My son turned 8 this year and to keep the birthday tradition alive we went west. Duck Creek RV Resort is located right outside the gates of Michigan Adventures park in Muskegon, Michigan. And it’s well worth the drive for our family. It’s about a 4-5 hour drive (including bathroom and hungry machine breaks).
The park is beautiful, there’s a lot of woods surrounding the park, and there was even wild turkeys in the woods just on the edge of the park. (Quite exciting for the kids!)
The pool is made for kids, there’s a zero entry wadding area for them and it’s only 1 1/2 ft deep. There’s also a water fountain that the kids loved to play under. That area opens to the larger swim area that goes from 3 feet to 5. And they had a hot tub! The first I’ve seen so far, and greatly appreciated! That empties into the pool so that helps to keep the swimming area warm, and the whole pool is shaped like a duck!
Here’s our comparison list:
- Activities for the kids – No
- Pool – Yes and it’s heated!
- Full Hook Up – Yes
- Wifi – Yes
- Cable – Yes
- Playground – Yes
- Grocery Store – No, but they do sell ice and firewood
- Ice Cream – No
- Paved Roads – Yes
- Paved Paths – Yes
- Grass Lots – Yes, and they have flowers
- Shade Trees – No, there’s a few young trees around
- Friendly Campers – Yes, and lots of kids and young families
- Friendly Staff – Yes
- Overall Clean – Yes
Our site was 40 right on the corner by the pool. I’d say it’s one of the best sites, there’s another site, #82, is right next to and faces the playground and would be perfect for our next stay. We’re thinking Labor Day next year. The staff seemed nice and pretty much left you alone. There wasn’t any planned activities for the kids, but we had enough to do. All the families and kids we’re very friendly, unlike some other west side parks we’ve been to (River Ridge).
Muskegon is centrally located on the west side of Michigan. It’s about a 1/2 hour south to Grand Haven, which has awesome beaches by the way, and a great toy store for the kids. You can also go north to Pentwater or Silver Lake for a day trip and to see the sand dunes. And then there’s Michigan Adventures right outside of the park and is a theme park with rides and half water park. We’ve been there 3 times now and it’s fun and not too big like Cedar Point.
Do you ever make it over to the west side of Michigan and where have you stayed? Where do you visit?
(Images: Duck Creek and myself)
OMG….look at the playground!!!! Its awesome, I’m sure your kids had a blast. When we went camping as kids, having a pool at the campground was something my parents looked for as we loved the water, loved to swim!!!
It was the best playground I’ve seen by far! It was huge, had benches for the parents, and the most important ring bar for my daughter. She loves to do flips on those. We always look for a pool, I don’t like to swim in lakes or ponds, I had fish nibble on my toes when I was at camp one year and those spooks me.
Growing up we always called those water fountains “mushrooms”
I love the west side of the state! Grand Haven and Pentwater are definitely two of my favorite cities. Glad you had a good time camping!
the owners of this park are not so kind , their father who is security yelled at my minor children and said obscenities to them , then when i corrected him , he said he was going to have me throw out of the park , asked me for my site number and said he was going to come to my site all night and check on us threw our windows !! pervert!!!! thenext morning when i complained the owners in their black fors truck pulled up almost hitting my kids and told us to leave and we has 20 min to get out !!!! very rude . rude people take your 55 dollars and go to the state park !! much safer and no problems . him and his wife , who was totally out of control wanted not t hear how their father acted towards children !!! nice park but my kids come first , no shuttle to the park ? and charge 10 dollars for EARLY check in and they had 30 open sites …..believe me i have camped at over 200 camp grounds and i wouldnt trust theses people ….4 other camp sites witihn 4 miles from here . mr owner now is this SLANDER ?
Wow Jay! Sorry to hear about your horrible stay. Who are the owners? I don’t know if we saw them, someone did escort us to our site which I thought was stupid. (We’ve camped a ton and don’t need help driving through the park and have no problems backing into our sites). Did this happen recently? We got there early on our stay and didn’t have to pay an extra charge, and that sounds crazy! I’ve have seen late checkout charges but never early. What other parks have you been to that are good?