Camp Seven Lake Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $26–$58Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 38All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 9 – October 8Open May 9 through October 8
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Camp Seven Lake Campground neighbors the 60-acre Camp Seven Lake, which offers visitors a place to swim, boat and fish. The excellent location, beautiful setting and many available activities make the campground a perfect place to spend a day, the weekend or longer vacation. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating is popular among visitors to the Camp Seven Lake area, and anglers looking to find that perfect spot on the lake. Smallmouth bass, bluegills and perch make up the most popular catches. The 2-mile Van Winkle Lake loop trail leads hikers to a spectacular paper birch stand overlooking quiet Van Winkle Lake. A variety of waterfowl and wetland wildlife can be spotted along the trail. For a more relaxing stroll, the beach at Camp Seven Lake boasts a paved walking trail.
Facilities
The campground offers multiple accessible single-family campsites, available for tent and RV camping. For the most part, each site is shaded and private and some are right on the lake. A few sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings; only a few have grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A group picnic area can accommodate up to 25 people and offers tables, a campfire circle and a grill.
Natural Features
The campground is adjacent to Camp Seven Lake, which is situated in the lower third of the Hiawatha National Forest, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The area is home to many bodies of water and plentiful mixed hardwood forests. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (906) 767-1111.
Nearby Attractions
The town of Garden Corners is about 20 miles from the campground, on the shores of Lake Michigan.
What the agency tells you
Two pets per site
No switching sites upon arrival
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Reserved Sites will be held until checkout time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of the second day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests.
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
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.
Click here for more information on the Hiawatha National Forest
Hiawatha National Forest - West Day Use Fees: Day Use $8.00 Day Use Annual Pass $40.00
Check OUT is at 12:00 PM Check IN is at 2:00 PM
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 38 · 1 group
- Hookups
- 12 electric
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…only a few have grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A group picnic…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A group picnic area can accommodate…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 87th darkest of 192 in MI
- Bortle 2
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 · 16
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 rates for this season, $26–$58 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.
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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
39 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sites2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 39 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 37 of the 39 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 91 ft | 357 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 76 ft | 423 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 76 ft | 366 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 83 ft | 407 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 85 ft | 352 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 75 ft | 409 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 75 ft | 347 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 89 ft | 413 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 87 ft | 355 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 87 ft | 425 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 340 ft | $26 | ||
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 340 ft | $26 | ||
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 013 Host | host pad | 60 ft | 91 ft | 444 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 014 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 90 ft | 469 ft | $30–$58 |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 91 ft | 393 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 016D | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 104 ft | 468 ft | $30–$58 |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 90 ft | 412 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 018 | standard electric | 50 ft | 50 amp | 76 ft | 448 ft | $30–$58 |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 76 ft | 372 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 020 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 84 ft | 385 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 021 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 84 ft | 465 ft | $30–$58 |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 022 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 119 ft | 232 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 023 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 96 ft | 225 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 024 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 96 ft | 203 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 025 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 161 ft | 250 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 026 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 159 ft | 231 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 027 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 108 ft | 208 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 028 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 103 ft | 202 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 029 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 103 ft | 203 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 030 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 107 ft | 205 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 031 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 126 ft | 201 ft | $26 | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 032 | group standard electric | 60 ft | 50 amp | 105 ft | 748 ft | |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 033 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 105 ft | 657 ft | $30–$58 |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 034 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | $30–$58 | ||
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 035 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 139 ft | 725 ft | $30–$58 |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 036 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 720 ft | $30–$58 |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 037 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 64 ft | 784 ft | $30–$58 |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 038 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 33 ft | 752 ft | $30–$58 |
| CAMP SEVEN LAKE | 039 | standard electric | 50 ft | 30 amp | 33 ft | 784 ft | $30–$58 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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.
25 of 39 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Gooseneck Lake CampsitesHiawatha National Forest · 0.4 mi
Lyman Lake CampsitesHiawatha National Forest · 1.2 mi
Camp Cook CampsiteHiawatha National Forest · 2.0 mi
Jackpine Lake CampsitesHiawatha National Forest · 2.0 mi
Carr Lake CampsiteHiawatha National Forest · 2.4 mi
Bear Lake CampsiteHiawatha National Forest · 2.6 miThe campground is 8 miles east of Forest Highway 13 and County Road 442. Forest Highway 13 runs between Highway 2 and State Route 28.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Manistique, MI
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 55°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 35°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Camp Seven 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 →