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Located 10 miles SE of Kalkaska via M-72 and Sunset Trail Road.
This park is great! All campsites are spacious. The vaulted toilets are clean and the hand pumps add character to the campground!
I'm sure there are some not choice campsites in this campground, but not where we stayed. It was well worth the crazy long drive into the forest for this campground. Every site in our loop was on water. Access for fishing was just steps away and access for swimming and canoeing where yards away.
Tent camped here for 15 years as a child with my family. Love this place. The bridge, river access spots and canoe launches have all been updated. They're a little tough to climb up on. Would have been nice if they left the bridge and back landing as they were, much easier to swim and get out of the river.
I wish there was a dump station and at least 20 amp electricity at the sites so I could bring my 5th wheel without having to run a generator.
This is a nice little campground. If you want peace and quiet though it is not easy to get that here. There is no DNR supervision so people stay up all night playing music and running generators. Also there are a lot of motorcycles and dirt bikers here which run in and out of the campground all day as well as up and down the roads. It used to be very pleasant here but now it's more of a dirt bikers trail camp...
