U.S. Forest Service · Huron National Forest · MI
Round Lake Campground and Day Use Area
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- OpenListed open; its database flags it not open
- Season
- May 3 – October 31Open May 3 through October 31
790 ftElevation
359 ftWater · Round Lake
In townSand Lake, MI
75%Tree cover
Bortle 3Night sky · 156th darkest of 192 in MI
Open May 3 through October 31Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Round Lake Campground is a wooded camping area offering a wide variety of recreation opportunities. Most of the ownership around the 91-acre lake is private. This access provides the only public access on the lake.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Recreation Enhancement Act Fee - Camping (per night): Single Site: $14.00 Day Use (per vehicle): Per Day: $5.00 Season$30
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Round LakeHuron National Forest · 0.1 mi
Monument CampgroundHuron National Forest · 6.6 mi
Rollways CampgroundHuron National Forest · 9.7 mi
South Branch Trail Camp Group SiteHuron National Forest · 12 miPine River CampgroundHuron National Forest · 16 miHorseshoe Lake Campground and Boat LaunchHuron National Forest · 19 mi
Round LakeHuron National Forest · 0.1 miMonument CampgroundHuron National Forest · 6.6 miRollways CampgroundHuron National Forest · 9.7 miSouth Branch Trail Camp Group SiteHuron National Forest · 12 miPine River CampgroundHuron National Forest · 16 miHorseshoe Lake Campground and Boat LaunchHuron National Forest · 19 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight27°Slight Chance Snow Showers10% rain
Saturday56°Sunny8% rain
Saturday Night32°Mostly Clear
Sunday64°Sunny
NWS forecast for Sand Lake, MI
Source: National Weather Service, APX forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 58°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
90°32°0°
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.
Measured at: HALE LOUD DAM, MI (USC00203529), 9 miles away and 62 ft lower
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Round Lake Campground and Day Use Area 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now. Its own recreation database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.