Bay View (Hiawatha National Forest, MI)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 24All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located just off the Whitefish Bay Scenic Byway in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Bay View Campground provides a rustic opportunity to camp along the shores of Lake Superior. The campground is a perfect stop amidst many recreational opportunities available in the Sault Ste. Marie area. Visitors also enjoy exploring the Whitefish Bay National Scenic Byway all the way to the beautiful Tahquamenon Falls. Keep reading
Recreation
Miles of sandy beaches and beautiful sunsets stretch across Lake Superior, the greatest single body of fresh water in the world. Birding and sightseeing are popular pastimes, and visitors enjoy long walks along Superior's beaches.
Facilities
The rustic campground offers multiple single-family campsites for tent and RV camping. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and hand-pumped drinking water are available at several locations within the campground. Most of the sites are heavily shaded. A campground host lives at the campground and can be available to answer any questions.
Natural Features
The campground is located in Lake Superior's famous Whitefish Bay, the site of numerous historically preserved shipwrecks and lighthouse stations. The area is also a natural corridor for migratory birds.
Nearby Attractions
Tahquamenon Falls, a series of beautifully brown-colored waterfalls on the Tahquamenon River, are located just 30 miles away. The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum and Whitefish Point Lighthouse are 39 miles to the north and west while the Point Iroquois Lighthouse lies about 8 miles east. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (906) 767-1111.
Charges & Cancellations
Please cancel 7 days in advance if you need to cancel your reservation. Reserve sites cannot be transferred to walk up sites.
What the agency tells you
Click here for more information on the Hiawatha National Forest
Don't move firewood: To limit the spread of invasive tree-killing pests, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Some states have quarantines and may confiscate your firewood. Please help protect our forests from invasive species by obtaining your firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for more information.
Reservations cannot be traded it for walk-up sites.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Check OUT is at 12:00 PM Check IN is at 2:00 PM
We do not have an office at this location. It has a self pay station. Reservations cannot be changed at this location.
Please Note: One RV with tow vehicle per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged an $8 per night fee and collected at the campground if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On. Extra vehicles must fit on the parking spur at your site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 24 · 1 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets and hand-pumped drinking water are available at…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grills. Vault toilets and hand-pumped drinking water are available at several locations within the…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Waterfall, Lake, River, Beach, Coast
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Swimming
- Night sky · 149th darkest of 192 in MI
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
“Extra vehicle will be charged an $8 per night fee and collected at the campground if you did not pay for the Extra Vehicle Add On.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Please cancel 7 days in advance if you need to cancel your reservation. Reserve sites cannot be transferred to walk up sites.” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 24 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 24 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BAY VIEW | 01 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 173 ft | 173 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 02 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 123 ft | 321 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 03 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 123 ft | 199 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 04 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 123 ft | 383 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 05 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 123 ft | 140 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 06 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 123 ft | 223 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 07 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 101 ft | 273 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 08 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 70 ft | 370 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 09 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 123 ft | 233 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 10 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 70 ft | 350 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 11 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 123 ft | 194 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 173 ft | 408 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 13 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 123 ft | 254 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 14 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 123 ft | 402 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 15 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 123 ft | 282 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 16 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 123 ft | 358 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 17 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 123 ft | 241 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 18 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 140 ft | 201 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 19 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 123 ft | 375 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 20 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 123 ft | 252 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 21 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 140 ft | 185 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 22 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 173 ft | 397 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 23 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 140 ft | 227 ft | $24 |
| BAY VIEW | 24 | walk to | 140 ft | 195 ft | $21 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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From Brimley, Michigan, travel west on County Road 42/Whitefish Bay Scenic Byway for approximately 8 miles. Bay View is on the north side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Brimley, MI
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 8°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Bay View (Hiawatha National Forest, MI) is in Michigan’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Jack Bergman (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →