We love this park and plan on returning this summer. The owners are very friendly and accommodating. We camped here without children and stayed a week. We had full hook up and experienced excellent cable and Wi-Fi connection. Our site was clean, level and well maintained. This is not a park for those looking for planned activities, cramped sites, paved roads or even a store, but rather a peaceful, relaxing northern experience central to many U.P. attractions. The laundry room was not in good working condition. Unless the machines are repaired I would suggest going into town. Over all this is a great place to stay. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

Our rate was Escapees with metered electric. Electric cost us about $2.00 per day. We were there during peak blueberry season, and the entire park is one big blueberry patch! The artwork around the park by the owner is beautiful - carved rocks painted and nicely displayed. The owner is adding improvements and seems concerned that his guests have a good stay. It is across the road from Lake Superior, and close to the Ojibaway Casino. I wouldn't care to stay in the back-in sites by the main gate due to noise, but the gate is closed at night (you can use a back gate), so your sleep isn't disturbed. Overall, we loved it and stayed 2 weeks. We camped here in a Motorhome.

Water is full of iron to the point I would not hook to RV. Neighbor told me he had to change his filter every 3 days. Cable was unwatchable. Unless it rains it is extremely dusty when a car passes your site. Would not recommend this park to anyone! We camped here in a Motorhome.

The web site looks WAY better then the campground. The campground reminded me of something out of a horror movie!! The place is just a dump. The web site says indoor movies on a big screen, and when we went in, the so called lodge we found it quite empty and the movie screen and video projector was no where to be found. The water in this campground was brown and looked like mud, it was very iron laden and it plugged our water filter up 3 times!! There is not a lot for the kids, the playground was a joke, I have more playground equipment in my back yard. And as for the so called Ranger Jeff, he was a nice, but very strange. The sites are not wide at all, we almost couldn't slide our sides out all the way. One plus is that it is across the street from lake superior, and it was very quiet. I think the proprietor is a shady person, only accepting cash and not having a refund policy. The roads are very dusty and the sites are not labeled clear at all. All I can say is we will not ever go back to this place again and I would definitely not recommend it to anyone, look elsewhere as there are much better campgrounds in the Marquette area.. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

For an RV park in a prima location, one would expect to pay a somewhat higher fee, but not $45 per night! I rated it a 4 mainly because of that. Not overly impressed with the sites, gravel pull through, not particularly level and with only a scrub of bushes, or maybe a tree between sites. The owner/operator "Ranger Jeff" is definitely a strange duck. Rather eccentric. Has about 20 different projects going on all at the same time, which means that not much overall gets accomplished. While he was pleasant enough to me, I can see from other posts that he can be odd to deal with. If he isn't in the office (which is rare) he can be really hard to find on the rather large property, tending to one of his many varied projects. His reservation and payment policies are bizarre, and the only reason we stayed there was because of its proximity to our daughter attending Northern Michigan Univ. The electricity at our site didn't work initially, but we got that problem fixed. On a positive note, his fudge operation is superb, but you would think you'd have access to some as part of his high price. Not - sold for about the same rate as what you pay in most other tourist traps. While I have nothing personal against the owner/operator, we won't be staying there again because it's over priced and somewhat chaotic. His web site is more appealing than the actual place, so camper beware. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

Rated a 1 because it wasn't open - more than a month after Trailer Life said it would be. Given the scarity of parks in the area, I suggest you phone ahead before building a plan around it. We camped here in a Motorhome.

We stayed for a month at this campground only because we had paid in advance and refunds are not given. The owner/manager of this park is the strangest and least customer friendly person we have ever run into since we started our full time RV adventure. He stuck us up at the front end of the campground in a site that barely allowed us to open up our three slides. There was no way we could open our awning. We asked for a picnic table at our site and were told that he was short of tables. Mind you that at that time he was luck to have had ten of his sites rented and no one was in the tent area. There were plenty of unused tables which we offered to pick up in our truck and return when we left. As of today, he has still not filled his campground and there are unused tables available. We asked to be moved to another site as we had no room to move around our site. He could not accomodate this as he was saving his "best" sites for full paying customers. We were on a reduced monthly rate. Since initially we were planning to stay here all summer, I foolishly gave him a $200 deposit for electricity. I really do not expect that he is going to return any of this deposit so basically I will end up paying top dollar for my one month stay. We are out of here tomorrow. Also, he has propane available to purchase, however, the catch is he has a minimum $20.00 fill up charge. We ran out of propane in our one gallon bottle, had him fill it and then were told he had the minimum charge. I'm all for free enterprise, but this guy is just a thief! Can't wait to get out of here. We camped here in a Fifth Wheel.

