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Newport's wilderness experience offers over 2,300 acres of forest on 11 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, 30 miles of hiking trails, and backpack camping as a quiet alternative to bustling Door County. At the far end of the Door Peninsula, Newport is also designated as a Dark Sky Park, a perfect destination for stargazing.
Newport State Park offers rustic, backpack camping for visitors. Camping is allowed in designated campsites only.
Newport has 17 backpack (hike-in) campsites, including one group site. All sites can be reserved. Campers must hike or bike in all gear and supplies. There are no carts available at the park. There are a few amenities at the sites, including a pit toilet, fire ring with flip-up grill, a lock box for food and a bench or two. Water is available at the park office or at a solar pump near the picnic shelter by Lot 3 (seasonally). There are no shower facilities at the park. All garbage must be carried out of all campsites.
Such a beautiful park. Love the campsites!! We stayed at site 15. One of us paddled in and the other hiked in.
Newport State Park is a really dark sky, we didn’t have the opportunity to see the stars because was all cloudy at night with all the head-lights off that was dark… We camp on Site 3 and I truly liked that location, my objective was to take some pictures of the Milkyway but wasn’t possible at that time, the Site have nice rocks by the beach special for a foreground by the Lake, we hope to go back and try again!
The sites are for camping with very little commodities, to get to the Site 3 took a walk of one mile from the main parking lot (No. 3) and my family was with me so it took a lot of things to take to the site, family were rookies with the walking and camping by the days we enjoyed the warblers of the place.
Here are some pictures of the Site 3.
There is a pit toilet (warning they don’t maintain it on regular basis), not potable water on sites at least on number 3 & 4.
Place is very quiet! (Not likely with 4 kid’s with you 😛 )
Not shower room in the whole park!
Gorgeous park! The hike-in campsites are nice and the trails to get to them are well maintained. Most of the campsites are right on the lake, so you get great views of the sky! It is a dark sky park, and when the clouds clear you can see so many stars, including the Milky Way.
Beautiful park designated as a Dark Sky Park from the International Dark-Sky Association. Our Canon camera did not do justice in capturing the beauty of the Milky Way. Hike in only campsites that are also on the water. Our site was surrounded by wild raspberries!!!
Beach and dark sky viewing area accessible to everyone.
Awesome park! It was so quiet it was almost scary! I got there a little too late so I didn’t have the opportunity to explore like I wanted to but, I’m excited to visit this park again.
