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01-21-2008, 05:22 PM
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Where do you like to camp in Michigan and why?
I know it is almost zero degrees outside  but I am getting cabin fever! Where do you like to go camping? Why is it your favorite?
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01-21-2008, 05:31 PM
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When I was a kid we used to go to Otsego Lake state park near Gaylord for our main vacation. It was and I assume still is a great campground for a family. The lots are a nice size and the lake is nice. The only state I have seen that has state park campgrounds as good as we have in Michigan is New York state.
For primitive camping, I like DH Day in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore just south of Glen Arbor. It's pretty quiet, even when it's full and in a lovely spot. We live in Traverse City, so it was convenient as well. I haven't been since my kids went away to school though.
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01-21-2008, 06:46 PM
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I really like Muskallonge State park. Quiet park the times I have been there and right on Muskallonge lake, right across the road from Lake Superior.
Otsego Lake state park is where we used to go all the time just for something different to do when I lived in Gaylord. Would hate to guess how many times I have slept there over the years.
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01-21-2008, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by spedteach
I know it is almost zero degrees outside but I am getting cabin fever! Where do you like to go camping? Why is it your favorite?
Thanks,
Leisa |
The Sylvania Wilderness area (19,000 acres) in the Ottawa National Forest offers back country camping. It is 7 miles Southeast of Watersmeet, Gogebic county, Michigan. Access is by foot or canoe.
A great area for rustic camping and seclusion. Fish, canoe, explore virgin forests, visit nearby Bond Falls located 10 miles North of Watersmeet on US-45. Or explore the mysterious Paulding Light which was featured in a book titled: Michigan Mysteries. Light is 4 miles North of Watersmeet on US-45. Turn left on Robbins Pond Road. |
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01-21-2008, 09:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Bydand
I really like Muskallonge State park. Quiet park the times I have been there and right on Muskallonge lake, right across the road from Lake Superior.
Otsego Lake state park is where we used to go all the time just for something different to do when I lived in Gaylord. Would hate to guess how many times I have slept there over the years.
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That is a very very nice area -- you can get to many waterfalls and many very scenic trails from there and it's a very nice campground.
They should lower the cost of camping in state parks though -- it adds up pretty fast especially for people from other states. You have to wonder why some states charge just $11 per night and no other fee. |
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01-23-2008, 10:45 AM
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Muskallonge lake state park is my fav. Second would be Fort wilkins state park on the tip of the Keweenaw pennisula.
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01-23-2008, 03:29 PM
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Pentwater and Ludington are nice for lakeside/beach camping.....
I also like Manistee National Forest
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01-23-2008, 03:37 PM
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Sliver lake dunes. Just becasue it is the only place that we have camped so far.
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01-23-2008, 03:42 PM
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Pentwater and Ludington are nice for lakeside/beach camping.....
I also like Manistee National Forest
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I agree, even though I have never camped at either of them. I was born and raised just a few miles from the Ludington State Park and that is "my park" in that as a family we spend quite a bit of time there during the year usually. And look forward to starting back up again in June when we get back home. Every 4th of July for years we have spent on the beach at Pentwater watching the fireworks with friends. Both of these parks are just like "comfort food" for my whole being. Just a place to relax and walk the trails, with plenty of places at the Ludington one to get away from everybody else in the area. |
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01-23-2008, 06:19 PM
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Best place hands down is pigon river state park on cornwall floodings. You have to have a boat to get to the good place to camp but the bass fishing is the best. I have never been skunked.
That said, I bet that the traffic out camping this year will be very low.
People I know up in gaylord area is so dead and getting worse.
burnside rv just went out of business in gaylord, and I am told by people who live there that there are more and more going out every day.
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