Dune Town Camp-Resort (formerly Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park) — Hotel in Golden Township

So disappointing...we have been to a Jellystone Park every year with our 2 grandsons for 8 years now. This is the first time at Silver Lake Jellystone. We were so disappointed, from the minute we pulled in we knew we had made a mistake. The site was so uneven that we had to borrow 4 cement blocks to get our travel trailer level and our slide out was so close to the neighbors fire pit that we were concerned all week. The activities for the kids were null and void. Our boys love to see the characters and they literally come out 2 times a day for about 30 minutes. Usually one character at a time. They did a bike parade and the golf cart carrying Yogi went so fast around the park that the kids couldn't keep up and the parents were literally running to try and keep up with their kids. The crafts were so lame. They brought out 6-8 rolls of crepe paper for the kids to decorate their bikes. Fortunately we had brought our own decorations. The only decent craft was tye dye shirts. Our boys like to get Jellystone t-shirts/sweatshirts every year and they didn't have any in the ranger station, they ended up with Silver Lake Sand Dune sweatshirts instead. The boys were bored. We rarely leave the park because there is so much to do at Jellystone, but that time we left nearly every day to find things to entertain the boys because the park activities were so lame. Thank goodness for Craig's Cruisers and the sand dunes being so close, but it made for a much more expensive vacation. They have one very small playground that is geared for little tikes. The park itself was clean, the restrooms and pool area was clean and tidy. There was some sewage smell at times but I guess that can't always be helped. There are just so many more places in Michigan/Indiana that we can go and have way more fun. We made the best of our week with the grandsons because we look forward to that every year, but we definitely would not recommend this park as a Jellystone Park, its just a campground, period. We won't be back. Even our grandsons said on the way home, let's try somewhere else next year, that wasn't that much fun there. So disappointed. We will be heading back to our all time favorite,...

We loved our experience here - for the kids.

If you don't plan to stay out late and you sit by the fire like a mouse after 11 pm this is the campground for you!!! Don't get me wrong we absolutely loved this campground. They are just extremely strict on their rules, understandably, being a family oriented campground. We had a large group of about 15 adults and 5 children under 4. We put the kids to bed and the adults like to have their adult time. If we weren't literally whispering to each other the ranger would politely ask us to bring it down a notch. At 1 am if you weren't in your camper they told you it was after 1 and you had to be in your unit and to let the fire burn out on it's own. It's all in the rules and wasn't a surprise to us. We knew this going in, we just didn't know how strict it would be since it was a holiday weekend. The only thing that took us by surprise was one of the members in our group came outside of their motor home to have a cigarette after 1 am and the ranger told him/her they had to get back in the unit. Allowed him/her to finish their cigarette but was so shocked at how strict it really was. We all kind of discussed we may have liked it better if it was midnight down to a whisper and 2 am in your unit, but again it is a kid friendly campground and the kids LOVED this campground!! I do not have kids myself but I have nieces and nephews that came to enjoy all of the activities.

The wifi was extremely bogged down - possibly due to the holiday weekend, no one had cell phone service on their phone if they were with Verizon, one person in our group had an AT&T phone and had service - not a big deal to me other then when someone was already out grabbing things from the store and we realized we needed something else. I like being disconnected while camping - my other campers with me.... not so much.

The location is PERFECT!! Within walking distance to everything - Parrot's Landing Jeep rentals, putt putt, stores, go carts, swan paddle boat - literally so much to do! The kids never got bored and neither did the adults! We will definitely be returning with a better understanding of the strictness of the rules. That way we won't be...

First time staying here. Overall it was good. The location is great and the staff was friendly. We will be back mostly because the location is great. There were a few things we definitely thought could be improved upon. 1 - the bathrooms were ALWAYS dirty and frequently out of toilet paper or had stalls that were locked while unoccupied. I don’t know if this was kids locking the doors and crawling out or if they were out of order - there wasn’t anything posted. 2- Showers were also very dirty and water was lukewarm. 3 - There aren’t any pull through sites and aren’t many full hook up sites. We had a back in site and it was VERY tight - several cars had to move in order for us to get in these. The site itself was very large and well maintained though. 4- There is only one dump station in the middle of the park and the way the one way lanes are set up you have to go up and down every lane to get to it. So that was a pain. 5 - Somethings we usually see at other campgrounds that weren’t offered here were - being able to leave a card on file for store purchases (very handy with kids), wood delivery, and text communications about anything going on or if you have questions. The last part don’t really matter much though because within a couple miles radius of the campground we had zero cell service whatsoever and despite the fact the campground has WiFi - we weren’t able to get on it…and it wasn’t just our cell carrier either, we asked other campers. We don’t go camping to sit on screens but there was some bad weather and we couldn’t look up things to do or get directions to places we wanted to go or call home to check in on things. BUT despite all the things that we felt were lacking we will be back next year because it’s a great spot and the campground as a whole was taken good care of aside from the bathrooms and showers. I saw the bathrooms being cleaned right before we checked out and that was the only time I had seen it done over the course of 5 days. They don’t really have anything to offer in terms of food but there are plenty of places within walking distance to get a bite to eat and being right next door to a lot of...