Round Lake
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:27 UTC
- A night
- $14When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 33In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Round Lake Campground offers a scenic, rustic, wooded camping area offering a wide variety of recreation opportunities in the Huron-Manistee National Forest in Michigan. Keep reading
Recreation
There is a wide variety of recreational opportunities located in and around the campground. Anglers can fish for sunfish, bass and pike while campers can relax at the sandy beach. The campground has a gravel boat ramp.
Facilities
Round Lake Campground has 33 sites in two camping loops. Approximately a quarter of the sites in this campground have access to water. Amenities at the campground include vault toilets and garbage service along with picnic tables and campfire rings at each campsite.
Natural Features
Round Lake's 91-acres is mostly surrounded by private land. Round Lake Campground provides the only public access to the lake. Nearby Sand Lake Picnic and Swimming Area are located on the 248-acre Sand Lake. The beach and picnic area provide the only public access to Sand Lake.
Nearby Attractions
The campground is located in the village of Sand Lake, MI and groceries and fuel are nearby. Lumberman's Monument Visitor's Center is less than 15 miles from the campground. There are hiking trails nearby, a picnic day use area on nearby Sand Lake, bird watching, and hunting opportunities.
What the agency tells you
Your permit is subject to forfeit and a violation notice may be issued for failing to follow these rules: • Occupancy limits apply to your site • Keep all camping equipment and vehicles within your designated camp site. • Keep all vehicles, trailers and RVs on camping spur. • You must occupy your site within 24 hours of the start of your reservation. Contact the Forest Service to request a late arrival or your site may be forfeited. • Quiet hours are from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM, and keep noise reasonable all other times. • Pets must be on leash at all times. • If potable water is available at your site, please be sure to wash your dishes and clothes away from the water source. If watering livestock or pets, please water them away from the water source. This will help protect the water source from contamination. • Pack it in, pack it out. Leave the site clean for the next campers. Do not leave trash in fire rings, and do not burry or burn trash or recyclables. • Be careful with fire. Do NOT leave hot campfires unattended. Make sure your ashes are cool to the touch before you leave. • You may use downed wood for firewood. Keep fires within the fire ring. • Fireworks and use of fireworks are NOT permitted. • Do not tie/tack anything to standing trees, including (but not limited to) horses, pets, laundry lines, garbage bags. • ORV’s may only be operated on trails signed as open for their use. ORV’s may not be used within campgrounds. • 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 • Other rules and regulations apply. For questions, late arrivals, or early departures please contact Lumberman’s Monument at 989-362-8961, or visit the Huron-Manistee National Forests website www.fs.usda.gov/hmnf.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 33
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Amenities at the campground include vault toilets and garbage service along with picnic tables and…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:27 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 10
What you actually pay
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Round Lake closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Round Lake Campground and Day Use AreaHuron National Forest · 0.1 mi
- Monument CampgroundHuron National Forest · 6.7 mi · 19 sites
- Pine River CampgroundHuron National Forest · 16 mi
- Horseshoe Lake Campground and Boat LaunchHuron National Forest · 19 mi
recreation.gov availability, read 15:27 UTC · 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 28 mapped sitesAll 33 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. 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.
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.
| ROUND LAKE | 01 | standard nonelectric | 156 ft | 476 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 02 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 314 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 03 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 221 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 04 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 268 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 05 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 130 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 06 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 185 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 07 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 86 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 08 | standard nonelectric | 141 ft | 134 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 09 | standard nonelectric | $14 | ||
| ROUND LAKE | 10 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 324 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 11 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 351 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 12 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 275 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 13 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 373 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 14 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 460 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 15 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 378 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 16 | standard nonelectric | $14 | ||
| ROUND LAKE | 17 | standard nonelectric | $14 | ||
| ROUND LAKE | 18 | standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 199 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 19 | standard nonelectric | $14 | ||
| ROUND LAKE | 20 | standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 232 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 21 | standard nonelectric | $14 | ||
| ROUND LAKE | 22 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 297 ft | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 23 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 350 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 24 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 306 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 25 | standard nonelectric | 107 ft | 178 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 26 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 97 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 27 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 136 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 28 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 234 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 29 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 263 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 30 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 347 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 31 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 389 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 32 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 449 ftIndian Lake | $14 |
| ROUND LAKE | 33 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 481 ft | $14 |
25 of 33 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Monument CampgroundHuron National Forest · 6.7 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 miFrom the west, leave M-55 approximately 6 miles east of its intersection with M-65, turn north on Sand Lake Road for 3 miles to Indian Lake Road. Turn left and travel 2.5 miles to Latham Road, then left for 1/2 mile.
From the east, leave M-55 at its intersection with Plank Road near Tawas City and follow Plank Road for 7 miles. Curve left on Indian Lake Road for 1/4 mile, then turn right on Latham Road for 1/2 mile.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Sand Lake, MI
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 10°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
Round Lake 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 →