NMI Village Campground

Camping on North Manitou Island

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Beach/Water Access, Toilet - Vault/Composting

Looking for a place of quiet solitude and natural beauty where you can escape civilization and recharge with a subconscious meditation with nature? where you could have miles of beach entirely to yourself? where you can hike along Lake Michigan for miles? Welcome to North Manitou Island.

Leave no trace camping is the rule. There is one campground in the village area with eight designated campsites, two fire rings and one outhouse. The Village Campground is the ONLY place on the island that a fire is allowed. Camping in the campground is not mandatory, though; you may camp anywhere on the island that is 300 feet away from the Lake Michigan high water mark, lakes, streams, ponds, springs, buildings, or other camps and 100 feet from trails.

Potable water is available only at the ranger station. There are outhouses only at the ranger station and Village Campground. All water should be boiled and/or treated with appropriate purifiers.

Be sure to review the Backcountry Camping Regulations before you embark.