Perch Lake Campground
2Heads up2 fires, nearest 30 mi
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $22From, per site
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 24 – October 31Open May 24 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Perch Lake Campground is located 10 miles south of Sidnaw on the Kenton Ranger District. This one loop campground provides 20 drive-in campsites that can accommodate tents, trailers and motor homes. This location provides visitors with excellent fishing, and a unique camping experience, with many of the spacious sites having lake access. Keep reading
Recreation
Besides fishing, canoeing and kayaking is popular on this lake and an excellent way to experience the beauty of this area.
Facilities
This one loop campground provides 20 drive-in campsites that can accommodate tents, trailers and motor homes. Each site offers a wood table, fire ring, and parking spur. Two sets of vault toilets, one accessible vault toilet and two hand pumps for drinking water are found within the camping loop. There is a boat ramp and parking area adjacent to the campground.
Natural Features
Perch Lake is ideal for those that want to get out on the water under their own power. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (906) 661-8870.
Nearby Attractions
Hannah-Web Lake and Winslow Lake are also located just minutes west of Perch Lake.
What the agency tells you
Camping in a developed recreation site is allowed for a period not longer than 14 days, except as otherwise posted. After this time, you must move to another campground or dispersed site for at least 24 hours. Campers must occupy the site the first night.
Eight people and 2 motorized vehicles are allowed per campsite with a maximum of one RV or camper trailer and two tents per camping site or three tents per camping site.
There is a day use fee associated with the boat landing from May 15 October 15, of $5 per day per vehicle, or an annual pass for $30 per vehicle. The annual pass covers Lake Ottawa Recreation Area, Black River Harbor Recreation Area, Marion Lake boat landing, Bobcat Lake day use and boat landing, Henry Lake, Pomeroy Lake, Norway Lake day use, Perch Lake, Lake Ste Kathryn, and Courtney Lake day use and boat landing. Please plan accordingly to ensure you can pay the daily fee at the self-registration fee tube. If you would like to purchase an annual pass, they are available from the on-site campground host. If you have additional questions, contact Camp Host, LLC at 906-661-8870.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…fire ring, and parking spur. Two sets of vault toilets, one accessible vault toilet and two hand pumps for…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…one accessible vault toilet and two hand pumps for drinking water are found within the camping…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Water access
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 · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $22 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites
All 20 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. 20 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Perch Lake | 1 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 10 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 11 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 12 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 13 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 14 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 15 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 16 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 17 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 18 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 2 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 3 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 4 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 5 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 6 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 7 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 8 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| Perch Lake | 9 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| PERCH LAKE | 19 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
| PERCH LAKE | 20 | standard nonelectric | $22 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lake Ste Kathryn CampgroundOttawa National Forest · 3.1 mi
Norway Lake CampgroundOttawa National Forest · 3.6 mi
Golden Lake CampgroundOttawa National Forest · 17 mi
Lake Ottawa CampgroundOttawa National Forest · 20 mi
Marion Lake Group SiteOttawa National Forest · 21 mi
Imp Lake CampgroundOttawa National Forest · 22 miPerch Lake Campground is located in Iron County 10 miles southeast of the town of Sidnaw on the Kenton Ranger District in the eastern half of the Ottawa National Forest. From Sidnaw larger towns of Ironwood and Marquette are within 2-hour drives.
From Sidnaw, travel south on Sidnaw Road approximately 10 miles to the campground. The road is paved for approximately 6 ½ miles and then turns to gravel.
From Iron River, take County Road 657 north approximately 15 miles, turn slight right onto FR 2130, travel approximately 9 ½ miles on FR 2130 to Sidnaw Road, turn left onto Sidnaw Road and travel approximately 2 miles 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 Covington, 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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Perch 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 →