Friends of Negwegon State Park

We are hitting several of the state parks on our tour through Michigan. Since we were coming from the north, Google told us to drive Sand Road from the north. It was interesting, but the better route is definitely coming from the south. Nice, secluded beach to play on. You can see deer, bird, and coyote prints all over the beach. We went twice. On the first day, the waves were close to 2 feet from peak to crest. On the second day the waves were no more than an inch high. There are several miles of hiking trails, that lead to more beach and rocky shores. I had a great time just walking the South Point looking at the glacial dropped rocks. We saw a few birds and a couple snakes while walking.

This place is a true Michigan gem. It's lovingly cared for, wild, and scenic. Great swimming in many areas. The back country campsites are spectacular. They are primitive and remote.... Expect to carry in or filter water from the lake, use a vault privie with no roof, and either hang your food from a bear pole or use a bear box (both are provided) . Be prepared to cut (down and dead) firewood if you're camping.... Bring a saw. I had to hike a bit from my campsite to find anything to cut. So you'll probably need to cut and carry firewood from some distance. The trail in is easy .... Flat, well used and marked, with bridges over mucky areas, and a few benches. The public beach is lovely, there's good rock hunting up toward the point if you're into hiking to other parts of the shoreline. Great trail system. The drive in on the two track sand trail road is ok most of the time but I would imagine you need 4 wheel drive occasionally. It's all sand.

Very nice, clean relaxing and quiet beach. Scenic all around. Hiking, swimming and exploring more of Michigan's splendor. Outhouse, no grills and no picnic tables. This park is well off the main road. Driving to the main entrance can be tricky. Room for one car only, but there are places to pull off and allow traffic by. Great for star gazing. Caught a meteor shower, Mars and Mars reflecting off the lake... What a sight to see.

We visited on a weekday in early June and had the place to ourselves. We were going to walk the Potawatomi trail but it looked a little overgrown and ticky so we walked along the beautiful beach. The roads in are basically 2 tracks and very sandy. But it was very much worth the drive.

Walking the trails and sitting on the beach was so peaceful and beautiful. Can't wait to go back to see the fall color changes on the trees down the trails.

Negwegon State Park is a wilderness exploration waiting to happen! Several miles of trails go deep into wooded area full of pine trees and Birch trees. There is a lot of beachfront to explore too, and dispersed campsites for people who really want to get away for a weekend in the deep woods. It is a several miles long rough dirt road to get to the gravel road where the Park entrance is, it is really just a two-track trail that will be a lot harder to drive on in bad weather or in wet seasons. There is a small parking lot and a few vault toilets and it is a Dark Sky Preserve which has a great view of Lake Huron. This Park is for people who like wilderness camping, exploring wooded trails, and enjoy a long beach walk.

Excellent back county State Park campground. The hike in is great for beginners or individuals looking to try backpacking for the first time. The hike loop is gorgeous! We saw many deer and a skunk! I highly recommend this park for people looking to experience the wilderness of Michigan from the quiet refuge of a tent.

For our first backpacking trip, hike was perfect. The hike in/out was quiet and beautiful. Of course there were bugs, but with the proper repellent, we sustained minimal mosquito bites. The hike took just under an hour, with some occasional stops to soak in the beauty. Our site was South Point #4, which was very secluded. The site receives a lot of wind, as you may see in other reviews, however it helped greatly with bugs/mosquitos. The wind prevented most insects from being able to fly, so we had virtually no issue with bugs/mosquitos at the actual site. If we adventured from the site, that was a different story. Repellent is highly recommended. Some additional positive points. The fire pit has a rock wall built to help block wind and help start a fire. A bear box is included about 100 ft from the actual site, along with a vaulted toilet. I know you can't ask for much, but the toilet was def a single star. lol Overall, this trip was Perfect... Perfect... Perfect.

This is a "beach and a campground" state park--not a lot of acreage for hiking or other rustic recreation, but very nice for pitching your tent or parking your RV along Lake Huron. On two trips there, our site was spacious and level, but well-screened in by trees. The extra-long picnic table was convenient for food prepping and cooking. Getting to the beach was a matter of walking across the road, and while you can't too far down the beach, it is a scenic little strand. There is a short walking trail if you stretch your legs for a bit longer. Restrooms and showers were clean, and hot water was abundant, but, at least on our last visit, the automatic sinks wouln't turn on when I needed them. Then at times they would turn on and off when no one was near them. The autoflush toilet also seemed to be operating on its own schedule--hopefully they'll fix that over the winter. This is a great base for beachcombing, hiking at Negwegon State Park just up the coast, or whatever else you like to do in the northern Michigan woods.

