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Holland State Park is best known for sugar-sand beaches, beautiful sunsets, and views of the iconic “Big Red” lighthouse. The park is home to two large campgrounds, an accessible playground, opportunities for paddling and fishing, and connections to nonmotorized trails. The state park consists of separate Lake Macatawa and Lake Michigan units on the northern side of the channel connecting Lake Macatawa with Lake Michigan. A boat launch with a fish cleaning station is located 1 mile east of the park.
The park now offers two EV charging stations at no cost.
Michigan Recreation Passport is required for vehicle entry into state parks and recreation areas, state boat launches, state forest campgrounds and state trail parking lots. The Michigan Recreation Passport does not cover local, county, municipal, or metropolitan parks or recreation areas. Learn more: https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-350-79134_79210---,00.html
A Campground that's right on the beach? What's not to like about this? We stayed one night and wished we stayed a little longer. Fun town and we lucked out and had beautiful weather during our stay.
We LOVED camping here over the weekend. Beautiful views of Lake Michigan on one side and the harbor on the other. Clean modern bathtooms and showers. Super nice camp host!
My wife and two Whippets and I travel in our Airstream Class B van. This campground is near-perfect for us. This was a our first time here and we liked the simplistic layout with, essentially, a parking lot lined with spaces for RV's and 30 amp power hookup. Perfect for our rig. We would spend our time hiking trails, and around town with our dogs. When we got tired, go back to the van and watch some TV, have some drinks and take a nap. Perfect long weekend.
The beach is super nice BUT is NOT dog friendly. There isn't even a dog beach here, like you see in Warren Dunes and places like that. The officials are kind of draconian with the limitations at the beach. At sundown, they usher everyone off the beach. If you have a dog, they immediately send you away. As such, we won't be back again because it doesn't serve our needs. Aside from that, the bath house is clean and well maintained and they do a good job of keeping riff-raff in check too!
Liked staying here. Bathroom was very clean and nice quiet campgrounds. Very nice fellow campers as well. Only issues was how crowded it got at night with everyone trying to watch sunset. I figured itd be easy to set up camera gear and snap photos, but crowds started flooding in, and taking over the beach. I'm sure local people know that, and its public so I cant complain too much. It just wasnt expected by any of the 6 in our party! Still cool place and obviously popular.
We had a wonderful weekend camping for the holland tulip festival! The campground accommodated tents however you can’t stake it in the ground. Each site does not have grills or fire pits but there are a few that anyone in the campground can use on the beach. It is in a great location and you can walk to see beautiful sunsets on the beach! The bathrooms are clean and a close walk!
