Take a peaceful, easy walk from parking lot to Lake Michigan, and breathe in some really clean air. Views of brilliant white snow and vast expanse of water is exhilirating.
There are two small cabins in the state park and a YURT (round, double-walled tent) right on the trails!
We have been to this campground for seven years now. In fact, we are there right now. It's beautiful! We have a pathway right down to the beach, and we can watch the boats from our lot. We love this park! We have found the staff to be polite and helpful. I know one reviewer was upset that they were not allowed to look around at the campground during the busy season, but we have had that happen to us with other MI State Parks, also.Our grandsons enjoy climbing the dunes and walking through the woods. The beach is small, but comfortable.The only reason I am rating it four stars instead of five stars is the bathrooms. They are average. I know one reviewer said they are clean, but we have stayed in many parks that are much cleaner than this one. The hot water was out for a few days, also. But that doesn't happen very often.
This park offers something for everyone all year long. The Lake Michigan beach is obviously a highlight, but winter also brings the chance for ice skating, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, and even a trip down the luge. A day or more spent here is well worth the time.
There are two camping areas within the park.The Channel Campground is bordered by Muskegon Lake, Muskegon Lake Channel, and Lake Michigan.The Lake Michigan Campground, is of course, on Lake Michigan.
I could go on and on about how beautiful this place is and how there are hot showers that are kind of dirty feeling and sandy, take your flip flops into the shower. You can't go wrong w/ picking this as a campsite....but enough has been said about all of that in the surrounding reviews. What I want to let you know about is the ice cream situation. It is this, if you want to walk around the park and get Ice Cream, Ruth Anne's is right there. It's the kind of ice cream that gets scooped out of bins, you can also get kids kind on a stick w. shapes like hello kitty. It's ice cream and ice cream is good, but it's expensive to take, say a family of five, to get ice cream. I think we spent 25$ on ice cream. An alternative is to take a short drive...back out the way you came into the park you will have passed a place called "Scoops" which is part of Snug Harbor resort. We got the same family all ice cream and I think we spent like 6$. We all got cones. This is the soft serve ice cream, which is what I like. They have so many flavors, I got raspberry. The family that owns it is very friendly and it's just a short drive or bike ride. So there you have it...two different places to get ice cream. One for each day.
In side the State park is the Muskegon Winter Complex. We went Luging with our Friends and had the most amazing time. A must do if you like the rush of adrenalin. Great staff. There's a lot to do their for all ages.
Went for a short visit. Was very clean and beautiful. The boats were beautiful too. People who were fishing and walking around were very friendly and water was blue. Light house was neat too.
Beautiful hiking trails, Lake Michigan beach is not over crowded and it is very clean. The boat launch is busy but the boat traffic is steadily moving and not long waits.
Miles and miles of sand dunes and beach. My husband and I sat atop one of the sandy hills and watched the various boats go by. Loved it!!