Adventures including visit(s) to National Park Site(s)
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…
Last Stop in the Southern Appalachians Camping between the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and and the Alleghany Mountains to the west. We had a very nice visit with an “old” friend of Mark’s on the eastern side the Blue Ridge one day, and on another… A re-visit to Read more…
Camping in Monroe, Virginia …about a mile from the Blue Ridge Parkway, MP 61.4 entrance, and not so high in the mountains as at Fancy Gap, at only 1,031′. First day here it RAINED all day and ended with nearby tornado warnings. That was a hang out/laundry day. Then we Read more…
Camping in Fancy Gap, Virginia Less than a mile from the Blue Ridge, MP 199.4 entrance. We’re definitely in the mountains. At 2,914′, it got Cold at night, below freezing the first night! And Fancy Gap KOA, besides providing us with Eclipse sunglasses, provided a Weather Rock. It was quite Read more…
Camping near Asheville, North Carolina First of 3 stops moving north, adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway, through western North Carolina and Virginia. Revisits to 3 National Park sites (to see new-to-us sites): Day trip visit to 1 new National Park Site: No, we did not make it to the Read more…