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This family friendly rustic campground is located near the heart of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. It's just a 10 minute drive to kayaking, hiking, or relaxing on the beautiful Lake Superior beaches.
Catchin' Crickets Campground rate is $25 per night (cash only for the campground)
Stayed here one night in early October. Had the whole campground to ourselves, except for a group of turkeys that walked through in the morning. Toilets are amazingly clean and smell like a new car compared to the filthy ones at the government run campgrounds. Nice clean graveled parking spots and recently planted trees that will be awesome cover in a few years. If we had known about this place earlier we wouldn't have wasted our money staying at the Grand Marais campground the previous night.
No power hookups, and a hand pumped well for water, no dump station, and no cell service... which is just fine by me.
When we visited, the state had 1/2 of the UP's camp grounds closed, pushing everyone to the west side of the peninsula. When I tell you that not a single campground had space.... we almost went to a hotel. Then we found Catchin' Crickets camp ground and NO ONE was there. GOLD MINE!! Eventually some new comers filled out some spots as the weekend went on, but it was a FANTASTIC site.
I spoke with the owner as he filled up the fire wood supply, and I let him know how happy we were to find the site. He literally said "Yeah, we don't take reservations. We nearly never fill up past 50% capacity. We're just here for those who don't have a plan." And let me tell you, I'm the kinda person who just gets in the car and drives.
10/10 can confirm I will be back
It’s our second time staying here. Very clean, nice camp site. Cost $25 per site. They also have a lot of woods for sale $5 per cube. Clean restrooms. It’s close to the country side roads and sometimes it noisy for the passing cars. But I definitely recommend this camp site. It’s very close the the parks, hikes, waterfalls etc.
We stayed here and it was perfect!!! Very private and it’s one of the first come first serve ones! Which is perfect for us! The bathrooms were the cleanest bathrooms at a camp I’ve ever seen! The spaces are nice! Not a lot of shade but the trees will fill out beautifully! Best part is it’s like 10 minutes out from all site seeing! There’s a cute restaurant right down the road. The gentlemen that runs the camp stopped by and it was super nice having someone check it! It made it very welcoming! The wood was well stocked and since there are not very many trees it makes it perfect for star gazing!!!!!
