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We kicked off the 2009 camping season with a quick trip to Proud Lake North of Wixom. We went to Taylor Beach on Friday and I got the water system up and running, then Saturday we were off on the 45 minute trip to Proud Lake. It is in a more residential area that I expected, but it is a nice park. It is actually a State Rec Are so there is a lot of land, the campground is off to one side. The lake is down a steep hill, there is a boat launch, and it looks like there is a swimming area a ways down from there. We saw a swan on the lake when we walked down to check out the lake. The park is nice, it is a ways off the road and you forget you are in Metro Detroit. Nice pine trees all around. We had site 35 on the lake side. The sites near the lake are narrow, I did a parallel parking job which was easy as nobody else was around. The power set up was odd, as some sites share a box... our was in the middle of our site and it servered 2 sites... so power for the other site would string across your site and by the fire pit. The do have walking trails, which are more like 2 track roads through the woods, we did a walk on Saturday and enjoyed the nice spring day.
There were maybe a dozen sites filled, with a few tents... not for me as the temp was in the low 30's. On Sunday morning the campground host (yes there was one there in April) had an easter egg hunt that the kids all enjoyed, we were not expecting that to it was a nice bonus for the kids. My son wants to go back, probably because they had a nice basketball court there (and he forgot his basketball). I liked it because it was close by and the water was on early in the season. Over all it was a nice trip and a nice park.
