Please read the website before calling.
Sleeping Bear Retreat is located on over 60 beautifully wooded acres in scenic French Lick, Indiana.
Whether you are looking for a quiet weekend getaway, a low cost family vacation, or a group stay, we are the place for you. We are pet friendly, as long as the pet is friendly, and on a leash.
To make a reservation, click "Book Now" below, by phone, or Email:
Phone: (812)865-6898
Email: sleepingbear812@gmail.com
CALL TO BOOK: To rent the whole property at a 25% discount, 10% military discount, or for special pricing for schools, scouts, church, or other groups.
(Side note: PsychoPath, Paintball Planet, and Sleeping Bear Retreat, are all operated as separate businesses, and DO have separate addresses!)
Amenities
Tipis
- 4 Cots in Each Tipi
- Picnic Table
- Firewood Available for a Small Fee
- Fire Grate for cooking over the fire pits
- Private Modern Toilets & Hot showers in the bath house nearby.
Covered Wagon
- 4 Cots
- Electricity
- Air Conditioning & Heat
- Spacious & Cozy
- Picnic Table
- Private Modern Toilets & Hot showers in the bath house nearby.
Sunset Lodge
- 4 Cots
- Partial enclosed porch seating area
- Overlook of the forest
- Picnic Table
- Private Modern Toilets & Hot showers in the bath house nearby.
The Fish "Modern Tepee"
- One QUEEN bed
- 2 Cots
- Electricity
- Blower fan included (No heat or A/C)
- Luxurious porch seating area overlooking pond
- Overlook of the forest and pond
- Spacious and cozy
- Picnic Table on deck
- Private Modern Toilets & Hot showers in the bath house nearby.
Things To Bring Camping
- First and foremost, you must be prepared for the weather, and the outdoors. Watch your weather app and prepare for it. If it's going to rain, prepare to get wet. If its going to be hot or cold, dress and prepare for it. You are camping, it is outside, there may even be bugs flying around. Again, you're camping.
- Sleeping bag, appropriate for weather conditions as there is no heat or a/c in the tepees, but heat and a/c in the covered wagon. There are 4 cots in each tepee and wagon, as well as electric in two of the tepees, if you want to bring an air mattress.
- Bug spray with high deet if you're going into the woods. The ticks and chiggers are hungry, and you are outside, where bugs do exist.
- Food and drink in a cooler - ice is available in the gift shop.
- Fire apparatus (lighter or matches)
- Basically anything that makes you comfortable. Camping is supposed to be a happy time, enjoy it!
Things To Do At Sleeping Bear
- Hiking or Hardcore Biking Trails
- Catch and Release Fishing
- Volleyball
- Giant Chess Game
- Cornhole
- Yardzee
- Fossil Digging
- Wild Life Photography
- Bird Watching
- Relaxing Around a Fire While Star Gazing
- 9 Hole Disk Golf Course
- Paintball, Regular, Low Impact, Kids gel blasters.
- PsychoPath Haunted Attraction in October
Prices
18 ft. TEPEE $55.00 Per Night, Sunday Through Thursday.
$65 Per Night Friday & Saturday Nights, And Major Holidays.
$330 Per Week (Call to reserve a week)
Months of March & November Tepees will be $55 every night, weekends included.
COVERED WAGON $75.00 Per Night Sunday Through Thursday.
$85 Per Night Friday & Saturday Nights, And Major Holidays.
$450 Per Week (Call to reserve a week)
The Fish "Modern Tepee" COVERED WAGON $75.00 Per Night Sunday Through Thursday.
$85 Per Night Friday & Saturday Nights, And Major Holidays.
$450 Per Week (Call to reserve a week)
SUNSET LODGE $55.00 Per Night, Sunday Through Thursday.
$65 Per Night Friday & Saturday Nights, And Major Holidays.
$330 Per Week (Call to reserve a week)
Months of March & November Tepees will be $55 every night, weekends included.
CAMPER SITE $35.00 Per Night / $210.00 Per Week. (Call to reserve a week) (30-amp, 110 outlet and water hookup) no sewer dump. This is not an RV site; this is only for campers less than 25ft long.
TENT CAMP with elec. And water $25.00 Per Night.
$150.00 Per Week. (Call For Availability)
PRIMITIVE TENT CAMP (no elec. or water) $20.00 Per Night.
$120.00 Per Week. (Call to reserve a week)
RENT ALL PROPERTY $400 Per Night / $2400.00 Per Week. (Call to reserve) 50 people max.
A $100.00 non-refundable deposit is required for the "Rent All Property." and is a total of a 25% discount
We offer a 10% Military discount, as well as 10% for schools, churches, scouts, and other such groups. CALL 812-865-6898 to book for these discounted rates.
CALL TO BOOK IF:
You are staying a week.
Qualify for a discount.
Have Gift Certificates/ Won a stay.
Renting whole property.
Need Electric for tent camping.
- All prices except for (rent all property) are for up to 4 people max per site, there will be a $5.00 charge per person per night over the max amount of people.
- All prices "do not" include sales tax.
- Please note, we are not an RV camp site.
- Cancellation policy - Before 7 Days - Full refund. Before 3 days - 50% Refund. 2 days - No refund.
- Holiday Weekends - There is a two night minimum on holiday weekends, payment is due in full with your reservation, with a 7 day cancellation policy.
To make a reservation, click "Book Now" below, by phone" or Email:
Phone: (812)865-6898
Email: sleepingbear812@gmail.com
ADDRESS: 2773 S. Co. Rd. 1000 W.
French Lick, IN 47432
(Side note: PsychoPath, Paintball Planet, and Sleeping Bear Retreat, are all operated as separate businesses, and DO have separate addresses!)
Note: Not all trails are marked, due to being to dangerous.
Trail map of the property
Coming October 2025