River Road RV Park and Campground 600 River Road, Ontonagon, MI 49953

"We stayed here for two weeks. The campground is located just outside downtown Ontonagon (with a decent grocery store a short drive away) but only 30 minutes away from Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. As you approach the campground, enter the gravel driveway on the right that brings you to the front of the office to check in. We paid for our stay via check. All of the roads in the campground are gravel. Most if not all of the RV sites are pull-through sites with either gravel or grass pads with grass lawns. All sites have a fire ring and at least one picnic table. A few sites have trees that provide some shade, but most did not. We were in site 19, which is a very long pull-through site that has a grass pad and shares a shade tree with site 20. The lowest branches on our side of the tree looked low enough to touch our roof on our way out, so we swung a bit left when we departed. Site 20, on the passenger side, was fairly close, so much so that their water connection was almost in our patio area (we didn't have a neighbor on our driver's side, so never got a feel for how tight the space was on that side). The other negative about the site was that the sewer connection was tall and uphill of where we parked, and the screw threads were broken. I eventtually gave up trying to dump uphill and waited until we were hooked up so I could back up the camper and make the sewer hose as short as possible. In terms of amenities, there is a laundry room at the back end of the office building, a bathhouse with soda vending machines in the front and several stalls and showers for each gender, a large rack with firewood bundles to purchase, a small playground, and a dump station. Across the street from the main entrance is a floating dock on the Ontonagon River. There is no dog park, but there are plenty of open spaces to walk your dog along the front of the campground and around the edges. Just be aware that in the summer there are a lot of mosquitos along those edges with the high grasses and the trees. In terms of cell service, the speed tests I took with our Verizon Jetpack with MIMO antenna when we got there weren't great: I saw 2Mbps down and 1 up. However, most days I was able to work without much trouble, and some evenings I was able to stream video with some buffering. My AT&T service with my smartphone was better and more consistent, with speeds of 186Mbps down and 15 up. The campground does offer WiFi. Sometimes it was as bad as the Verizon bandwidth, but I did one speed test with it that clocked in at 7.4 down and 4 up. Even if you come here to visit other attractions, pick a nice evening to go to the beach near Lakeshore Park in Ontonagon and watch the sunset."

"This RV park was nice and the staff was friendly. It’s across the street from Ontonagon River and on the other side of the town. The sites are a nice size and have full hook up. The bath house is clean and the property is cared for around the sites. The office is a desk inside a private residence and there is no camp store. The laundry room and the office both smell of cigarette smoke. And the sites, while roomy, face one another."

"Nice level pull-thru site. The sites are driver side to driver side so your neighbors connections are not next to your patio. The park was quite and centrally located to the area attractions."

"We were fortunate to find this place when the Porcupine Mtn site was too small and crowded. This campground was clean with nice pull through sites. It is right on the beautiful Ontonagan River. We could walk dogs around the nice quiet road and even crossed a trestle over the river to checkout the parks on the other side. The owners were personable and kind. We are planning a longer stay there next year."

"We loved this campground. The only reason for 4 not 5 stars was the laundry room which really needs some updating. Our site was spacious with nice grass. I’d definitely return if in the area again."