Category: Camping
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Porkies to Keewenaw
28 July 2022 – Thursday posted 13 March 2023 Exploring the east end of the Porkies and heading into the Keewenaw Peninsula 0946 47,899 Leave Big Bear Campground 1003 47,907 61° Lake of the Clouds In less than twenty minutes, we climbed 800 feet to enjoy this popular view in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness…
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East and UP
27 July 2022Posted 10 March 2023 We travel east into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (UP) to begin exploring the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness. We find silly hats and lots of waterfalls. 0843 47,815 64° Dump tanks and fill water. Leave Saxon Harbor and head east into Michigan. 0845 47,826 We checked out Little Girls Point Park &…
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NE Wisconsin Waterfalls
26 July 2022 TuesdayPublished 08 March 2023 A full day of waterfall hikes. 0810 47,745 Leave Ashland, WI 63° 0900 47,777 Copper Falls State Park The park is named after Copper Mining that took place here between 1840 and 1902. We set out on the Doughboy’s Trail. It came highly recommended for waterfalls and canyons.…
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Ore and Murals in Ashland
25 July 2022Posted 03 March 2023 We move east from Thompson’s Bay to Ashland. At 0700 the temp was only 56°, the coldest overnight, thus far, in July. By 0938 we were packed up and on the road. Half an hour later we had found a spot in Ashland. 1008 47,730 69° Kreher Park, site…
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Apostle Islands
Today we head to Bayfield to get out on a boat and explore a little of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. 24 July 2022 1000 47,682 67° Left Thompson’s Bay in Washburn Posted 02 March 2023 1008 Stopped on the way and checked out all thirteen sites at Big Rock Campground. Finding open campsites in the…
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Bayfield Peninsula
22 July 2022 Posted 18 February 2023 Back on the Lake Superior Circle Route, we headed east from Omicron Falls State Park. Road noise, rain, and trains kept us from getting much rest. Shortly after getting underway, the blades of a windmill had us pulling over in South Range, Wisconsin. The 1904 Davidson Windmill wasn’t…
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