My favorite place to camp is the D. H. Day Campground in Northern Michigan right by Sleeping Bear Sand dunes. The campground is connected to the beach of Lake Michigan and the views are spectacular. The campground it's self is rustic, no electricity or showers. It's such a peaceful place.

My favorite place to camp is at Waldonwoods in Hartalnd. Open all year with activities for all ages in every season!

My favorite place to camp is the Porcupine Mountains wilderness state park. Breath taking absolutely gorgeous!

Silver lake State park is great! The view is pretty, and there is a great beach. The sand dunes are fun for climbing, or 4 wheeling, and there is a lot to do for families! Or you can just relax at your site. The little town has ice cream shops and fun things to do especially if the weather isn't great.

We are a family of 6 and tent camp and are in desperate need of a camper. Some of our most fond memories are from camping. One of our favorite places to go is Yogi Bear Parks in Indiana. The kids have a blast there! We also like to go to the state parks. They are very clean and the people there have been very nice. We are looking foward to another summer spent camping with our family.

My family and I enjoy camping. One of our favorites was at the Sleeping Bear Dunes.

My family always camps in Ludington, St. Ignace and, more recently, a bit north of Port Huron, where I had lived for a few years. They still tow a 1977 AMF Skamper with tasteful (for that era) brown, orange and yellow accents. I should gently nudge them toward getting something newer.

One hidden treasure for camping in Michigan is Muskellonge State Park, near Newberry in the UP. This park is located between Muskellonge Lake and Lake Superior, offering the best of smaller local lake and the big Gitchee-gumee. You can spend time searching the Lake Superior beach for agates, or fish in Muskellonge Lake, or head a bit West to take in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Grand Marais isn't far either, nor is Whitefish Point and the wonderful Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum. Love this place, hope to go back to it this summer.

Our favorite place to enjoy Michigan outdoors camping is the Holly State Rec Area Campground. We love the wildflower gardens, children's updated play areas, and the close proximity to home!

Absolutely favorite campground is Ludington State Park. There are three areas for tent and RV camping - about 500 sites total. Excellent hiking, fishing, and relaxation! Hamlin Lake is great for power sports and kayakers alike. Then there is a little lake known as Lake Michigan! Even better: you can take your favorite floatation device - or several and create a floatilla - and spend over an hour and a half just floating from Hamlin Lake to Lake Michigan - excellent, excellent, excellent! If you go, check out the boardwalk and the nature-island to see more moss species than you can shake a walking stick at! But...watch out for those racoons - they are sneaky!

We love Port Huron. Love all the things to do there. In all fairness I haven't been to many other places, I am a creature of habit.

Port Huron KOA I meant to say

Our favorite is Muskegon State Park ~ Lake Michigan Campground. Every January I make 8 site reservations for the end of July at one of the Michigan State Parks for our group. We all went to college together and now live scattered all over the state so this is our week of communal living with our families. The kids (age 3-15) have all grown up together and we all look forward to this every year. Muskegon has been our favorite so far. We love the sandy Lake Michigan beach and with so many kids in the group (16 kids/14 adults) Michigan's Adventure is a fun day out.

Port Crescent State Park is the best within a short drive. Since it's at the tip of the thumb, you can see the sun both rise and set over the water. It also has dunes and a great beach. It's short bike ride into Port Austin, and the area is good for kayaking. If you only want a short walk, there is a ice cream place right next to the campground.

I don't have one favorite spot to stay - they are all great from the Yogi Bear park in Holly where I stay for the Renaissance Festival to Camp-it in Saugatuck and so many others. It's hard to choose!

Our favorite place to camp is the Holly State Recreation Area in Holly, off of Grange Hall Road. My family has been going there since as long as I can remember (mid-70's as I am 41 now). It is great to be able to show your children the places that you camped as a child (spending 2 weeks every summer in our Apache) and see the changes. It is also neat to be able to have a different perspective of how areas are laid out and how they seem a little smaller now as an adult. I hope to help build my children's memories much like my parents did the same for me.

