Race nights at Michigan International Speedway run on fire pits, folding chairs and tailgate smoke drifting over the Irish Hills outside Brooklyn. Motorhomes line the two-mile oval and spread across the infield, and the grills are going long before the green flag. On race day the engines come up to full volume, and whole campgrounds empty through the tunnel walkway to the gate.
The track sells the camping as the weekend itself, and the summer NASCAR race is the week the whole area plans around. As of October 2026 the speedway lists one NASCAR weekend for 2027, in mid-June, with a truck race on Saturday and the FireKeepers Casino 400 on Sunday. Twelve campgrounds wrap the track in premium, family and party tiers, every site is reserved, and five of them, Turn 1 Resort and the Infield among them, were already sold out with a waitlist at that same check.
So the site comes first and the motorhome second, because the campground you land in decides which rig works. Race week also fills every pad in the Irish Hills, W.J. Hayes State Park included, and the race crowd is chasing the same motorhomes you are. If a lake week nearby overlaps the race, book it as early as you would the race itself.
Camping the speedway, from Turn 1 Resort to the infield
Turn 1 Resort is the comfortable way to do the weekend, a paved campground off the US-12 entrance where the air conditioning can run through a hot June afternoon and the hose stays connected. Its 28 sites run about 25 by 50 feet with 50-amp electric and water, and nearly half are drive-through, which spares a first-time driver from backing a rented motorhome into a crowded row.
The infield puts you inside the oval with racing on every side. Its reserved sites run about 19 by 45 feet and require infield admission, so the trade for the view is less elbow room than Turn 1. If it's just two of you, a smaller rig from the Michigan listings leaves more of that pad for chairs and a fire ring.
High Banks, off M-50, gives you more room per site than Turn 1, with sites about 35 by 45 feet on asphalt with 30-amp electric or on grass with none. Electric sites need an adapter handed out at entry, and the dump station is next door in the M-50 Creekside campground. Brooklyn Trails, off Brooklyn Highway, runs smaller at about 20 by 40 feet and lists a dump station and a convenience store but no hookups, so a rig there lives on its tanks and generator for the weekend.
Every site takes one steering wheel and up to eight people, so a group following the motorhome in a car needs a second site for it. Units park about four feet apart, close enough that the neighbors' fire ring becomes part of your evening.
W.J. Hayes State Park on Round and Wamplers lakes
Hayes is the quiet side of Brooklyn, a state park campground under hardwoods with Round Lake, a small kettle pond, right at the edge of the loops. Wamplers Lake has the swimming beach across the road, and kayak and paddleboard rentals run from Memorial Day through Labor Day, held for campground guests on weekends. It's about the closest state-run base to the speedway, which makes it a race-week option too if you book it early.
The modern campground has 180 sites in two loops, each with an asphalt pad and 20- or 30-amp electric, and only sites 1 through 10 add a water hookup. Everyone else fills tanks and dumps at a three-lane sanitation station with potable water, an easy stop on the way out after a parked week. Outside race week, DNR points to plenty of midweek availability, so a Sunday-to-Friday stay with the awning out is the straightforward booking.
Two more state parks sit within five miles for a day off the water while the motorhome stays parked at Hayes. Cambridge Junction Historic State Park has Walker Tavern, a reconstructed 1840s barn, vintage baseball and a farmers market, and Watkins Lake State Park is just as close. The Waterloo and Pinckney recreation areas, the lake-and-trail country toward Ann Arbor, are covered on the Ann Arbor trip page.
For a longer run north to the Straits and the Upper Peninsula, the Michigan RV page lays out the routes.