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Camping

Harrington Beach State Park

The campground at Harrington Beach State Park will be open April 29 through Sept. 1, 2024, and will then close for road construction. All campsites and the accessible cabin will be unavailable for reservations after Labor Day (Sept. 2, 2024).

Harrington Beach State Park has a family campground, with five walk-in sites, a group campsite, an accessible cabin for people with disabilities and a kayak site.

Reservations

Reserve a campsite online.

Family campground

The park has a 69-unit family campground, including 31 sites with electrical hookups. Each campsite has a campfire ring and a picnic table.

During the summer season, showers, flush toilets and laundry facilities are available in the family campground. A trailer dump station and a freshwater fill-up station are available in the park.

Group campsite

The group campsite is a non-electric, reservable site for up to 30 visitors. The campsite has two campfire rings and five picnic tables. The site is tent-only, but a one-wheeled camping unit can be set up in the parking lot. The parking lot can hold 14 vehicles. Pets are allowed.

Accessible cabin

An accessible cabin for people with disabilities is available at Harrington Beach State Park. The cabin has kitchen counters that allow wheelchairs to roll under them, a bathroom with a roll-in shower, family and dining areas and a bedroom large enough for wheelchairs and attendants to move about. The campers sleep on hospital-style beds with Hoyer lifts nearby if they are needed. Additional sleeping space for family members is also provided on a pull-out bed in the living room and on cots on the screened porch.

The Friends of Harrington Beach State Park [exit DNR] and the DNR have partnered to provide this cabin. The cabin has been built through generous donations and gifts of building funds, building plans and furniture and equipment from a wide variety of organizations and businesses.

Kayak campsite

The kayak site is a non-electric site for up to six visitors. The campsite has a campfire ring and a picnic table. The site is tent-only and is intended for visitors that are kayaking along Lake Michigan. This is a kayak site and not for powerboats. Kayaks need to be moved from the beach when not in use. A post painted blue marks the location of the stairs to the campsite from the shore. The kayak site coordinates are 43° 29' 24.0" N, 87° 47' 36.3" W

Parking is available north of Harrington Beach at Kohler-Andrae State Park. Please inform the park staff that you are kayaking to Harrington Beach and when you will return. A park admission sticker is required. Parking is available south of the park at the marina in Port Washington. The marina daily fee is $2.50 per day.

Firewood

Firewood is for sale at the park office and from the campground host at site #100 during the summer.

Don't move firewood! Due to the potential of carrying harmful tree pests and diseases, Wisconsin has restrictions for moving firewood. 

Firewood facts, rules and advice