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We didn’t have a reservation for the Wakeley Lake Semi-Primitive Nonmotorized Area, so we arrived hoping there was still a site available in its rustic, walk-in campground.
We grabbed a light load, hi… read more
A $4 Toll for a Summer of Adventure
Have you been to Isle Royale National Park? How about Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park? We’re always amazed to meet people who are lifelong Michiganders but have been to neither.
Time to explore what lies on the other side of the Mackinac Bridge.
We have what will inspire you to pay that $4 toll. There’s a feature on one of the most significant changes on Isle Royale National Park in years; animal-resistant food storage lockers at backcountry campgrounds. There are no bears on the Island but there are some pesky foxes and red squirrels.
Back on the mainland Jim DuFresne has contributed a piece on beautiful Lake of the Clouds in the Porcupine Mountains that also happens to be one of the toughest places to catch a bass. Finally, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Lyme Timber Company shook hands on a historical conservation easement that will protect 73,000 acres of the rugged Michigamme Highlands, that includes Mount Arvon, the highest point in Michigan.
We have the stories, the guidebooks and maps in our e-shop and the downloadable digital maps to those great areas on the other side of the bridge.
No excuse not to cross it.
