Bay Furnace Campground

Bay Furnace campground is a great place to stay when in the Munising/Pictured Rocks area. We've stayed here several times and the sites are large and quite private. We love coming here. The bathrooms are clean. The grounds are well kept and the campground is quiet, except for some road noise for sites near M-28. The Bay Furnace is interesting to visit and is a quick walk from the camp sites. Lake Superior has a nice sandy beach, although some rocks in the water. Site 42 is where we were this time and it is a good sized site, close to the bathrooms.

We were there for 10 days. We have often used Bay Furnace as our base for enjoying the U.P.
This time we have rated it as just "Good". There were very noisy neighbors who didn't care that their children wandered into our site area and were not using "camping voices" even after Quiet Time.
The bathrooms were minimally taken care of; the men's nearest our site did not have the floor swept or mopped the whole time we were there (yuck!)--and I know this because the same scraps of t-paper that were on the floor on day one were still there on day 10. The women's had someone defecate on the floor and it wasn't until we sought out and informed the host that it was cleaned (a day later--by the DNR person, not the host). We have been to other Hiawatha campgrounds' toilets that were inspected and thoroughly cleaned each morning.
Hopefully this was an anomaly and we will be pleased with our next experience at a Recreation.gov campsite.

Very clean, we enjoyed stargazing near the picnic area and the host is very friendly. we’ll be back again!

Super nice campground…probably the best “dry camping” site I have ever stayed. Lots of privacy and a good combination of sites with shade or sun. I selected site 31 to take advantage of the sun for the RV solar system. Also, the dump station and fresh water fill station was very good. Lastly, the CG was newly paved…it was awesome.

An AMAZING location! I do wish there were showers

The recent campground hosts are not available when you need them. There's 3 camping units and no one ever around to help. The campsites have cleaned firepits but never raked and the pit toilets are gross.
There used to be a host by the water that was outside, on their golf cart, available when you needed help when you knocked on their door. This trip when I finally got some answers, it was 3 days later. It's really weird.

I really enjoyed this campground the location allowed easy access to get into Munising as well as the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore area. The Campground itself was fairly small, but had large, well-maintained and flat sites. Very short, walk to get to the sand and lake itself. Very peaceful. Would definitely stay here again.

The campground host assisted us with moving to a second site. She was very pleasant and accommodating.
The campground has a newly paved road which is very nice compared to the older road.
Enjoyed the Pow Wow at the beach area. Will always return.
Sites 31 and 35.

Great rustic campground. Spaces are beautiful. Lots of privacy. And great beach access. Roads newly paved kids had great time riding scooters.

Beautiful campground, great site with access through the woods to the beach! Very cool to learn about the original furnace with the interpretative signs. Recommend!