Tentrr is your private camping experience. We connect adventurers like you with private landowners who want to share their land so you can experience new places.
“I thought I would write a very detailed review because I had so many questions prior to my trip. Though this website has much more info than the clunky MI DNR website, I did find some contradicting info between the 2 websites.
We decided to try Tentrr for social distancing reasons and because my sister has a bad back and can't do tent camping anymore. For these reasons it worked out perfectly. The site is pretty isolated and we basically had our own beach. Out of all the Tentrr beach sites ours seemed like the most visible from the beach but I was fine with that. It let me see my kids when they were playing by the water. The Sleeper day beach is down a little ways and gets crowded. Site G is the last spot on state park land so most people didn't come down that far, there were some walkers and that was fine. For my sister, the bed was super comfy and she had no issues.
As for the conflicting info on this website and the DNR site: this site says it's .5 miles from the day beach bathrooms and the DNR site says it's 500 yards. I put my Strava on to find out the real distance....It was .18 miles from the bathrooms to our site. It was about .8 miles from the car to the site. You park at the end of the day beach lot and go down a nice path to your site. You walk by the other sites but they are up and out of view. Some of the path is sand and very hard to pull a standard fold up wagon with all your stuff. There was a wagon with beautiful big tires that was locked to a tree, we thought it must have belonged to another camper but it was there even after other people left. It must be a tentrr wagon for people to use except that we were not given the combo to the lock. At check-in I was given the phone # to our camp host. I would recommend calling to see if you can access the wagon. My shoulders were sore from trying to pull our wagon through sand. We did pack more than we needed to....The other contradiction on the websites is that this site says that dogs are allowed. The DNR site says no dogs.
One nice thing was the lidded garbage can with a bag that they supplied. We didn’t have to worry about hiding our trash at night. We did see raccoon prints on our table cloth so they are out there. We brought camping chairs with us but could’ve just used the Adirondack chairs and the benches that go around the table. It was very handy that we could move the benches around. The table had a cabinet attached to it that was weather proof.
We did have some rain, it was great to be able to go into the tentrr and play games until it passed. We also had some wind. The first night it rattled the windows of the dome tent, the second night it sounded like a hurricane in our little nylon tent. It was insane, there was no way we could sleep in that tent so my kids and I all went to sleep in the tentrr with my sister. The extra tent they supply had a very thin nylon floor like the walls of the tent. Most tent floors have a stronger material. I thought it odd until all the wind then I realized it probably lets the wind pass through easier. We had to put our bins in the tent when we went to sleep in the tentrr because I thought it would blow away. The tentrr made some creaking sounds from the metal beams but was way more protected from the wind. The next morning the red flag was out on the beach and the wind was still whipping. It was only like that on the camp sites and the beach. The rest of Caseville was fine.
Now to the one major con: the Tentrr is not completely closed off. All 4 corners of the tent are open to the elements (and bugs) at the bottom as is the plank flooring. If they used plywood it would be way better for keeping out bugs. The Tentrr had spiders and little white bugs that were in my sister’s bed. She knew they were harmless and had a restful sleep none the less. My sister took bags and whatever she could find to plug the gaps at the tent corners but you can’t do that with the flooring. The gaps were wide, you could see the ground. That would be the one and only thing to keep me from renting again. I prefer bug proof tents.
It’s pretty expensive but worth it for the location. The regular tent sites are located across a main road. There are also some Tentrr sites in the woods across the street but I don’t know why you would want to stay there. The only sites on the lake are the Tentrrs. The Tentrr sites are grassier and a little smaller than the regular sites. You couldn’t fit a kitchen tent or anything on the site. It might blow away if you could. The fire pit was smaller than your standard campsite ring but it had a screened lid that was necessary when the wind picked up. We didn’t cook over the fire but it had a grill attachment to do so.”
