Traverse City State Park
October 2026
About
Keith J. Charters Traverse City State Park features over a quarter mile of beautiful sandy beach on East Grand Traverse Bay. The park is located two miles from downtown Traverse City and is accessible via the Traverse Area Recreational Trail for pedestrians and bicyclists. The campground is open year round with heated restrooms.
Keith J. Charters Traverse City State Park is a 45 minute drive from the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The National Cherry Festival, Traverse City Film Festival, and Horseshow by the Bay are among the community's more popular special events. The Traverse City region has a fantastic reputation for dozens of local wineries and craft breweries.
Traverse City State Park took on the name Keith J. Charters Traverse City State Park in July of 2011, in honor of Mr. Charter's dedicated service to the people of Michigan.
Phone: 231-922-5270
Is Traverse City State Park fully booked?
A campground showing no availability is almost never full for good. People cancel — plans change, weather turns, someone books three weekends and keeps one — and the site goes straight back into the booking system, usually without warning and often at odd hours. The reason sold-out campgrounds feel impossible is not that sites never free up; it is that nobody is watching at the moment they do.
CampHawk watches Traverse City State Park in Traverse City, MI for you. We recheck it every 15 seconds, around the clock, and the moment a site opens we send a text, an email and a push notification, with a link straight to the booking page.
Searching is free and needs no account — the calendar above is live right now. Watching Traverse City State Park for cancellations is the paid part.