Little Bay de Noc
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $26From, per site
- Sites
- 38All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 15 – October 8Open May 15 through October 8
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Little Bay Campground provides a quiet respite from more developed campgrounds in the area. It has long been a favorite for visitors seeking solitude. Beautiful sunsets can be seen over the glistening water of the Little Bay de Noc, and campers enjoy water activities on the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
The bay is widely recognized as one of the finest walleye fisheries in the country. The Hunter's Point paved boat ramp is located less than a mile from the entrance of the campground. Other than fishing, visitors enjoy non-motorized boating and swimming, or simply enjoying the beach. A variety of hiking trails are also within a couple miles of the campground.
Facilities
The campground offers multiple single-family sites and two large group sites, available for tent and RV camping. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are also provided. A day-use picnic area is equipped with tables and grills. An adjacent open grassy area is available for large recreational gatherings. The picnic area is also adjacent to the swimming beach and boat ramp.
Natural Features
The campground sits on the shore of Little Bay de Noc, on the north end of Lake Michigan. A group camping area is separated from the other sites with oak, hemlock and hardwood trees, providing a relatively private camping experience. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (906) 767-1111.
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 · 8
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).
Check out the forest's campground description for specific information to Fish Your 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.
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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 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…campfire rings with grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are also provided. A day-use…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…grills. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are also provided. A day-use picnic area is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Night sky · 182nd darkest of 192 in MI
- Bortle 4
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 · 14
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.
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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
38 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 37 mapped sitesAll 38 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 37 of the 38 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. 38 of the 38 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| GROUP | 015 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 775 ft | 244 ft | 1,132 ft | $80 |
| GROUP | 016 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 298 ft | 184 ft | 1,905 ft | $80 |
| MAYWOOD | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 125 ft | 464 ft | 345 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 002 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 115 ft | 439 ft | 231 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 003 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 108 ft | 446 ft | 131 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 004 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 108 ft | 432 ft | 115 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 109 ft | 416 ft | 183 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 102 ft | 355 ft | 281 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 329 ft | 319 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 008 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 84 ft | 342 ft | 233 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 378 ft | 149 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 010 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 96 ft | 383 ft | 63 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 100 ft | 366 ft | 84 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 337 ft | 176 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 308 ft | 269 ft | $26 |
| MAYWOOD | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 323 ft | 359 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 108 ft | 590 ft | 1,914 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 018 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 108 ft | 485 ft | 1,876 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 120 ft | 442 ft | 1,760 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 020 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 140 ft | 462 ft | 1,624 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 021 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 146 ft | 495 ft | 1,486 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 146 ft | 518 ft | 1,350 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 023 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 312 ft | 720 ft | 1,138 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 024 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 152 ft | 410 ft | 1,019 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 025 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 138 ft | 444 ft | 880 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 026 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 116 ft | 495 ft | 764 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 116 ft | 500 ft | 650 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 028 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 128 ft | 518 ft | 531 ft | $26 |
| OAKS | 029 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 141 ft | 556 ft | 441 ft | $26 |
| TWIN SPRINGS | 030 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 127 ft | 128 ft | 414 ft | $26 |
| TWIN SPRINGS | 031 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 127 ft | 128 ft | 321 ft | $26 |
| TWIN SPRINGS | 032 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 131 ft | 139 ft | 236 ft | $26 |
| TWIN SPRINGS | 033 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 131 ft | 178 ft | 186 ft | $26 |
| TWIN SPRINGS | 034 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 131 ft | 235 ft | 216 ft | $26 |
| TWIN SPRINGS | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 112 ft | 258 ft | 324 ft | $26 |
| TWIN SPRINGS | 036 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 112 ft | 244 ft | 435 ft | $26 |
| TWIN SPRINGS | 037 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 129 ft | 240 ft | 557 ft | $26 |
| TWIN SPRINGS | 038 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $26 |
25 of 38 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Flowing Well CampgroundHiawatha National Forest · 15 mi
Chicago Lake CampsitesHiawatha National Forest · 23 mi
Camp Cook CampsiteHiawatha National Forest · 24 mi
Camp Seven Lake CampgroundHiawatha National Forest · 26 mi
Gooseneck Lake CampsitesHiawatha National Forest · 26 mi
Lyman Lake CampsitesHiawatha National Forest · 27 miFrom Rapid River, drive 2 miles east to County Road 513. Continue 6 miles south to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Gladstone, MI
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 58°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 36°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
Little Bay de Noc 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 →