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About Widewaters Campground
Number of accommodations: 17
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2026 Season availability
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- Potable Water
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Reviews (83)
What Guests Are Saying
Widewaters Campground is a well-maintained and peaceful location, conveniently situated near attractions like Munising and Pictured Rocks. Campers appreciated the spacious sites, clean bathrooms, and friendly hosts, Mike and Mary, who enhanced the overall experience. While some noted noise from generators and limited water availability, the majority found it to be a beautiful spot for camping with plenty of outdoor activities to enjoy.
What Guests Are Saying
Widewaters Campground is a well-maintained and peaceful location, conveniently situated near attractions like Munising and Pictured Rocks. Campers appreciated the spacious sites, clean bathrooms, and friendly hosts, Mike and Mary, who enhanced the overall experience. While some noted noise from generators and limited water availability, the majority found it to be a beautiful spot for camping with plenty of outdoor activities to enjoy.
Review Summary
Jeffrey F
VerifiedJuly 31, 2021 • Stayed at: 31, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
Worst experience ever, camp host was rude, our reserve sign on our site kept getting switched to open every time we would leave.
Colleen D
VerifiedJuly 28, 2021 • Stayed at: 09, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
Well-maintained, nice water access, trail access. Convenient for Pictured Rocks.
david m
VerifiedJuly 27, 2021 • Stayed at: 21, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
Great campground, enjoyed it
Christopher F
VerifiedJuly 16, 2021 • Stayed at: 31, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
Beautiful camping. The lake and river were amazing. Easy access to hiking/biking trail. Reasonably close to Picyure Rocks. A full service camp store with wifi was 5 minutes north. Very clean pit latrines. A very minor annoyance, some cars drove down the road in the middle of the night. Next time for an even more serene stay I'll stay on the lake side.
Alaina H
VerifiedJuly 16, 2021 • Stayed at: 27, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
We really enjoyed this campground, nice level sites and we felt like we were not on top of other campers. Quiet, off the road, a 20 ish minute drive to Munising but bring your bug spray mosquitos were hungry!! Bring your bikes if you are a mountain biker there is trail access right at camp. We wished we had brought our kayaks to enjoy the lake right at camp. As adults with no children we did appreciate that it felt like and adult campground. Vault toilets were cleaned daily and the camp host had firewood available for purchase. Small store 5 minutes down the road for anything you may have forgotten.
Joseph B
VerifiedJuly 12, 2021 • Stayed at: 19, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
Very nice large campsite. Very quiet, clean pit toilets and very helpful host. Lot’s to do in the area.
Audrey S
VerifiedJuly 6, 2021 • Stayed at: 23, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
Friendly and helpful staff, beautiful area, cleanist pit toilets i've ever seen. Will come here again!
Malori t
VerifiedOctober 5, 2020 • Stayed at: 31, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
Beautiful, quiet campground away from the crowds but close to all the action. Large clean sites give plenty of privacy and room to spread out. Nice lakes to fish and trails to hike within the campground. Love this place and plan to return in the future.
Adam T
VerifiedOctober 5, 2020 • Stayed at: 28, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
Your "reservation fees" on this site are exorbitant. Ridiculous.
Kim W
VerifiedSeptember 22, 2020 • Stayed at: 17, Loop: WIDEWATERS CAMPGROUND
This is one of those places you don't want to give a great review because more people will go there. But.... it is a wonderful campground with most spaces being very large and well separated. There are a few closer to each other for family camping. The restrooms were kept clean and well stocked. Water was a nice spout, not a pump. But, only one or two spots are really on the river. Most of them you have to walk down a path or two and a hill. Not a swimming campground. Tons of wood everywhere !!!! So... don't buy any. The only problem we have, and it is our personal feelings, is generators. Most campers were respectful and ran theirs only for an hour or two. Some even put them out into the woods to muffle the sound. But... there were those who chose to run them all day and into the evening, Just so they could keep the decorative tiki lights shining with no thought to their neighbors. This is not a generator free campground. Lots of tent campers who did not need them. 95% of the campers were super quiet with a few exceptions of very loud groups around the fires. Just go talk with the host if it goes past 10PM. Went kayaking right from the campground and it was gorgeous. Tons of dirt roads to ride bikes on. Another great thing was it is only a half mile off FH13, but the road is paved !!! As is the road around the campground, which was also great to walk around at night before turning in. You only hear traffic on this rarely used road once in a while. All in all, a great place to camp.
Location Widewaters Campground
Address:
E7900 W, M 28
Munising, MI, 49862
United States
From Munising, Michigan, go east on Michigan Highway 28 for about 3 miles. Turn south on Forest Highway 13 at Wetmore and continue for 12 miles. Turn west onto Forest Road 2262 and follow for about a mile to the campground entrance.
Widewaters Campground is located approximately 10 miles from US Highway 41, providing access to the area.
Elevation: 241 feet
16 mi drive to downtown Munising (about 20 min)
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
2PM
Check out time
12PM
General
- There are no electricity, water or sewer hook-ups at the campground
- Off-road vehicles not permitted
- Use only dead and downed firewood for campfires
- Two pets per site
- No switching sites upon arrival
- 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.
- Reserved Sites will be held until checkout time (NOON) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of the second day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests.
- Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
- Refunds: Refund requests made through www.recreation.gov will be charged a $10 processing fee. This fee is retained by the reservation service contractor along with the non-refundable reservation fee. All requests for the return of the non-refundable reservation fee and the cancellation fee will be declined by the campground concessionaire as they did not receive these fees (these are the fees retained by the reservation contractor, a different entity).
- 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.
- Click here for more information on the Hiawatha National Forest Hiawatha
- Hiawatha National Forest - West Day Use Fees:Day Use $8.00Day Use Annual Pass $40.00
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