Michigan City Campground, Michigan City

We stayed at this campground for a week, without having seen or camped here before. We probably won’t ever stay here again. The people were friendly and the campground itself was kept clean. The pool was clean and bathrooms were most of the time. The owners were trying to spruce it up a bit by adding fountains, small ponds and flowers. They were nice touches but not quite enough to make us want to go back. They claim to have a heated pool and although it was a bit warmer than Lake Michigan, the solar cover didn’t heat it enough for them to claim ‘heated pool’, the bathrooms were antiquated with shower fixtures that are probably older than I am. The small roads, and dead end roads, make it hard to navigate a camper but the worse part for us was the campsite itself. The size of the site was minuscule. We had enough room to park the camper and put out the awning, and that was it. Our car was parked sideways in front of the camper and had to sit partway on the road. The campground has only one bathroom and we constantly had people walking through our campsite, even while we sitting out there. When campsites are this small you can pretty much reach out and touch everyone and having people that close to us was a little unnerving. Whenever we decided to have a campfire I had to move the car so that the paint wouldn’t melt. Our site was completely stone with a small cement patio. There wasn’t a single blade of grass, no room for a tent, and the campground charged an extra ten dollars a night for a tent anyways. The full hook-up was nice but our neighbors sewage hose was about six feet from our camper door. I can’t help but wonder how sanitary that is. My kids hated this campground and wanted to go home from the get go. This was not their idea of camping. They wanted to cook over the open fire, play games on the lot, sleep in the tent and ride bikes. They wanted to have fires at night that we could all sit around and make snacks, tell stories, the usual. I’m with them – this didn’t seem like camping. There is quite a bit to do in the area and we tried to find something to do every day, just to get away from the camper but that gets expensive. There is the Indiana Dunes State park less than thirty minutes away, next time we’re in that portion of Indiana we will camp there. We were camping in a twenty foot camper.