Ewing Point Campsite

Listen, we all know that the wilderness is shrinking and anything in Hiawatha is a gem. That being said, here are CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS FOR FINDING THE PROVIDED TOILET:

The campsite is to the left at the end of the trail. The toilet is to the right, on top of the hill. To get to the toilet, just turn right into the woods. You will see the toilet sign. Count twenty paces and look to your right. There is a tiny footpath leading up the hill to the toilet. USE THE TOILET.

This careless spreading of human mess needs to stop, otherwise you know they'll just close the sites down. It's not good for the forest's biome for people to be defecating 180 days a year at the edge of the water. It's not safe for other humans who are trying to avoid infectious diseases like Staph, Salmonella, and MRSA! Think about that! I wanted to peak at the lotus pond to the west of the point, but was met with so much waste and toilet paper than I ran back to the fire ring, cursing humanity. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO THE FOREST?

If you are lucky enough to be provided a toilet for your site, you have an obligation to use it. I don't know if anyone has heard yet, but they aren't making any new wilderness from assembly lines somewhere out there in Magic Village. This is all we have left. Do you want the Upper Peninsula to become like the rest of the Midwest, where there is NO dispersed camping and the forests are all just fake strips for highways? Well, guess what, that likely won't happen because instead of letting us wreck Ewing Point, the service will just close it. Then you'll be stuck camping in Kentucky with my redneck relatives who think that gravel lots, RVs, generators, and beer pong constitute a proper camping trip.

If you are new to camping, you really need to take a moment to think about the impact that human presence can have on the land. Leave no trace. Take only pictures. Go find out what the inside joke by the toilet is all about. Keep calm and Yooper on.

I would like to start this off by saying that this site would likely be different at a different time.
I had a wonderful weekend and would recommend this site.

We visited mid June, and we followed the gps. Don’t gps. Follow the instructions givin. We ended up taking an old logging trail to the site, which was 4x longer of a trek. It happen to be mosquito season as well, so we got eaten up while taking the wrong trail. The site was beautiful, and when we got all set up I really enjoyed it. It ended up raining pretty quickly so we tented for the night. The next day we decided to pack up and head out a day early. The next day was supposed to rain again so the trek would have been awful. I then got stuck in a sand pit and had to wait for a passing by car to ask for help getting our car towed.

Again, I would like to state that my experience here wasn’t a great representation of the site or the journey to it. I would definitely recommend and would like to see it during a more appropriate time, now knowing that I was on the wrong trail. I still had a good weekend.

Beautiful campsite. The toilet was a bit difficult to find as unexpectedly up a hill rather than down the obvious path, but no complaints there either. The lake provided plenty of good fishing (mostly pike), but the whole setting is exactly what you want from camping in the Upper Peninsula.