August 18, 2013 Marenisco, Michigan

Today had us leaving the northermost point of Michigan and heading south to Lake Gogebic State Park.  This very small state park struck us as being more like a county park than a state park.  We found a nice shady spot overlooking beautiful Lake Gogebic.

The first day we discovered a leak in the tire stems of the tires on our tow dolly.  Lake Gogebic is in a pretty isolated part of Michigan, so we had to spend the day driving 30 miles into Bessemer to get the stems repaired at a small combination Firestone tire and service station.  We drove around the town while the work was being done and then drove back to the park.  Just goes to show you this lifestyle is not all a walk in the park!

The next two days we drove to Porcupine State Park to do some hiking.  We fell in love with this park about 45 minutes from our campground and actually drove there twice to do some hiking.  They also introduced us to a new form of geocaching called “letterboxing” and we enjoyed doing that both days.  We were both very impressed with this well kept, user friendly park that had wonderful steps around falls and different scenic areas, with numerous benches to rest while hiking.   The waterfalls were very nice, but we had definitely been spoiled by the splendor of Tahquamenon Falls.

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Lake of the Clouds

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View from Lake of the Clouds

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Another new trail we hiked on!

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Never saw a bear but we had a whistle and were on guard

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one of 3 falls

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Very nice suspension bridge that took us over to a little peninsula, almost like an island

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View from the top of the tower

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Steps, steps and more steps, doesn’t even include all the steps we climbed to get to the tower.

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Typical walkways found in the park…they really did a wonderful job of buidling walkways and stairways.

 

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