Flowing Well Campground

My wife and I stayed here with our two dogs on Memorial Day weekend 2022.

The campground was well maintained. The sites were not packed together, but we could still see our neighbors.

The campground is near a road, but traffic was minimal during the day and almost non-existent at night.

Each site has a picnic table and fire ring; the fire ring has a grill you could swing to hang off the side and leave the pit open or set over the fire for cooking and boiling water.

The restroom was a single-occupancy vault toilet. It was clean and odors were not an issue.

The picnic area had a couple picnic tables and grills. Additionally, there was a spigot but I either did not know how to operate it or the spigot was broken. We ended up getting water from the flowing well and filtered/boiled before use to be safe. Water from the well was clear, but smelled slightly of sulfur.

The surrounding area is marshland, so bugs and mosquitoes are heavily present. A good fire will keep the bugs away and a little bit of bug spray will pretty much eliminate issues with the pests.

Some maps of the campground show 10 sites, but the campground only has 6 sites.

Beautiful rustic site. Saw a coyote & the local owl called out bedtime & sunrise. Next time we'll bring the canoe for sure

decent spot.

Great trails and a beautiful hike up one side of the river and then back (8 miles)
Bathrooms and showers were fabulous, new and clean.

We camped with tents for 3 days. We had 4 tents, we were 7 people, and we had plenty of space. The background noise of the river is nice but during the day you will hear the trucks passing through the nearby road. No showers and no lumber sold at the place, although you could self serve buy lumber 10 mins away by car going north on road NF-13. Mosquitoes were pretty bad in August.

No fault of the site or workers - but the WORST mosquitos I’ve ever experienced. Setting up our tents was horrific and we were eaten alive. Couldn’t bring ourselves to explore the area or even cook dinner on the fire because they were so bad!

Clean, quiet, small campground. Stream below had nice white noise all night. Mosquitoes were particularly numerous. Higher numbered sites have most exclusivity/privacy/set back from the road. Site 3 is directly next to the bathroom, and it was a small walk from the end of the camp loop. When I was there there were some US Forest Service rangers doing maintenance and surveying, so it is well maintained.

Get a reservation. Given the number of USFS camps near here, there were a lot of folk driving through to look for First-come sites as early as 3pm in peak season (end of July/early August)

We arrived after 11pm after a long drive, it was a relief to see our last name on site 6. The camp ground is quite nice, the pit toilet was clean. The only possible downside would be early morning logging trucks on the nearby road. I would camp there again!

We very much enjoyed our stay at Flowing Well Campground in late August 2019. We stayed midweek as part of a cycling trip across the UP. We had a small motorhome which worked very well on the lot. The lot was very private and had a lovely view of the river through vegetation. There were plenty of mature trees and shade. We enjoyed walking to the artesian well. The campsite is fairly remote but was well placed for our travels. We did encounter a lot of bugs (mosquitos with some gnats/flies) which made it challenging to cook outdoors and kept us inside for most of the evening.

Great small campground with u-shaped drives for each site so you can pull thru. Bathroom was very clean. River behind sites is pretty cool, but maybe a warning should be posted about the fast current for those who may bring children.