Hurricane River Campground

We stayed at #3 in the Upper loop which has 10 large sites, clean facilities and is a quick walk to the Lower loop. The Lower loop is on Lake Superior. We booked for a week but left a day early because we weren’t able to charge our battery bank with our solar array sufficiently enough. Campground is in heavy shade but site #6 has some sun.
North Country Trail runs through the Lower Loop also which offers fantastic hikes to Au Sable Light station to the east and Twelve Mile Beach to the west. Great hiking and of course the Pictured Rocks is to the west.

Great, clean sites and well cared for amenities.

Clean site and quiet grounds. Bathrooms were ok. Great access to the eastern part of Pictured Rocks and to Grand Marais. A quick jaunt down to the beach for the amazing sunset.

This area is BEAUTIFUL!! we stayed in the north loop— 10 sites total. We loved the quiet and the walk to the lower campground and Lake Superior. Definitely bring your bug spray. Our site was perfect and spacious. My only complaint was the horrible scent they put in the pit toilets to try to disguise the smell— it made me nauseous.

Beautiful location, spacious and private campsites, short walk to the beach, and the river was beautiful! I would bring my family here again!

Site 10 in lower campground across the road from Lake Superior. Short walk thru trees and brush on a path right to the beach...beautiful.
Tends to be a bit "busy" with hikers continually passing the site on the 1.6 mi walk to the lighthouse. Nevertheless a great spot to camp.

Quiet and clean campground. All the sites have plenty of shade and privacy.

Quiet, peaceful, beautiful nature.

Family spent a wonderful week at Hurricane River. Beautiful and very peaceful. Campground clean and vault johns were pleasingly good. Prepare for cool nights sleeping, as Temps did drop into 40s during our stay. Kids loved playing at the river and swimming at the beach. Lots of good local hikes and things to do. Only complaint is the park reservation system....very difficult to get a reservation due to no availability yet at least half the sites are empty while there due to cancellation or no shows. Park service should change process to opening more sites, like half, for late reservations or first come first serve policy. Make any no shows that don't cancel pay a hefty price!

We spent two nights at Site #1 in Hurricane River (Lower) Campground July 3-5, 2022. Great access to trails and the beach from the campground! It's awesome to have a site reservable 4 days out from arrival for more spontaneous travelers. However, the site is right at the intersection of the parking lot for the beach and campground loop entry. Lots of traffic from cars going past the full parking lot and having to turn around/back out of the campground. Very open, no privacy, lots of traffic for this site. Other sites much more secluded and private. This really should be the Campground Host site or additional parking, if anything. Bathroom was two pit toilets. Bathrooms got heavy use from visitors to the beach and Au Sable Lighthouse trail that leaves from the campground. Kind of ruined it for the campers... Really need separate bathrooms for day use and campground. Or flush toilets with sinks to keep things cleaner. Lots of toilet paper on floor along with sand and soiling from messy visitors. Not ideal for rustic tent campers without a way to wash up after...