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ONAWAY STATE PARK RETURNS TO ITS SEMI-MODERN ROOTS LANSING--The status of the campground at Onaway State Park
has been changed from modern to semi-modern, Department of
Natural Resources officials announced today. The campground
will continue to provide visitors with running water, flush
toilets and electrical hook-ups, but the shower facilities
will be closed to visitor use. The existing showers in the
toilet building, constructed in the mid-1970s, do not
satisfy health department capacity codes.
Planners in the DNR Parks and Recreation Bureau considered
several options that addressed the health department
violation. "One option was to close half the campsites in
order to meet the proper ratio," said Rodney Stokes, Parks
and Recreation Chief. "However, closing the shower
facilities will have far less impact on our users. This
decision was made in the best interests of serving the
majority of our customers."
More than 30 percent of campers at Onaway use recreational
vehicles that have showers on board. There also is a
sanitation station available for both gray and brown water
disposal.
A semi-modern campground usually has either electrical hook-
ups at each site and vault toilets, or no electrical hook-
ups and running water with flush toilets. Onaway State Park,
which will reduce its camping fee to $9 per night, will have
both running water with flush toilets and electrical hook-
ups.
As part of the Clean Michigan Initiative, which is providing
$50 million to the DNR to make important infrastructure
improvements within our parks system over the next five
years, the DNR has identified the replacement or upgrade of
the existing toilet/shower building at Onaway as a potential
future CMI project.
Source: MDNR
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