Lake Michigan at St. Ignace
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 33All of them booked ahead
- Season
- – September 14Closes September 14. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lake Michigan Campground at St. Ignace provides great views and unlimited access to Lake Michigan. The area has excellent trails, winding hikers through ancient sand dunes, windswept foundations and a variety of vegetation. Keep reading
Recreation
The campsites are located between 20- to 30-foot high sand dunes and are just steps away from great body-surfing waves, that crash onto the lake's sandy beaches during commonly high winds. Lake Michigan does offer fishing, but anglers tend to prefer Brevort Lake better, for its catches of walleye, pike, bass, perch and crappie. Campers at Lake Michigan have access to the popular Sand Dunes Cross-Country Ski Trail, as well as the North Country National Scenic Trail, which connects a host of natural areas, from valleys to hilltops, prairies to forests and everything in between. Both trails offer miles of terrain, keeping hikers busy for as long as they choose.
Facilities
The campground offers many shaded and open sites for tent and RV camping. Some sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Picnic tables and campfire rings with grills are provided. Accessible vault toilets are available, as well as drinking water. Hookups are not provided. Parking spurs are comprised of grass and dirt. A trash collection bin is available at the campground and a dump station can be found at Brevort Lake.
Natural Features
The campground stretches along a bluff between the highway and the lake. Dunes, waves, sand and wind are the primary environmental factors present. Visitors enjoy watching shorebirds, like the Spotted Sandpiper, which can often be seen running up and down the beaches throughout the day.
Nearby Attractions
Brevort Lake is about five miles from the campground. St. Ignace is about 18 miles from the campground and is the closest town. 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. Reservation sites cannot be traded for walk up sites.
What the agency tells you
Be aware reservation sites are for reservations only. Even if the reservation site is empty, it does not revert to a first come first serve.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Check OUT is at 12:00 PM Check IN is at 2:00 PM
Reservation sites cannot be traded for walk up sites.
There is no 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
- 33
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 28 of 33 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with grills are provided. Accessible vault toilets are available, as well as drinking water. Hookups…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…vault toilets are available, as well as drinking water. Hookups are not provided. Parking spurs are…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 115th 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 · 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, $26 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. Reservation sites cannot be traded for 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
33 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 33 mapped sitesAll 33 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 33 of the 33 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 33 of the 33 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 217 ft | 411 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 57 ft | 273 ft | 395 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 43 ft | 243 ft | 255 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 43 ft | 286 ft | 252 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 121 ft | 310 ft | 24 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 46 ft | 302 ft | 120 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 46 ft | 256 ft | 124 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 74 ft | 232 ft | 248 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 74 ft | 235 ft | 321 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 40 ft | 274 ft | 451 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 40 ft | 238 ft | 468 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 320 ft | 599 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 305 ft | 519 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 141 ft | 219 ft | 427 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 128 ft | 244 ft | 286 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 69 ft | 331 ft | 162 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 69 ft | 377 ft | 99 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 113 ft | 372 ft | 135 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 019 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 100 ft | 328 ft | 247 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 020 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 45 ft | 280 ft | 347 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 021 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 45 ft | 315 ft | 358 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 022 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 69 ft | 265 ft | 482 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 023 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 226 ft | 450 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 265 ft | 410 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 025 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 98 ft | 259 ft | 288 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 026 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 98 ft | 306 ft | 202 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 027 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 101 ft | 323 ft | 108 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 028 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 107 ft | 307 ft | 19 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 029 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 93 ft | 261 ft | 126 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 030 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 54 ft | 194 ft | 258 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 031 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 54 ft | 239 ft | 219 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 032 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 79 ft | 217 ft | 326 ft | $26 |
| LAKE MICHIGAN AT ST. IGNACE | 033 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 172 ft | 196 ft | 497 ft | $26 |
25 of 33 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Brevoort Lake CampgroundHiawatha National Forest · 1.5 mi
Carp River CampgroundHiawatha National Forest · 13 mi
Three LakesHiawatha National Forest · 23 mi
Soldier LakeHiawatha National Forest · 26 miBay View CampgroundHiawatha National Forest · 33 mi
Bay View (Hiawatha National Forest, MI)34 miW 3853 US-2 Moran Michigan 49760
From Mackinac Bridge, take Highway 2 approximately 18 miles west to the campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for St. Ignace, MI
Typical weather
Typical September night 46°F, day 68°F.
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
Lake Michigan at St. Ignace 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 →