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About Carp River Campground
Number of accommodations: 12
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2026 Season availability
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- Potable Water
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Reviews (54)
What Guests Are Saying
Carp River Campground offers a peaceful, well-maintained setting with friendly hosts and spacious, private sites surrounded by trees. It provides easy access to hiking, fishing, and nearby attractions like St. Ignace and Kewadin Casino. While the mosquitoes can be bothersome, the overall experience is highly rated, making it a great choice for nature enthusiasts.
What Guests Are Saying
Carp River Campground offers a peaceful, well-maintained setting with friendly hosts and spacious, private sites surrounded by trees. It provides easy access to hiking, fishing, and nearby attractions like St. Ignace and Kewadin Casino. While the mosquitoes can be bothersome, the overall experience is highly rated, making it a great choice for nature enthusiasts.
Review Summary
Janice M
VerifiedAugust 20, 2026 • Stayed at: 010, Loop: CARP RIVER
Our host was wonderful and moved us to a vacant site closer to the rest of our group and better able to accommodate us with 2 tents, 2 cars, and a trailer. She is a wonderful ambassador.
Shari D
VerifiedAugust 4, 2026 • Stayed at: 007, Loop: CARP RIVER
The camp hosts were friendly, vaults were clean, and sites were great. Lots of trees between sites for some privacy.
james d
VerifiedJuly 22, 2026 • Stayed at: 007, Loop: CARP RIVER
I always stay here when traveling through UP to Traverse City. The mosquitoes are friendly so make sure the screen is well placed. There are great hiking areas and river fishing is adjacent to many sites. Just a short way to the Kewadin Casino and the many St. Ignace tourist attractions.
Jeffrey W
VerifiedJuly 12, 2026 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: CARP RIVER
Nice and quiet just like it should be.
KEVIN B
VerifiedJuly 6, 2026 • Stayed at: 016, Loop: CARP RIVER
Very pleased with the campground, and the young man who worked to sort things out for us to we could show up on the opening day of the season.
Brook H
VerifiedJune 24, 2026 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: CARP RIVER
We stayed 2 nights at Carp River, in mid June. It was our first National Forrest campground. The campground was easy to locate. We reserved site #9 a few weeks in advance. It had a nice walk down to the river, fishing in mid June wasn't great, but we enjoyed it. Looking for the rustic experience while exploring St.Ignace. The camp hosts Mary & Joe where wonderful. Mary was more helpful and involved than any state park host I have encountered in the past. She had our site set up with our name plate, fire ring cleaned completely, and grass trimmed. She also gave us a disclaimer at check in about the severity of the mosquitos! Which where hellacious by the way. However, her suggestion about the mosquito face net from Ace was great advice! It was the only way to tolerate them. It was a great place if you're really looking to emerse yourself into nature, minimal neighbors, large rustic sites. Plenty of fallen dead firewood too.
Rickey L
VerifiedJune 24, 2026 • Stayed at: 008, Loop: CARP RIVER
Peaceful, quiet, serene.
Very clean and well kept grounds!
Campground host were exceptional.
Will be returning in the near future!
Lisa F
VerifiedJune 22, 2026 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: CARP RIVER
lots of bugs, but i was prepared. the site was great and the whole campground was amazing.. great camp hosts. this is a campground in the woods, and on a river. plan accordingly.
Jon H
VerifiedDecember 31, 2025 • Stayed at: 019, Loop: CARP RIVER
Very pretty rustic campground along the Carp River near St Ignace. Convenient to that area and surrounding attractions. There is a campground host employed by the concessionaire. Everything appeared well maintained, vault toilets but clean and good condition. Was not busy during our stay and might be a good alternative to other busier modern campgrounds in the area like Straits State Park if you don't need hookups.
Heather A
VerifiedDecember 28, 2025 • Stayed at: 010, Loop: CARP RIVER
One of the most peaceful tent camping experiences I’ve ever had. So quiet.
Location Carp River Campground
Address:
N. 4149 Brevort Camp Road
St. Ignace, MI, 49760
United States
Carp River Campground is accessible via US Highway 2, which is approximately 10 miles to the south.
Elevation: 192 feet
13 mi drive to downtown St. Ignace (about 17 min)
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
2PM
General
- 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.
- Reservation cannot be traded for walk up sites
- We do not have an office at this location. It has a self pay station. Reservations cannot be changed at this location.
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Last updated: September 8, 2026
