Grand Portage NM & Isle Royale NP
Grand Portage Casino We make “camp” for this leg of our trip in the back corner of the parking lot at the Grand Portage Casino. How did we end up in a parking lot?...
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Cook County Minnesota
Grand Marais Municipal Campground We manage to pick up a three night cancellation at the Grand Marais Municipal Campground for this leg of our trip. We have nothing booked from this point forward, so...
Lake County Minnesota
Split Rock Lighthouse State Park We’ve been trying to figure out a way to get to Split Rock Lighthouse State Park since the wonderful lighthouse keepers at Big Sable Lighthouse in Ludington, MI recommended...
St. Croix National Scenic Riverway
The St. Croix National Scenic Riverway is over 200 miles of clean water that flows through the forests of both Wisconsin and Minnesota. It consists of the St. Croix and Namekagon rivers and offers...
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is made up 21 islands plus a stretch of shoreline at the northern tip of Wisconsin. There’s very few campgrounds in this area that take reservations and we weren’t...
Keweenaw Peninsula South
The Ontonagon Country Driving to the southern part of the Keweenaw Peninsula we stop at the Ontonagon Marina to stretch our legs and as we drive in we see a sign for a Lighthouse...
Keweenaw Peninsula North
The Keweenaw Peninsula is home to the Keweenaw National Historic Park. Established in 1992, the park celebrates the history of the Keweenaw Peninsula through it’s twenty-one heritage sites located throughout the peninsula. We begin...
Marquette to Manistique – Waterfalls, Lighthouses, & Springs
While staying in Munising we opted to explore the surrounding towns and areas on the days the weather blew in the large mass of smoke and fog/mist. The temperatures were 15 – 20 degrees...
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
We explore Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in two phases. The first from the north/east side via Muskallonge State Park and the second from the south/west via the city of Munising. Muskallonge State Park The...
Exploring the Tahquamenon Falls Area – Waterfalls, Lighthouses, and Shipwrecks
For our first stop in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, we set up basecamp in the Newberry State Forest just a few miles east of Tahquamenon State Park. It doesn’t have the wonderful lake...