Soldier Lake
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 44All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
A quiet, relaxing campground with campsites nestled in the pines surrounding Soldier Lake in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The campground provides a feeling of remoteness but is still close to roads that lead to some of the best sightseeing the area has to offer. Keep reading
Recreation
Non-motorized boating is allowed on Soldier Lake. Swimming is also a popular activity. Two sandy beaches are found within the campground and day use areas. The North Country National Scenic Trail, which winds through several northern states, can be accessed from the day use area.
Facilities
The rustic campground offers shaded single-family sites for tent and RV camping. Each site is equipped with a table and a campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. No hookups are available. The campground also has two large day-use picnic areas with tables and grills. A sheltered picnic area is equipped with a fireplace. The picnic area has vault toilets and drinking water.
Natural Features
The campground surrounds 15-acre Soldier Lake. A scenic forest of pine, aspen and maple trees covers the area.
Nearby Attractions
The closest town is Strongs, 7 miles west. Services available include a fuel station, restaurants, and a general store. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (906) 767-1111.
Charges & Cancellations
Please cancel 7 days in advance for reservation sites. Reservation sites cannot be transferred to walk-in sites.
What the agency tells you
Click here for more information on the Hiawatha 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.
Reservations cannot be traded for walk up sites.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Check OUT is at 12:00 PM Check IN is at 2:00 PM
There is no office at this location. It has a self pay station. Reservations cannot be changed at this location.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 44
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with a table and a campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. No hookups are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and a campfire ring. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. No hookups are available. The…”
- Store
- Nearby
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Night sky · 132nd darkest of 192 in MI
- Bortle 3
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 · 15
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, $24 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.
“Please cancel 7 days in advance for reservation sites. Reservation sites cannot be transferred to walk-in sites.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
44 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 24 mapped sitesAll 44 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 24 of the 44 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. 44 of the 44 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| SOLDIER LAKE | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 100 ft | 157 ft | 267 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 02 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 03 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 100 ft | 80 ft | 197 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 04 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 104 ft | 69 ft | 136 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 05 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 135 ft | 120 ft | 159 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 06 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 07 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 09 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 83 ft | 145 ft | 132 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 13 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 81 ft | 138 ft | 192 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 14 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 152 ft | 254 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 15 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 92 ft | 126 ft | 314 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 16 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 79 ft | 114 ft | 395 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 17 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 79 ft | 127 ft | 327 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 18 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 192 ft | 328 ft | 201 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 19 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 154 ft | 217 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 20 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 130 ft | 154 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 21 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 80 ft | 144 ft | 86 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 22 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 78 ft | 121 ft | 154 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 23 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 24 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 78 ft | 110 ft | 229 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 25 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 26 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 234 ft | 215 ft | 178 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 27 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 108 ft | 254 ft | 69 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 28 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 108 ft | 249 ft | 165 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 29 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 118 ft | 272 ft | 426 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 30 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 282 ft | 540 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 31 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 98 ft | 296 ft | 637 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 32 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 33 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 34 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 145 ft | 614 ft | 651 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 35 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 145 ft | 589 ft | 515 ft | $24 |
| SOLDIER LAKE | 36 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 37 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 38 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 39 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 40 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 41 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 42 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 43 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 | |||
| SOLDIER LAKE | 44 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $24 |
25 of 44 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Three LakesHiawatha National Forest · 5.7 miBay View CampgroundHiawatha National Forest · 8.2 mi
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From Sault Ste. Marie, take I-75 approximately 8 miles south to Exit 386. Turn right onto M-28 and travel 21.5 miles west to Forest Road 3138. Turn left and continue less than a mile 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 Brimley, MI
Typical weather
Typical October night 37°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 9°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Soldier 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 →