A great campground. We had a nice site across from the lake. A good wide site with some privacy. A great modern bathhouse with showers with bathroom/sink. A big plus. Bathrooms were modern and great. They just need fans in the bathrooms to avoid mold. The airflow was not good enough and you could see small amounts of mold on the ceiling. And auto flushing toilets...really stupid. Aggressively flushing as you sit on the seat. Enough to scare a kid for sure. Lol. Otherwise a great campground.

We walk here quite often, it's a nice place to walk your dog and just stretch your legs.

Love this park. The beach is so peaceful and beautiful. The bathrooms are nice here too.

Great place to stay. My parents sold their cottage a few years ago, and the new owners air B&B it out. This year we decided to stay at the campground instead. We had a great time. It's great as our kids are getting older and can explore on their own.

While we've stayed at campgrounds that were at full capacity (holiday weekends and midsummer) with no issues, there was absolutely no enforcement of the quiet time after 10pm when we stayed here for Labor Day weekend. There was a choir group camping on the other side of the campground that felt it necessary to practice very late into the night. There was the stereotypical "camping mom" that had a speaker tied to her waist with a microphone barking commands and stupid camping games with a group of a dozen kids. There was a large group across the way that had a karaoke setup. And, the UofM football fans could be heard all over the campground shouting their disappointment very late into the night. But, it was a holiday weekend, and I knew this would happen. Luckily, massive thunderstorms rolled in to shut everyone up. Our campsite never flooded during hours of torrential rain late in the night. We stayed at the odd-shaped corner 206 campsite, because it was the only one available when we made reservations at short notice. Our campsite is listed as accommodating a camper up to 25 feet, but good luck with that! We have a small tent, and even that required moving the picnic table and parking my car sideways. Because every campsite has a different shape and amount of trees, I noticed several people having extreme difficulty parking and pulling out with their massive campers. The roads are very narrow, and probably every campsite has a tree and/or uneven ground. The campground is heavily wooded, which was very nice. We stayed at a full-capacity Brimley State Park a month earlier, and because there are few trees in the campground, your neighbor was right on top of you. The day-use beach area was soft sand and clean. The park staff was friendly. The surrounding Harrisville area was nice and quaint with everything you'd need without driving too far. Verizon cell phone signal was perfect. As a male, I didn't care about how far away the nearest toilet was, but my wife complained at how the lone bathhouse was pretty far away. They don't have very many convenient outhouses, but the bathhouse and showers were clean. There was never a wait to take a shower. It was a nice state park that I will surely like to visit for a quieter weekday camping trip. Baseball fans can make a quick drive to Saint Anne Cemetery to see HoF Kiki Cuyler's grave and eat at the local restaurant that used to be his (food was mediocre, but the beer was cold and priced well).

The local marina while waiting for fireworks to start. Awesome fireworks display for July 4th weekend!

Beautiful, safe and convenient place for "modern" camping. However, there is a ridiculous amount of litter left behind by campers. They have dumpsters and a bottle/can recycling center, with signs that say please keep doors closed because of raccoons, but people still throw their trash all around the dumpsters. RIDICULOUS, PEOPLE. Clean up after yourselves and your children, if the dumpsters are full take your trash with you and properly dispose of it elsewhere.

This a wonderful park for camping , RV, tents. They keep the restroom showers clean and contained. It appeared all the campers were happy campers, children in the lake, riding bikes, Barbeque and fire camps ablaze! Friendly staff and nice campers. We had a great spot enjoyed with friends.

Great park. New restrooms and showers. Friendly staff. Right on Lake Huron. Rocky beach but day beach is beautiful.

We visit at least once a year. We love the picnics and beach. Parking is very convenient. The small boat launch is kinda hidden, but a bit long and narrow.

My friend came here before with their families, so we decided to come for our church small group camping trip. There is electricity on each camping spot. Restroom and showers are pretty decent considering you are camping. The camp site is right next to the beach, which is awesome. It is not a all fine sand beach, some small rocks mingled with sand too. Lake Huron is gorgeous, and surely great place to watch sun rise. Many people bring their pets as well. There is light house in the area. A K-mart 20 minutes away, a Walmart 40 minutes away.

This campground is my favorite in all of Michigan. My boyfriend and I stayed on campsite 103 which is a lakeside site. It was beautiful to say the least. Perfect place to set up a tent and have a view of the water. Beware if you stay on this site, there is a tree next to it that kids love to climb. Luckily the kids didn't make any noise in the morning so we were not bothered. Our only regret was not bringing our dogs because this site is next to the pet friendly beach area. This area of the beach doesn't have much sand which must be why it was designated pet friendly, but the dog run it located in this area as well (It's a small patch of woods that is actually very pretty to walk through even without your pet). We have also stayed on campsite 84 which is a lakeside site, but you have to walk through a short wooded path to get to the water. This campground has a bike/walking path which was fun to explore. It also have volleyball nets and a basketball court. Every site has electricity, a picnic table, a fire pit, and fire wood is sold in the campground. The bathrooms are kept clean. I love the facilities because they have individual showers and some of the shower rooms have toilets and a sink so you can have a private bathroom versus being in the stalls. As great as this is, I found that some of the showers don't have hot water, so just make sure you find one that does beforehand. Know that even if you don't get a chance to stay on a lakeside site, the beach is easily accessible, making any of the sites a great place to stay.

