Masse Homestead Campground

Updated 2025 🌄 **Best backcountry view in the park for fall colors!!!** �🍂 ❤️ **Love this site for the dune access.** 🏜️ **The view on top of the dune above campsites is worth carrying water here, WOW!!!!!** 😍 The trail (climb) to the top of the dune by campsites is the steepest in the area, not for the faint of heart. 💪 Just a short hike to the group campsite is an “easier” climb. 🥾 Carry water 💧, food 🥪, warm clothes �, and first aid 🩹 up, and plan on spending some time up on top of these giant dunes. ⏳ 🏕️ **Very unassuming plain campsite.** open pit toilet 🚽 5 miles from Grand Sable Visitor Center. � When you hike from Grand Sable Visitor Center with a pack, do not be tempted to climb the dunes ⛔—the trail is below and/or south of the dunes for the entire trail. Set up camp then exp

I had not intended to stop at this campground. When I went on a cross-Pictured-Rocks hike in 2018 and I was less in shape then I realized and had to stop here rather than go all the way to Au Sable East as I had expected. The upsides are it affords you that opportunity, has bear boxes, and is very flat, the downside is there is no water and an easy opportunity to purify water without climbing up, down, and back up the dunes is about 2.5 miles in either directions (Lake Superior heading West and Grand Sable Lake heading East). Decide carefully.

I was ultimately unable to access his campsite due to lack of signage. Not only are there no signs for how to access this campground on any of the surrounding roads, but the two roads that might have gotten me there were totally muddy, and not suitable for a sedan. I wasn’t able to get my deposit for the campground back, as you need to cancel by 12am that day to qualify. Unless you are willing to trek for a while to find this spot, please seek out one of the more well-marked campgrounds in the area.