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Booking provider: Michigan State Parks

Tippy Dam Recreation Area

Brethren, MI

October 2026

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About

This small rustic campground is located at the Tippy Dam Pond boating access site. It is the only boating access site managed by the Parks and Recreation Division that allows overnight camping.

Phone: (231) 848-4880

Is Tippy Dam Recreation Area 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 Tippy Dam Recreation Area in Brethren, 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 Tippy Dam Recreation Area for cancellations is the paid part.

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