Direction to OVID

[McCarter]

Rev or Dan or anyone:

Ill be there for the Ovid tournament this saturday.  I need to know how to get there from I96 and I275 area. 

Also, i dont remember if there was fee or not to get in.  Lemme know.

Thanks.

PB himself

[djkimmel]

It's a state park, so you need an annual permit or a daily pass. Daily are $6 available a short way inside the main gate. Probably only the automated machine will be running (hopefully, it was broke a couple weeks ago) at 6AM.

If it isn't working, we can get daily passes later at the campground. They'll probably put a ticket on your window sometime during the day, but it only counts if you don't go by the daily pass later that same day.

Easiest way to get to Sleepy Hollow State Park from I-96 is to stay on it until you get to North US-127.

Stay on North US-127 (to Clare) until you get North of Lansing to the Price Road exit (just before St. Johns, MI).

Turn right on Price Road. Go about 5 miles to the state park entrance off Price Road. You'll cross the bridge over the old river bed/swamp before the entrance.

They may not have the main road open to the boat ramp at 6AM since the park doesn't open until 8AM. You can turn around at the campground if they have the gate closed. If the gate is open on the main park road at the campground entrance, then just keep going around the lake until you get to the ramp.

If the gate is closed, turn around and go back out to Price Rd. Turn Right.

At the 4-way stop (Shelbyville Rd), turn right and watch for the night entrance on your right just a couple hundreds yards up the road. Take a right to the boat ramp. COPY AND PRINT THIS SO YOU DON'T FORGET!!!

[Revtro]

Thanks for that Dan.  I told the other guys who are fishing this weekend to check out this post.  See ya'll there.

[djkimmel]

I talked to the Park Office and they say we will have to use the night entrance off Shepardsville Rd to get to the boat ramp in the morning - I guess I'll try that first and hope it holds true.