Chocolay River RV & Campground

This campground is an open field with some gravel and GPS couldn’t find it. The campground is down a dirt road behind the Northern Michigan University Golf Course on Chocolay Downs Road. Don’t bother picking a site number because you basically park on any empty spot regardless of what you’ve reserved. No human interaction with the owners and office was always empty. It was quiet and hookups worked fine.

If you like secluded, grassy, shaded sites that feel like northern Michigan this is not the place for you. It's a gravel parking lot with full hookup. Most sites have no picnic table or fire ring. If you want those, pick a site that has them because the owner doesn't care what site you reserve vs occupy. It was quiet and people were friendly. The showers and bathrooms were clean and pretty typical of campground facilities. Firewood is $10 a bundle. If you show up without reserving online I think the rate might be negotiable. It's a fast and loose kinda place.

This must be a newer park because there were very few trees. Lots are densely packed together which wasn't an issue this time of year as there were many open spaces. Easy access in and out, pretty clean. It was near end of season, so some sections were closed down. Neighbor left at 7a and their dog barked constantly for the last 2 hrs we were there. Went to Obijwa Casino nearby and it was poorly staffed ... as many things are these days.

Just Don’t Do It! One Star is too many - Zero Stars was not an option! We made a reservation with a Passport America discount $22.50 a night and when we arrived, they raised the rate to $35. We reminded them we have Passport America and the manager began telling us how much money they had to spend to open the park, new wells, new electric and said he felt $35 was a fair rate. We showed him the Passport America webpage and he waved his hand, laughed, and repeated $35 is a more than a fair rate. We then reminded him that the reservation was at $22.50, his reply was fine then $30 that is fair. He was rude and not willing to budge, treated us like we were crazy for wanting the rate we booked. We chose to leave but had to circle through the campground. The campground is a completely dirt field and only had 4 campers in sites one had the maintenance truck out front with piles of beer cans around the table and ground. The managers site has trash and things laying all over their site, one looked like it had been there forever and one other very nice class A. The rest of the 75 campsites were empty and this was 4th of July Weekend! There are no trees, no grass, the sites had some very long weeds, dirt with a few rocks! They are adding additional site too! When we pull off the road, we want the campground to be as expected at the rate we booked. We don’t play games we made the reservation based on an agreement Passport America had made with the campground the they will not honor the agreement!

Pretty plain newer rv park with 78 sites. Basically a gravel lot with angled pull thru sites. Sites are up to 75ft long, full hook-ups, good voltage & mediocre water pressure. Lots are level, but no shrubbery or trees on sites. All park roads are gravel with pot holes & 1 mile + access road off highway is a heavily pot holed gravel road. The owner would not honor the published Passport America rate with the excuse he couldn't make money on that rate.

Found this campground near Marquette when we were trying to find something with full hookups and not in town, gravel, pull thrus, pretty much a dirt parking lot but very quiet, dark, 1 mile from casino & only a few miles to Harvey & Marquette, dirt rd coming in, hard to follow signs but turn left at stop sign then to right onto the dirt road, they are still working on the campground but a lot of sites are open