Carp River Campground

Large sites, always very clean, Camp host are wonderful, loaner games for kids to play. Just a beautiful place to stay.

Great place to get away, great centralized place to set up camp to go fishing at the river and other rivers

Up to Friday before scheduled to camp, received emails to be sure and make reservation day May 15. When I arrived campground was closed and remained closed for two days. I camped out in parking lot for two days. There were no courtesy calls to cancell. I drove 300 mi for nothing.

So this campground is beautiful and quiet and the sites were nice and roomy. However the bugs were horrible from the moment we stepped out of the car. So bad that we spent very little time at the site. We were there for the car show anyway. On the second night it rained down bright green pollen from the pine trees and covered everything, it was so thick in the air the next morning it looked like green snow. We left early again that day and it was raining when we got back so the air was better by then, however taking down a wet tent covered in wet mushy pollen did a number on my allergies for weeks after. But like I said, beautiful site, another time if year might be better.

Located just north of Michigan's Mackinaw Bridge. Quiet, with easy access from I-75. This is a good place to overnight before continuing your Upper Peninsula travels.

Beautiful campground. Spacious, wooded, quiet, private sites, plenty of space between you and your neighbors. We were in Site 9 and it was gorgeous. Easy access to drinking water.

We chose a site along the Carp River, but there wasn’t really easy access to the water. We didn’t bring the kayaks this trip, so we were ok with that, but don’t plan on putting in the river from the campground.

The biggest negative was the pit toilets. We were in the middle of the campground, and the only toilets were quite a walk to either end of the campground. That was easy enough to get over, but the stench of the toilets was just too much. We rustic camp. A lot. I’ve been in hundreds of pit toilets, and NEVER have I smelled one as disgusting as these were. They appeared clean, but the smell was overwhelming.

Just one more comment, neither positive nor negative, just left us with a bad taste. The people camping one site down and across the road stopped by our site as they were leaving and said they left quite a lot of wood for the next campers, and we were welcome to it. Within 15 minutes after they left, the camp hosts rolled up in their golf cart with a trailer and scooped up all the wood that they had left behind for the next campers. It just didn’t sit right.

Private sites, good spacing between them. Clean area and pit toilet was clean as well. Convenient water stations, water tasted great. Camp host Randy is a good worker and reps an eye on things well. There is a free dump station about 10 minutes away as the Casino outside of St. Ignacio.
Looking forward to another stay here.

Sites very clean. Toilets vwere VERY well maintained. 4G from Verizon throughout.

Not to easy to access river with kids, very close but steepish.

Would definitely go back.