Pete's Lake Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24–$26Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 48All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Petes Lake Campground, located in the center of Michigan's Hiawatha National Forest, is surrounded by several lakes and offers excellent hiking, biking, fishing, boating and more. Snuggled amongst mixed hardwood trees, the campground offers a swimming beach and day-use picnic area away from the hustle and bustle of city life. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors enjoy a variety of water-related recreation opportunities. The campground also has fishing pier next to the day-use area. Anglers can expect healthy populations of northern pike, bass, walleye and perch in the lake. The nine-mile Bruno's Run Trail, which winds its way past a host of small lakes in the area, passes directly through the campground and is a popular trail for hiking and biking, as well as snowshoeing and cross-country skiing in the winter.
Facilities
The campground offers multiple spacious and forested private campsites for tent and RV camping. A few sites overlook the lake. Each site is equipped with tables and campfire rings and about half of the sites have access to a grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A shaded day-use picnic area at the campground offers multiple tables and benches right on the lake shore. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are also provided in the picnic area, as well as a fairly large parking area.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on the upper peninsula of Michigan, on the shores of the 190-acre Petes Lake. It sits amid rolling hills that are forested with a variety of deciduous and conifer trees. Many of the campsites are shaded and private.
Nearby Attractions
Big Island, Fish and Straits lakes are all within 25 miles of the campground. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (906) 767-1111.
What the agency tells you
No lifeguard is on duty at the beach; swim at your own risk
Off-road vehicle use is not permitted inside the campground
Use only dead and downed firewood for campfires
Everything else this campground posts · 10
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.
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
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
- 48 · 2 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Paved pads
- 4 of 48
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…sites have access to a grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A shaded day-use…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…to a grill. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A shaded day-use picnic area at the…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 93rd 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 · 17
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, $24–$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
48 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 47 mapped sitesAll 48 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. 46 of the 48 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.
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 152 ft | 287 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 111 ft | 286 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 100 ft | 285 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 100 ft | 304 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 112 ft | 227 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 87 ft | 252 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 329 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 103 ft | 590 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 89 ft | 620 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 103 ft | 518 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 89 ft | 604 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 130 ft | 481 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 116 ft | 435 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 124 ft | 406 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 487 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 105 ft | 460 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 159 ft | 386 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 106 ft | 528 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 106 ft | 624 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 135 ft | 824 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 121 ft | 718 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 121 ft | 833 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 141 ft | 836 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 120 ft | 755 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 120 ft | 873 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 132 ft | 805 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 132 ft | 917 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 131 ft | 897 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 131 ft | 776 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 126 ft | 739 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 126 ft | 864 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 035 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 126 ft | 735 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 036 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 164 ft | 822 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 038 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 109 ft | 638 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 040 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 109 ft | 535 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 041 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 127 ft | 486 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 14D | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 116 ft | 549 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 1AD | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 272 ft | 224 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 2A | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 171 ft | 170 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 37D | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 132 ft | 746 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 39D | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 122 ft | 618 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 3A | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | $24–$26 | ||
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 4A | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 175 ft | 142 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 5A | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 112 ft | 115 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 6A | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 136 ft | 171 ft | $24–$26 |
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 7A | tent only nonelectric | 93 ft | 131 ft | ||
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 8A | tent only nonelectric | 93 ft | 133 ft | ||
| PETES LAKE CAMPGROUND | 8D | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 141 ft | 458 ft | $24–$26 |
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 48 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Ewing Point CampsiteHiawatha National Forest · 0.8 mi
McKeever CabinHiawatha National Forest · 0.8 mi
Widewaters CampgroundHiawatha National Forest · 1.6 mi
Council Lake CampsitesHiawatha National Forest · 2.6 mi
Cookson Lake CampsitesHiawatha National Forest · 2.8 mi
Island LakeHiawatha National Forest · 3.9 miFrom Munising, Michigan, go approximately 3 miles east on State Route 28 to Highway 13 at Wetmore. Travel south on Highway 13 about 10 miles to Forest Service Road 2173. Turn left and drive about a half-mile to the road to Petes Lake Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Munising, MI
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 52°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 11°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
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
Pete's 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 →