Bessemer Campgrounds

Arranged from west to east. The lodgings along Black River Road, from Big Powderhorn to Black River Harbor, come first.

ALPINE TRAILER PARK CAMPGROUND
(906) 667-0737
This 48-site private campground on U.S. 2 has an unusually scenic location for being on a highway. It's a good location if you plan to visit several places in the area. Attentive hosts offer mini-golf and fishing in a little pond. There's a playground, hot showers, laundromat, and dump station. Cable TV hookups. 20 and 30 amp service. All are pull-through sites, all with water, many with sewer hookup. Some handle very big rigs. Some sites are wooded. 16 tent sites ($17.50 for 2) are at the back overlooking the Black River. Full hookup sites average $30/night for two. $1/extra person.

E8072 U.S. Hwy. 2. On the north side of U.S. 2, two miles west of Wakefield and 2 miles east of Bessemer. Open year-round. Water is turned off in winter, available at the service building and dump station. Handicap access: works for many. Problems with wheelchairs. Call.

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BESSEMER
POINTS OF INTEREST

Downtown Bessemer. A dramatic city hall. a clothing store from 1887, and a local history museum with the renovated White Birch Tavern ... more

Copper Peak Ski Flying Hill. Visitors can enjoy the world's highest man-made ski-flying hill and one of the Midwest's most awesome views, amazing in fall color season. A chair lift or road reaches the observation platform 18 stories above CR 513. The daring can walk up another 8 stories toward the sky. ... more

Gabbro Falls. A 40-foot plunge through a deep Black River gorge makes for one of the U.P.'s most memorable (but not that visited) waterfalls ... more

Black River waterfalls & Black River Scenic Byway. Five memorable, very different waterfalls in one area testify to the power and varied character of water ... more

Powderhorn Falls. Another of Gogebic's charming falls, this one with a swimming hole ... more

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