Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
From Duluth, Minnesota to the Canadian border! We camped in Grand Marais, about 75% of the way up the ~150 miles of the Minnesota North Shore of Lake Superior…Lizzy’s 1st time camping in Minnesota (State #41). We visited a couple of unexpected places on the North Shore: Visited 1 new Read more…
And making stops on the Fruit Loop Trail! We camped in the Bayfield, Wisconsin, on the shores of Lake Superior, for a few days. It’s Lizzy’s 1st time camping in Wisconsin (State #40). Bayfield is known as the “Berry Capitol of Wisconsin” because of its unique microclimate and many berry farms Read more…
For now, anyway We’ve loved our 5+ week visit to Michigan…from Detroit, between Lakes Huron & Erie; west to Muskegon, on Lake Michigan; to the Straits of Mackinac, between Lakes Michigan and Huron; to the Upper Peninsula and the shores of Lake Superior; culminating with a week on Isle Royale, Read more…
And the Vagaries of Lake Superior Weather When the gales of November came early! Really! Many visitors over the weekend did not arrive or leave per their original plans! We did, but barely. We departed Copper Harbor, Keweenaw Peninsula on the Isle Royale Queen IV last Tuesday, 8:00 am, for Read more…
On the Keweenaw Peninsula… …which was a center of copper mining for well over 100 years. The Pittsburgh and Boston Mining Company began mining near Copper Harbor in 1844. From 1850 to 1881, Michigan produced more than three-quarters of the country’s copper, and in 1869, the state produced over 95%. Calumet Read more…
On the big lake they call Gitche Gumee According to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, at least 200 shipwrecks lie along Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast, a treacherous 80-Mile stretch of shoreline with no safe harbor, between Munising (where we camped) and Whitefish Point (where we visited the Shipwreck Museum). It is known as Read more…
and the Cherry Capitol of the World We camped in Empire, Michigan (6 nights), primarily to visit Sleeping Bear Dunes, and maybe take a quick trip into Traverse City on our last day. We learned, once here, that Traverse City, Michigan is known as the “Cherry Capital of the World”. Its Read more…
From Lake Erie to Lake Ontario We camped in Youngstown, NY, and over 2 days, visited sites from Buffalo (on Lake Erie) to Niagara Falls to Fort Niagara (on Lake Ontario). Visit to 1 new National Park Site: (visited 2 Heritage Areas) What else did we see in Buffalo??? We Read more…
Camping on the water… …backed up to Waterloo Harbor, off Gem Creek, on the Seneca River between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake. So our “hang out in camp” times were quite pleasant! We are conveniently 10 minutes from downtown Seneca Falls. We had a “lazy day” in camp mid-week (see Read more…
Short Stop in East Stroudsburg, PA We had a Great Day with Jane, a High School friend of Mark’s who lives locally. She met us in camp and we took a day trip north to a 3 sites along the Delaware River and had a nice lunch in Milford (and Read more…