You've driven all day. You're tired. You decide to stop for the night in Marquette and you find this campground called Gitche Gumee. My suggestion is for you to stop someplace for a cup of coffee and stretch for a few minutes and then get back in your rig and head down the road. This is the worst run campground in Michigan. The Management demanded cash and then gave us a site we could barely squeeze into and refused to give us another site even though there were others available and then he refused to refund our money. We spent a miserable night with our slides not extended because there wasn't enough room. We'll never stay there again. We camped here in a Motorhome.

Strange rv park run by a really strange person. Still the park was adequate with all hookups. Near the lake. Dusty roads level sites. Good cable tv. We camped here in a Motorhome.

This park has a massive website...but, unfortunately, I didn't realize (until it was too late) that there is no mention of a cancellation/refund policy. Months in advance we made reservations for two campsites and one cabin. The owner/operator/sole employee, "Ranger J", nicely asked me to send him payment in full. He doesn't accept credit cards and we live almost nine hours away, so he insisted that I send him a check, which he immediately cashed. Due to a serious family illness, we attempted to cancel our reservations nearly a month before our arrival date. We left numerous detailed messages, but Ranger J refused to return our phone calls. By chance, during one of my attempts to reach him, he happened to answer the phone. After explaining the situation, he said he'd "look into it" because he "didn't have his book with him" and he'd call me back. We never received a return call. Again, we left more detailed messages, but to no avail. When I finally spoke with him a second time, he told me he had a "no refund" policy, but that I was welcome to reschedule my trip for later in the season. Because we were forced to do so (or lose our $387) we rescheduled, but told him we only needed the two full hook-up sites and not the cabin. He said he would "handle the refund" for the cabin when we arrived. Upon our arrival, again I asked about the refund for the cabin and he said "oh, we'll deal with that later." After setting up camp, I asked him to give me the keys to the cabin because it appeared he had no intention of refunding our money, and he informed me that he had rented the cabin out to another person because we said we didn't need it. Again, we asked for our refund, and he flat-out refused to give us a dime. The refund should have been $127.20. I even tried negotiating a lesser amount, telling him I understood if there was a "cancellation fee." I asked if we could have a "credit" to use towards goods purchased at his campground and he even refused that. This is a one-man operation that is run very inefficiently, and it was apparent to most of the campers I spoke with that the only thing Ranger J is interested in is taking everyone's "cash". He even has signs all over his office that say "strictly cash." Yeah, now we know why...Most people in the world are basically good...Ranger J is one of the exceptions. We camped here in a Motorhome.

We would never recommend this park. The sites are nothing more than gravel driveways with brush on each side. It is not a spot where you would enjoy sitting outside to relax. The rates were double what we normally pay for much better accomodations. After talking to other campers we learned rates vary to as much as $45.00 per night. We had a awful experience when a bunch of kids were allowed to have a rock concert in the park. The base was so loud it just boomed throughout the park. After several attempts by myself and many other campers to get management to have the volume turned down, I asked for a refund. Mr. Jeff locked me out of the office and left. He has a cash only with no refund policy. It cost us $78.00 to stay there 17 hours. It will never happen again. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

Our camping experience was incredible. This campground has everything. We stayed up late cooking smores on an open fire with all the wood we wanted... free. Free fudge for the kids. This fudge is the best you will find ANYWHERE, including Mackinaw Island. My son loved the pool table and the indoor movie. The restrooms were the cleanest I've ever seen at any campground. Aside from the bugs, this campground is first rate. I would pay double... but like the low rate! ;) Thanks Jeff We camped here in a Tent.

This park was definately not worth the money. It was not well maintained. Restroom had indoor/outdoor carpet that could not have been clean and the laundry had not been swept for over a week. Park had nothing to offer except for its close proximity to Lake Superior swim beach across the road. Price was outrageous and varied with each camper (we learned later). Head for the City Tourist Park in Marquette for a better value. We camped here in a camper.

Very nice city-owned park just 4 miles outside of town. We stay here every year for a mountain bike race in August. The "lake front" sites are now a river since the big flood of '04, but still a very nice place with plenty of trees around. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.