Allegan State Game Area, MI - Ely Lake Campground

Allegan State Game Area, MI - Ely Lake Campground

Are you ready for a campfire? Here is a last minute camping trip to SW Michigan. You can get the sites when you get there. ($17 per night, It is self pay so bring exact change or a check.) We are trying to get sites from #31 to #41. You may come for 1 or 2 nights.

Allegan State Game Area is about 2:15 hour drive from Chicago.

If interested, we will be hike 5.8 or 10.9 miles hike on Saturday around Swan Creek. For more information about the hike, click here.

We will be staying at Ely Lake Campgrounds on Individual Sites at Allegan State Game Area for 2 nights. Pit toilets only. No showers or flush toilets and no electricity. The campsites are $17 per night. ($8.50 if you are over 62 with ID, ?Make a copy of driver's license and place in envelope when you pay.) You can have 4 people, 2 tents, and 2 cars per site.

We are close to Fennville (8 miles), Allegan (12 miles), Saugatuck - on Lake Michigan (18 miles), and Holland - Tulip Fest is happening (22 miles).

Ely Lake Campgrounds:
Ely Lake Campground's Address: 5020 - 116th. Ave., Fennville, Michigan 49010 GPS: 42.533933, -85.829832
Campground Information, click here.
Campground Map, click here.

About Allegan State Game Area:

Nearly 50,000 acres of family fun. Pitch your tent beside a cold-running stream or deep-woods pond and relish in the tranquility that surrounds you. One campgrounds with over 20 miles of hiking trails. Bird watchers can enjoy the spring and fall migrations of waterfowl, warblers and many other species. There are canoe routes, much of which passes through country little changed from the days when it was home to the Ottawa, Potawatomi and Chippewa Indians.

Hiking Trails Map, click here.

This is a great trip. I hope you can make it.

Kevin