Bob Lake Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 36 mi
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $14From, per site
- Season
- May 24 – October 31Open May 24 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Bob Lake Campground, located in Houghton County, is 18 miles southeast of Ontonagon, MI, in the Ontonagon Ranger District. This campground features a single loop with 17 campsites which are spaced with natural vegetation for screening. Many of the sites are situated near the lake. These drive-in sites can accommodate tents, trailers or motor homes. Each site offers a wooden picnic table, fire ring, lantern post and parking spur. The camping loop contains three vault toilets, one of which is accessible. Drinking water is provided by a hand pump which is located near the campground entrance. Keep reading
Adjacent to the campground are the Day Use Picnic area, a boat landing with a parking area, and the trailhead to the 1.2 mile long Beaver Lodge Interpretive Trail. Bob Lake is a shallow lake with depths averaging 3 to 10 feet with deepest at 17 feet. Walleye, small mouth bass, and perch are to be had for fishermen from shore or boat.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…spur. The camping loop contains three vault toilets, one of which is accessible. Drinking water is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…toilets, one of which is accessible. Drinking water is provided by a hand pump which is located near…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($14), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Norway Lake CampgroundOttawa National Forest · 20 mi
Lake Ste Kathryn CampgroundOttawa National Forest · 21 mi
Perch Lake CampgroundOttawa National Forest · 24 mi
Marion Lake Group SiteOttawa National Forest · 28 mi
Imp Lake CampgroundOttawa National Forest · 32 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mass City, MI
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 53°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 34°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Bob Lake Campground 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 →