Camp Dearborn Welcomes RV Campers Early
Camp Dearborn will welcome RV campers early this season. The official camping season of Camp Dearborn, May 1 through October 31, will be altered this year by accepting RV campers beginning Friday, April 20.
Lee Morris, interim camp manager, made the decision in response to the many calls he receives from anxious campers.
“The warm weather in March woke up the campers and they are ready to go,” said Morris. “We’ve had plenty of RV owners calling about the start of the season. Now I see we’ll be ready by late April, so we will make the change.”
The camp office is accepting RV site reservations now, but tent and cabin rentals will remain within the traditional season of May through October. The camping season with full recreational service begins mid-June and runs through Labor Day Weekend.
Camp Dearborn offers 191 temporary RV sites, 118 tents, 30 rustic cabins and eight new resort cabins. Temporary sites are either full hook-up or electric only and can be reserved by calling either of the Camp offices: Dearborn Recreation Department at 313-943-2350 or Milford Camp Office at 248-684-6000.
In addition to the popular camping area, Camp Dearborn offers acres of picnic area equipped with tables and grills alongside a beautiful half-mile beach and swimming lake. The Camp is open to the public daily, 7 a.m. until 10 p.m.
Admission at the gate is $4 per car for residents of Dearborn or Milford, $6 per car for all others and $10 per car for all special event dates.
Season passes are available for frequent visitors at the rate of $25 for residents of Dearborn or Milford and $35 for the general public.
More information about Camp Dearborn and scheduled events can be found at www.campdearborn.com, the Camp Dearborn Official Page on Facebook, or by calling either of the Camp offices.
April 18th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Any one have idea as to whether Camp Dearborn brings in sufficient revenue each year to justify the City’s expense of ownership? As much as we all enjoy the hefty $2.00 discount off admission for being Dearborn residents, its seems like this is sort of an odd thing for the City to continue to be involved with unless it actually makes some significant money each year.
April 21st, 2012 at 4:51 pm
Chris, just a guess – – but, Camp Dearborn brings in the same revenue as the new Fatburger on Mich. Ave. & Military each year.
April 22nd, 2012 at 10:22 am
Big Boy is going to try to settle his lawsuits against the City and his annual budget problems by trying to sell the Camp, as there is no other way to cover up for his ineptitude to run our City.
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:19 pm
oh people of Dearborn I mayor mcheese have no money, i’ll close pools, libraries, & cut whatever needs to be for the budget. i raise the millage,, dupe you dummies for an additional tax raise, prostitute the library funding for more, then all of a sudden i have money to build year cabins at camp dearborn. what a bunch of bull—- from this windbag.
April 24th, 2012 at 7:58 am
The last I remember, is that Camp Dearborn has made net income on operating costs, $100,000 to $300,000 per year for about the last 5 years. I also know that there are oil and gas wells in Camp that generate about $300,000 per year for Camp Dearborn. What is not mentioned above operating costs are maintenance and upgrade expenses, and Camp has had a number of expensive upgrades the past 5 years or so.
April 24th, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Michael,
Are you saying Jed, Jethro Bodine, Granny, Elly May etc. are living at Camp Dearborn? If this is true, you can bet Milburn Drysdale won’t be too far behind!! Don’t forget to feed Duke. We won’t have any problems anymore, thanks! (:>)
April 24th, 2012 at 9:23 pm
hey deep why is it that dumbo oreilly gives milford slugs a discount to camp they did nothing to support camp, but they also get a resident rate to play golf when the tax paying resident of dearborn gets zero perks at up the creek golf course. Who paid to build that facility the milford snobs ??
April 25th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Puddin’ – –
Come and listen to a story ’bout a man named McCheese
Poor City Mayor barely kept the Pools and Libraries
Then one day he was shooting for some food,
And up through the ground come a bubbling crude (Oil that is, black gold, Milford tea)!
Well the first thing you know old McCheese’s a Billionaire
Kin folk said Mayor move away from there
Said Camp Dearborn is the place you oughta be
So he loaded up the truck and he moved to Oakland County!
(Camp Dearborn that is, Swimming Pools, and RV’s)
Well now it’s time to say goodbye to McCheese and all his kin
They would like to thank you folks for kindly dropping in
You’re all invited back again to this locality
To have a heaping helping of their hospitality
(Mayor McCheese, that’s what they call him now,
Nice folks Y’all come back now, ya hear?)
November 30th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
Is there any way to find out who to contact regarding purchasing one of the campers already on the grounds? I noticed they had some for sale during the summer when I was there with my friends. I would like to purchase one for my family. Kindly give the information if you have it. Thank you