Ambrose Lake Michigan State Forest Campground Tour

Thinking about taking a camping trip to the Rose City or West Branch area of Michigan? Let's take a quick full tour of Ambrose Lake State Forest Campground. This is a rustic campground (no running water or electricity), is off road vehicle friendly, situated with campsites on the water of the lake and off, spacious and private campsites that you can ride your off road vehicle right from to get to the trails.
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[@bettymk1]

Planning to camp here soon. Very helpful!

[@DirtyJakTheDustyBean]

Thank you for watching! Nice campground, lake and trails!

[@Robert-zr3xw]

Thanks for the video. Watching now from Clinton Township, MI

[@DirtyJakTheDustyBean]

Thanks for stopping in

[@bretlange969]

Very nice campground, if you dont mind listening to generators run all day.

[@DirtyJakTheDustyBean]

We were fortunate during this stay, maybe a total of 3-5 hours during daylight hours they were running. Silent once the sun started going down.

[@santanarving]

Thank you! headed up to that area to ride in a couple of weeks and now we know where we are going to camp. Great video!

[@DirtyJakTheDustyBean]

Great area to ride and camp!

[@santanarving]

@@DirtyJakTheDustyBean Good place for over 50 inch? We have a honda pioneer 1000

[@DirtyJakTheDustyBean]

@@santanarvingnot positive on that one as we bounce on and off the 50inch or less and the area is great for that. I’d assume it’s still pretty good as long as you can also ride into the surrounding areas

[@wanderingoglethorpe]

It's a good little fishing lake, definitely not worth going to just to fish it in peak season but it's bigger than it looks and has some unique characteristics to it. It's also pretty shallow for the most part. I made a short video on it, definitely worth the paddle if you bring a kayak. If you follow the lake northwest there's a channel that leads to another portion of the lake with some houses on it. When we went in the summer (July) we were lucky to get a spot and there was a ton of people running generators at the camp. There was ORV traffic till probably 1 or 2 in the morning. Definitely not the place to go if you're looking for peace and quiet in the summer.

[@DirtyJakTheDustyBean]

I'll have to check out your video. We also did a video on our trip there, we were very lucky (it was a bit cold though) there were maybe 10 other groups camping and for our stay it was pretty quiet. I would say any campground we have been to is a hit and miss with the generators, some run em and you can't hear them they are so quiet while others run em 24 hours a day and it sounds like metal grinding and very loud.

[@thomasdowen9959]

FYI, no picture all black just voice.

[@DirtyJakTheDustyBean]

Not sure why that would happen, working fine for us right now. Thanks for letting us know