At site b4 in Minnesota's Cascade River State Park 10/23/05-10/24/05. Just outside of Grand Marais this park is not only pretty for a visit, but makes a good homebase for exploring Minnesota's North Shore.
"From the Latin 'cascare', to fall, the word came into use for a small waterfall."
- from gardenvisit.com
the people who routinely commit the hand dryer vandalism of "push butt, rub hands under arm" seem to have camped at minnesota's cascade river state park.
at least that's what i think this cairn means, just off artist's point in grand marais, mn.
according to superiortrails.com, the beaver house is the place to get fishing lures.
looking up at judge cr magney state park, home of the devil's kettle.
that's the wanderwagen tailgate on the right. the syncro on the left is one sharp westy. this is at the grand portage national monument stockade parking lot, which was pretty cool in its own interpretive, informative way.
that's the highest waterfall in minnesota aptly named...wait for it..."the high falls". the falls are a nice punctuation to a pleasant walk through grand portage state park.
from eagle mountain, anyway. this pic is from the summit of lutsen's eagle mountain looking over the lake. the lake.
he had me off the line and kept it punched on lutsen mountain's alpine slide. the chairlift ride was just as cool as the slide down.
parked on the road to wild country maple syrup sugar bush. taking the caribou trail out of lutsen, mn was the most colorful part of the trip. the road is mostly packed dirt and gravel, which kept the traffic down. some really nice superior national forest campsites on this loop.
kurt loveloveloved temperance river state park, and simply beamed the entire time we explored there.
the colors aren't dramatic, but the terrain is. for a color update, see the mn dnr's fall color report for northeastern minnesota
a break in the treecover gave us this shot while taking the well-made trail up to shovel point at tettegouche state park.
amazing how a little walk can change one's perspective. same landmark after a bit of of a stroll.
grey on grey under grey. in the parking lot of the two harbors lighthouse. no, that's not the lighthouse on the right.