Our favorite place to camp is East Jordan Campground. It is right in downtown East Jordan, so you can walk to the nearby stores and the campgroud has it own beach that is a 2-3 mintue walk from each of the camp sites. The campground is clean with great bathrooms, full hook ups, can cable tv. Also it is a quick drive away from Charlevoix area.

We love the Petoskey KOA, in Petoskey, MIchigan. It is rated one of the top 100 campgrounds in the country! We've been camping since 1995, when we rented our first pop-up camper and have been through the gamut of all types of RVs from pop-ups to a large, 38' motor home, but we always return to our favorite spot, Petoskey. The campground is a resort with all amenities; pool, hot tub, clubhouse, plenty of activities for children and adults alike. The Rose family are the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. We love Petoskey so much that we try to go up there at least 3 times per year, spring, summer and fall, when they have their autumn harvest weekend. It's a fabulous place to camp!

Seems like a lot of patch readers like camping, maybe we need a regular camping segment.

Linda, that's a fantastic idea! Who is interested in blogging about camping for Patch?

Our favorite place to camp is Groveland Oaks County Park in Holly. We love to go for the Fourth of July and watch the great show over the Lake and love all the activities for the kids. The kids enjoy the water slide and love to play in the stream too.

Coldwater has nice camping and lakes and a cute town.

Camping ranks #1 as a positive family activity strengthening relationships and building positive memories. We've camped for many years, first with a tent, then a pop-up, then RV and now back to a tent. I absolutely love camping at Independence Oaks group campground. Biking, hiking, swimming, fishing, boating & a nature center are all available. With enough interest, we could begin a Clawson Campers group!

I would have to say its Holly Rec Area! We started going there about 10 years ago. The sites are clean the staff is friendly and the things the area has to offer are wonderful. We go every year, twice! Although its an hour drive its well worth it!
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Our family's favorite place in Michigan to camp and vacation is at Higgins Lake. I have been going there with my family since I was a little girl so I guess that makes it 50 years now. I have stayed in tents, cabins, and pop-ups, but now my husband and I are ready to purchase a travel trailer. I can't think of a better place to have our first camping experience in our new RV. That is why we are coming to our first RV show ever in Novi.

My family loves to camp at KOA campgrounds, and our favorite one so far is the one in Petosky. We went there twice last year and plan to go again this year. The staff there is wonderful and they have lots of activities for kids and adults. We love camping with our familiy, it gives us a lot of quality time to spend together and is so much cheaper than staying in hotels!

I have 2 Favs !!
1st .. Lumberman's Monument overlooking the Au Sable river in East Tawas ... high view down ... Also within a short walk is a sandy beach on about a 45 degree angle & a 100 yards long where logs used to be rolled down to transport to sawmills.
2nd for me is Bruin Lake in Pickney ... State Of Michigan camping site with some pads right on the lake edge ... I brought a boat and just walked about 60 feet from camp to boat .. and away I go.

BTW, Bruin Lake is on a 5 lake chain.

Irish Hills every June and August for NASCAR!!!! 3 generations of camping loving Nascar race fans. The more friends that come the more fun we have. From tents to motorhomes we love our family camping Nascar weekends!!!

Love reading all the wonderful comments and remembering all of the great places to vacation in Michigan!!!! THE MITTEN RULES FOR OUTDOOR FUN!!!

Our favorite place to camp is Lake Sch-Nepp-A-Ho in Muskegon, MI. It is rustic and beautiful, yet has all the amenities you need. The lake is great to swim in too. Whenever we visit Michigan Adventure we stay there as it is only 2 miles away.

I would love to win these tickets, I sold my camper two years ago due to the economy and have regretted it every since. Of course the first person to call showed up with cash and bought it. I have been wanting another one every since. Tents are not my thing.

My family has been camping at East Jordan since I was a kid. When my own family bought a camper that is the first place we went camping, I hope my kids have the same memories that I have

The contest is now closed! Thanks to all who entered and we'll be notifying the winners shortly. And if you want to blog about camping or outdoors on Patch, we'd love it. Email me at clare.ramsey@patch.com.