22nd Stop - Timber Ridge (Traverse City, MI)

Blog Post #29 - Written August 15, 2025

Stay: June 23-25, 2025 


We missed the famous Traverse City Cherry Festival by like 3 days, which was a bit of a bummer. But that's okay, our campground was so cool we didn't even leave. We rode around their sweet BMX bike tracks, swam and played in their little lake, played on all their playgrounds, made some crafts, swam in the pool, biked some more, swam some more, played some more, and had a grand 'ole time.

The boys enjoyed the BMX bike course. See videos below.      D started practicing on her balance bike inherited from Q. Fun side note - she's wearing a shirt that I bought for Z at a garage sale almost 8 years ago, when we were just pregnant with him.

Video: Yours truly catching some sick air! ;)

Video: Megan actually catching real air...and almost eating a tree haha

Video: Q braved one of the advanced runs. Love that kid!

Video: Z crushed the advanced run, made it look easy once he worked up the courage to try it!


I finally remembered to break out my GoPro for some in-water pics and videos! Ignore the time stamp haha, obviously off a couple years! The lake was a ton of fun :)

The campground's private lake with an inflatable slip 'n slide, trampoline, and climbing/jumping tower with slide. And yes, they dye the water a turquoise green...kinda weird, just don't think about it!

All the kids loved the lake. The boys loved being able to swim around by themselves in their life jackets. D...tolerated it. Hahaha!


Video: Jumping off the inflatable climbing tower.

Video: Z and Q jumping off the tower. I couldn't believe how quickly and easily they did it, without hesitation!



Neat Person Spotlight: On our drive into this campground, we stopped at Walmart. After we shopped, we came back out to the trailer and found a camper with Alaska plates on it next to ours.  Megan was excited to see that and then the couple that drive it came out too. They were super friendly and fun to chat with. They owned an Alaskan plane tour company and had recently sold it and started a traveling ministry.  And since Megan was so excited to see their Alaskan plates, they gave us one of their old plates and we tied it onto the tongue of our trailer :)  It's been a fun conversation starter haha.


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