A lovely Michigan State Park with some really nice campsites on the sandy beachfront. I have camped here four times. Once about five years ago and three times in the past year. I have experienced the old and the new bathrooms. There is so much good about this park, it would be sad to make it all about the bathrooms. However, there are a lot of camping spots, and when the campground is full, not enough bathrooms. I haven't, so far, experienced the bathrooms as dirty. They have always been clean, but most of my visits have been in the off season. This morning I did wait in line to use the bathroom. The women's rest room was closed for cleaning at 7:30 am, and there was a line on both sides of the bath facility to use the private bathrooms and showers. There are still vault toilets throughout the park, but they are not open. It seems that opening those during busy times would alleviate lines at the bathrooms. The staff I have encountered on every visit have been very friendly. I could have extended my stay this weekend, but have already been camping here a week. I live nearby, so when I encountered the lines for the bathroom and shower this morning after a lovely and very quiet pre-holiday week, I opted out. Harrisville is a really great beach campground. I met a lot of nice campers. I'm sure the park will get the bathroom issue resolved.

This is probably my wife's favorite state park! She loves the beach here. No Snakes! I Like it too. We have been coming up here since about 2004. Almost every year .They have a newer style Bath or shower house, they have lots of trees, beach front sites,grassy sites, it has trails for biking but very minimal and also trails for hiking and bird watch that are bigger , little Bit of everything. During the week it's very quiet. On the weekend it's usually full all 226 sites taken. During the week the beach sites are all taken usually but the rest of the park is thin. Which is nice. This park also has a firewood seller who drives around the park with wood on a trailer for sale and dumps it right at your fire ring or any place else you might want it. You do pay a slight premium for this but it's well worth it. No driving down the road trying to find firewood Loading it then unloading it when you get to your site. They sell different amounts and of course the more you buy the better the price. Once again we love this state park. My two big issues with the place is the bathroom situation and the dump station situation. The bathroom has two urinals and two stalls with toilets. Then has seven shower rooms with sinks and toilets around the outside of the building. That's for 226 camp sites most have at least two people on them some have a lot more. So on the weekend that's at the least 550 people to use the few toilets. It doesn't seem right. It doesn't seem like enough does it. The other problem I have is the dump station. They have one dump that's it, they have two sides but one dump. The host came up and tried to tell me how to get in line and that they used to have two hoses but disrespectful campers abuses them and ran them over and this and that. And he thinks they ordered another hose with a tee fitting and it should be here by the weekend. Well that's not doing me Any good today. How do they not have a spare seriously how much could it cost or a Tee for the drain. I would bet 99% of the camping rigs out there have there own hose. Just put in the tee fitting. Well, now that that's said. I will stay here again and probably this year. It's a great park we love it..

A very beautiful park! Easy to get into and well kept. We stayed at one of their cabins for a fair price of $49 per night. The cabin was cozy and clean and so was our campsite. We were lucky to experience no bugs on our trip. The lake is stunning and so are their nature trails. There is a lot to do here to keep you entertained!

Have been coming here the last 3 years. One of our favorites. The staff has got to be the friendliest in the state. Always smiling and do an excellent job keeping the park clean. Programs for the kids and a beautiful beach on Lake Huron. Definitely a place to return to year after year.

I'm not a camper because I own property in the area. It is a fun place to drive thru and see all the people camping and having fun. their campsites are all decorated with tiny lights and having campfires. Brings a lot of people to the town for all the activities in the area like going to the beach, out to dinner, watching fireworks for 4th of July, parades on July 4th and Labor Day weekend and places to go out for ice cream cones.

Been coming here since I was little, nearly 30 years now. My Dad has been coming here for over 50 years. The park used to be great. Staff is now unfriendly, unhelpful, and unmotivated. Campground host just rides around her moped and honks as she goes by. The worst is making only one bathroom now. It's always dirty, there are always lines. It's a long walk from some of the sites, especially for the elderly, disabled, children, or pregnant campers. This will be our last year at this park.

Pet friendly park with sites that lead to the beach. Beautiful beach and even a sectioned off area to bring your dog out in the water. I've never had problems with the bathrooms and I camp here twice a year. Would recommend this park to everyone.