This is a great place to set up a base camp if you want to go to Chicago. Zion Metra station is about 1/2 mile (walk, ride a bike, no car required!) from campground. Stay on north end, 300 loop. Weekends are busy with many tent-camping families. Weekdays are very quiet. Beautiful views of Lake Michigan through our dinette window. Direct beach access. We stayed here (site 331) in a motorhome.
Well kept sites, clean restrooms, helpful hosts. Right on Lake Michigan. Short walk to a very long walkway along the lake. Sites immediately next to lake are not level. There's a dune between the campground and the lake so you cannot see the lake from most campsites. Quiet, wooded. $25 per nite with electric. No water hookups at any site. Would definitely stay here again.
Well kept sites, clean restrooms, helpful hosts. Right on Lake Michigan. Short walk to a very long walkway along the lake. Sites immediately next to lake are not level. There's a dune between the campground and the lake so you cannot see the lake from most campsites. Quiet, wooded. $25 per nite with electric. No water hookups at any site. Would definitely stay here again.
A great place to camp! Makes you forget you're in the city. Stay in site 308!
Nice quiet camping area. You can walk to Lake Michigan. The bathhouse needs updated for sure. Water was leaking from everything. Pretty good location. I'd go back again.
Best sites are under the pines at the north end and across the road from the beachfront sites. The beachfront sites are more sloped. Some of the sites further from the beach flooded in a heavy rain. A asphalt path runs along the beach, a sandy beach is nearby as is a resort hotel if you have friends & family that want rooms.
Due unforseen circumstances, we were on the road late and at 10:30 I called the park for a campsite. Luckily, the weekend 2 staff members there. They were so helpful even with their computer down. The guy drove out into the campground to make sure the larger sites were available for our rv and even went out to write my license plate number, so I wouldn't have to go out and get bitten by misquitoes. The girl was professional and informative. In the morning, we found the park to be clean and our site close to Lake Michigan.
Visited here early July 2018, with a 42 fifth wheel, and was in Site 145 in South Unit (30amp) back-in site. The campground consists of 241 sites, and I believe they are all back-ins sites and nearly all are 30amp with just a handful of 50amp, most include a picnic table. There are water hydrants throughout the park, trash cans, garage dumpsters near dump station, shower facilities and restrooms. Our site like most consisted of hard pack gravel pad with lots of grassy area between sites. I give this campground a single star for a number of reasons. I made a reservation online about a month before for Site 357 when we arrived we were told that site was flooded and unavailable and that we had to change to another site. I originally choose 357 for reasons that many other sites didn t offer, strike one. As we were getting parked into our site we found out quickly that the park has a extremely bad mosquito issue, and I mean bad. We've been all over the United States and this place has them extremely bad. We usually walk our dogs a couple times a day but not this week. This was the worst, strike two. The park itself is very poorly maintained and is ran down. Located in an iffy area I never saw local law enforcement patrolling the area, strike three, we re out of here. AT&T cellular service was marginal as was OTA television reception. The only thing I can say good about this park is its proximity to Chicago and the ability to take the commuter METRA train to Wrigley Field and downtown. I sincerely doubt if we will ever come back to this campground.
Nice place, good find. We rode the Metra into (from Waukegan) Chicago a couple of times. Electric only. Water fill and dump station. We used the bath houses. There s also what is essentially an outhouse. Stay on the lakeside if you can. Yeah, there are bugs, but it s summer and they weren t bad when we were then in August.
Should have free parking overnight
50 amp hookups in a parking lot area. 30 amp are wooded. Park was clean, nice beach area, but restrooms were not as clean as they could be. Shower area were always in need of cleaning. Stayed for a week.