most beautiful cities in America.

I stayed here for a couple nights while I was on a business trip up that way, because camping is way cooler than staying at hotels. It’s all rustic sites, but the campground is nice. There’s good hiking, an awesome disc golf course, and the lake right there with boat launches for fishing. If you’re not into fishing or disc golf, you might be happier elsewhere, but I love those two things, so I want to go back and visit again. I did manage to get an enjoyable little hike the morning I packed to leave before work, and it was enjoyable.

This was a really awesome campground we found kind of last minute when things didn’t work out at the other place we were trying to camp, and we were not upset about it at all. We actually we’re happy our plans fell through, because the site was better than the one we were trying to get at another park. 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! We went and tried, but unfortunately didn’t see any elk. I think it was mostly due to my 7 and 10 year old talking too much, and being too loud, but we’re just glad they enjoy the hike! We’d camp here again, and we recommend it to you, too! You’re also within striking distance of the Call of the Wild museum in Gaylord, which I high recommend, as well!

We visited this park one day on our 10 expedition, found some Petoskey stones on our hunt, and had an amazing swim to close out our evening witnessing one of the most magnificent sunsets I’ve ever seen. My one “thumbs down” about the place is that there is absolutely no dog beach at all. Boo to that, but other than that, the beach was beautiful, nice hiking trails, with nearby nature preserves for more hiking.

This campground was just pure magic! Our site was right on Brevoort Lake, the campsite was absolutely gorgeous and provided a good amount of privacy, and it is one of the best sites I’ve ever camped at, if not thee best so far. We spent half of our 10 day summer expedition at this campground, and we’d happily come again! It was a very special experience we will never forget! Thank you to the campground hosts for being so kind and helpful!

This is a cool campground to come hang out at one of the most beautiful beaches in Michigan, and provides the unique experience of actually camping ON the beach, which is something you don’t get to do with 95% of the campgrounds on Michigan’s coast. Right across the Grand River a really nice nature preserve to escape for a hike, but there isn’t much in the way of hiking at this particular state park. The showers and facilities though are of the cleanest and well kept in all of Michigan’s state parks.

We visited Wilderness State Park on our last day of our 10 day expedition, and I really just wish we could’ve stayed an extra day or two, honestly! The night before, we had an incredible time at the Headlands International Dark Sky Observatory the night before right down the street, and the next day we enjoyed a beautiful scenic hike through the forest at Wilderness State Park followed by a surreal, almost tropical like feeling swim at Sturgeon Bay. With the shallow sand bars, it was some of the warmest water we’ve swam in all summer, and I can only imagine how beautiful it is here in the fall! Really hoping to make it make in October!

Well we didn’t camp there (we were already camping at Brevort down the road), we did spend almost 2 full days there of our 10 day expedition up North. We are absolutely going to camp there the next time we visit the UP. It is definitely one of my new favorite state parks, with breathtaking views of the Mackinac Bridge, beautiful well marked hiking trails, and some of the most awesome campsites I’ve ever seen! We had a blast hiking all the trails, meeting new friends, enjoying the scenic views, and hunting for stones along the shore! Can’t wait to visit again!! 

I just moved here with my family about 10 minutes down the road from Warren Dunes, and Warren Dunes is one of the main reasons why we moved here. I’ve been coming to this park since I was a kid, and we usually camp there once or twice a year. This year I think we’ve camped there at least 10 times now that we’re right down the street! I’m 36 now, so it’s safe to say that I pretty much know the park like the back of my hand, and it truly has become a home away from home. Actually I prefer being there over my main home. 😁Warren Dunes provides one of the most beautiful beaches on Michigan’s West Coast (and in the world, for that matter) where you can kayak, board, etc. with rentals available, there are miles of incredible hiking trails with dune and forest terrain, and it’s open all year around, so you can camp there in the winter and enjoy winter activities like cross country skiing and viewing the amazing frozen waves! Some of the greatest memories of my life have been created at Warren Dunes, and we continue to create magical and unforgettable memories there today as it is indeed, a home away from home!