Baraga State Park
Baraga State Park offers a well-maintained and friendly environment with full hookup camping sites, paved picnic and firepit areas, and convenient amenities including playgrounds, hiking trails, restrooms, and trash bins. It features wheelchair accessibility and allows dogs, making it great for families and pet owners. The park is close to the highway, with some road noise noted, but provides shade, a waterfront across the street, and a pleasant hiking trail leading through town to a lighthouse.
Reviews
A lot of campers give Baraga a bad rap because it’s right on M41 and it’s supposedly noisy. We stayed on Memorial Day weekend and one would assume a high traffic weekend. We were not bothered by the road noise at all. It’s a quite little park. Very nice sites, very nice showers. Highly recommend.
Wonderful state park and friendly staff. Campsites for tents to mansions on wheels. The park has 2 buildings with bathrooms and there are private showers with hot water, clean restrooms and well manicured grounds. Sites don’t offer a lot of privacy from your neighbors but there are lots of small trees that may provide decent shade depending on your site. The fire pits are unlike any I’ve seen before and they do not put off a lot of heat because of the design and CANNOT be moved.
There’s a great trail that begins at the campground and goes through town and ends at a lighthouse, about 6.5 miles round trip. Wide side walk is great for walking or bike riding. Pics included for trail reference.
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Try to get a site away from the road, if possible, the road stays busy all day and night with commuters and truckers and you’ll hear em.
The train tracks don’t seem to be in useNULL! Never heard it running throughout the stay, so don’t be afraid to stay in the back close to the tracks.
You can/SHOULD get the Michigan state parks Passport if you plan on visiting or camping in the state’s recreation areas for 4 nights or more a year. Daily non Michigan plated vehicle rates are NULL or NULL for the year.
Call ahead to check availability at your preferred campground, you can save NULL-NULL on your reservation by doing a walk up campsite. Reservations online or over the phone cost NULL-?.
We had a great campsite at this state park – #12. Not only did we have full hook-ups (30 amp power), the site was paved – including the picnic area and firepit area. And the big bonus was that we faced an open field with no camping in it! Also – it was on a turn – so backing in was a breeze. Yes, the campground is just off the highway so there is some highway noise and the lake front is across the street, but still our site was lovely. Hosts were friendly and helpful.
We stayed at a full hookup site for a week in August. We loved this park! It’s fairly small but has everything. Two nice bathhouses, a playground and hiking trails. There is no train, the tracks behind aren’t in use. There is road noise, but it was never bothersome. Across the highway, there’s a park with small boat launches and benches. You could probably swim there if you wanted, but there’s a nice beach in L’Anse.
The campground was clean and neat. Well maintained and you can tell they have put some money into it.
They have plenty of trash cans for when you’re walking your dog, so that’s a great thing too.
Downside is the road noise from 41 and the WiFi is terrible (not surprising). If you have work to do, make sure you remember to bring your own Internet.
I was in site 16, it was a nice, large FHU back in site with a lot of empty land behind it.