Holland State Park's Lake Macatawa campground looks across Ottawa Beach Road to its own little swim beach, and the wooded loop goes dark under the trees while the last swimmers are still walking back. By breakfast the same beach has kids in the water again, and nobody touches the rig. It stays on its pad all week, plugged in with the awning out, while the days go to the lake, the channel, and Saugatuck down the shore.
Holland State Park keeps two campgrounds, and Lake Macatawa is the bigger one, on the lake side of the park away from the Lake Michigan beach. The wooded loop is the pick for a July afternoon with the air conditioning running in the shade, and the sunny loop trades that shade for open sky. Pads on both are mostly grass or gravel, and the Michigan DNR park page lists electric at all 211 sites, 30 or 50 amp, with potable water and the dump at a two-lane sanitation station.
The start of the season is the crowded stretch. Tulip Time takes over Holland in the first week of May, tulip beds in bloom in town while the Macatawa loops fill right alongside, and the festival and the park end up chasing the same rigs and the same pads. Oak Grove Resort on Ottawa Beach Road, a private park with full-hookup RV sites, closed for the 2026 season and lists its 2027 opening on the festival's first day, as of October 2026.
Saugatuck, Oval Beach and the chain ferry
Saugatuck is the day out, south along the shore, and the rig is back on its Macatawa pad by dark. Oval Beach gets the long afternoon on Lake Michigan, the kind of beach day a family plans the week around.
The other thing everyone does is the chain ferry, a small boat hauled across the Kalamazoo River by someone cranking the chain by hand. The city's ferry page lists room for 26 passengers and no motorized vehicles, with crossings every 10 to 15 minutes as riders turn up.
Saugatuck Dunes State Park, the paved beach campground by Big Red, and the tulips themselves are on the Holland campervan page, the better fit when it's just two of you on a short trip.