National Park System · MI

Camping in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

The Recreation.gov record puts 7 campgrounds inside the park. Of those, 5 take reservations and 2 are first-come, first-served. Entrance fees, alerts and hours for the park itself are on our sister site, Park Atlas.

7 campgrounds2 first-come2 with hookups

The park in figures

vehicle entrance fee
$25
recreation visits in 2025
1,601,747
campsites
283
campgrounds take reservations
5 of 7
longest RV or trailer allowed
40 ft

The entrance fee and visit count come from Park Atlas open data. The campground figures are totals across the 7 Recreation.gov records listed below, and the rig length is the longest any one of them allows.

Every campground

CampgroundSites
Platte River Campground179
D.H. Day Campground87
White Pine Backcountry Campground Permits7
South Manitou Group Campground6
D.H. Day Group Campground4
Popple Campground - South Manitou Island·
Village Campground - North Manitou Island·
Park campgrounds book out fastest of any on Recreation.gov. Most open six months ahead at 10 a.m. Eastern; the first-come loops are the fallback when the window is gone. The first-come playbook