As soon as I saw Copper Harbor, Michigan, on a map, I wanted to go there. I love to follow a road to its furthest point and imagine living there. What must it be like to, literally, live at the end of the road? Copper Harbor is as far north as you can go in …
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Canyon Falls, the Grand Canyon of Michigan
Canyon Falls is the Grand Canyon of Michigan. If you have been reading the blog for a while, you knew I would get to it eventually. There is no way I would spend almost a month in a state without telling you about the Grand Canyon of that state. Unfortunately, our travel time in Michigan …
Muskallonge Lake State Park in Michigan’s UP
Muskallonge Lake State Park was our next camping destination after staying at Soo Locks Campground. Located on the east side of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, it seemed like a good jumping off point for seeing Pictured Rocks. If we had done a little more research, we might have stayed on the west side of Pictured …
Tahquamenon Falls State Park
Tahquamenon Falls State Park in the Upper Peninsula is one of the most beautiful state parks in Michigan. Unlike most of the other state parks, Tahquamenon Falls is not located on the shore of a Great Lake. This makes it more like the state parks we have in Ohio. We visited the park on our …
St Ignace Historic Walking Tour
While we were visiting all the Mackinac stuff, we stayed at Straits State Park in St Ignace, Michigan. Because of the proximity of the park to the town, we spent two days doing the Historic Walking Tour of St Ignace. The town of St Ignace only has 2,500 year-round residents, but the population swells in …
Mackinac Island, Michigan
Mackinac Island is one of those places that I’ve always heard a lot about but never visited until this trip. Whenever people talk about it, they wax poetic about its beauty, the lack of cars, the horse-drawn carriages, the Grand Hotel. After one day on the island, I can say that it is all that …
Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse in Mackinaw City
Buying a membership into the Mackinac Association of Friends gave us admission into the six historic Mackinac parks. Colonial Michilimackinac was the first we visited. While we were at Colonial Michilimackinac, we realized that Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park was closed. It would not reopen until 2023. This was disappointing because we were planning on …
Big Sable Point Lighthouse and Ludington, Michigan
The day after visiting Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, we headed south to Big Sable Point Lighthouse in Ludington, Michigan. It was supposed to rain in the afternoon, so Tom, Sandy, and I headed out first thing in the morning to take the hike the Big Sable Point Lighthouse. The only way to get to …
World’s Largest Weathervane in Montague, Michigan
During our travels in Michigan, Tom and I stopped to see the “World’s Largest Weathervane.” We often joke that if you put enough qualifiers in front, everything is the largest, oldest, tallest something. We take those designations with a grain of salt. But “The World’s Largest Weathervane was on our way to our next campground, …
Ottawa Beach, Walking from Holland State Park
During our Michigan trip, Tom and I were never far from one of the great lakes. When we stayed at Holland State Park, we could walk to Ottawa Beach, on Lake Michigan. The town butts up against Holland but is in a another socio-economic category. The houses, as most houses on lakefronts these days, are …