Onaway State Park, Onaway

Great place to enjoy a day in the water. Could use some more parking for boat trailers maybe side parking for single cars. Fishing was soso memorial day. Two Pike and one rock bass.

Fantastic park! The staff is so very friendly and helpful! The grounds are magnificent.

The park offers nice campsites for small travel trailers. However, for tenters, the facilities for bathrooms and showers are old and icky looking. If you can get past that? It's PERFECT. We were right off the water, our own little lake spot. Nice, big fire pits a toddler can't fall into unintentionally. We enjoyed it!!!

It's ok depending on which campsite. Kind of tight but very nice along the lake. This is one of the first state parks in Michigan, and not a lot has been done to it since it seems. Campground is completely unpaved which is fine if it doesn't rain. Park rangers are nice and ubiquitous to the point that squatters will have to pay if they're here more than a couple hours. The trash services consist of 1970's era wire baskets that tend to disappear from time to time, which ain't terribly cool if you've have only one per ~25 campsites. Except for beach areas, water is shallow for a long way out with a pebble bottom. Day use area is mowed and had a sand volleyball court and that's about it.

The campsite is average, with the best sites being down along the beach. There were a lot of aggressive bees that were drawn to anything colorful so given my husband has a bee allergy that wasn't a plus. The website had a swimmer's itch warning for Black Lake, so no swimming for us. The lake was beautiful, but the beach wasn't very nice. The rangers were RUDE, and a woman walked around repeatedly throughout the day. Normally I like a presence, but these rangers were way over the top. I even had one give me a talking to because they didn't like me approaching the side door (which looks like a main door) of their station. We finally said forget it, and packed up. We won't be back.