Sand Lake Rec Area Cg (FR 5728) in MI -- Camping Rules & Access

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Sand Lake Rec Area Cg (FR 5728) in MI

Road corridorHuron-Manistee NF, Manistee Ranger District

19 mi from Baldwin

Maps 836 ft

Dispersed camping generally allowed

U.S. Forest Service default; a local order can restrict it.

Huron-Manistee National Forests ↗

Motor-vehicle season 5/1–10/30Stay limit: 16 consecutive days · within 30 days · after 16 days, all persons and camping equipment must leave the National Forest for two weeks
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Road Access

Easy
  • All 2.4 miles of this road are maintained for passenger-car comfort, paved the whole way.
  • Terrain estimates suggest level ground alongside most of this road; parking areas are not verified.
  • Winds through 9 switchbacks.
  • Dead-end road; turnaround space is not mapped.

Setting

Some privacy
  • Moderately separated here.
  • The Sand Lake shoreline is 0.1 mi off.
  • Open country, with nothing named rising within 30 miles.
  • Estimated night sky: Bortle 3, a dark rural sky.

Rules

  • Camping within two hundred (200) feet of any body of water, except at designated sites.
  • Camping rules
  • Current fire orders

Climate averages

October normals 38–58°F, 4.1″ precipitation. Monthly averages, PRISM 1991–2020.

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