Porcupine Mountains State Park, UP, Michigan & south UP Waterfall

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Wow, those are excellent pics!! What a beautiful place!

Thanks for sharing!
 
My GF grew up in the UP and wants me to take her to the Porkies this summer; it won't take much convincing :) Thanks for those awesome pics, guys. :thumbup:

I've heard stories of shipwrecks full of lumber being salvaged; Lake Superior is cold enough that the wood didn't rot. IIRC the salvaged wood was very valuable to high-end instrument and furniture makers.
 
Both my parents grew up in the UP, and my grandparents and aunts and uncles and some of my cousins all still live up there. I mainly hang around the Manistique area, but we also have some property north west of Marquette. I've never made it over to the Porkys but I really want to, same situation with Isle Royale. I'm going to try to do at least one of those this summer.
 
mdauben said:
That would be Lake Superior. People who have never seen them in person are often supprised at just how huge and sea-like the Great Lakes can be. Lake Superior itself is larger than the state of South Carolia, and waves of 20-30 feet are not uncommon during winter storms. Lake Supperior is also the site of the title event of the famous Gordon Lightfoot song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" about a 700+ foot freighter that went down during a November storm. ;)
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Thanks -- that's what I was wondering about. Guess I could have looked it up on Google....

Someday it would be great to see some of that country.

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is a good song I remember from my youth, lo these many moons ago.
 
Nice pic's ,have wanted to take a ride up there for years,just haven't made it there yet.
Michigan has a helmet law for motorcycle's---I'll just have to get one and go!!
 
I had NO IDEA it was so beautiful in the UP. It seems that it is an overlooked resource. Need to make plans to go when my boys (and me!) are a bit more seasoned with outdoors living.
 
Rockywolf said:
I had NO IDEA it was so beautiful in the UP. It seems that it is an overlooked resource. Need to make plans to go when my boys (and me!) are a bit more seasoned with outdoors living.
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Nah, it's not that great, you might as well just stay home. Not worth visiting at all. :p


I just hope it will remain this nice, I like the fact that alot of people don't go up there.
 
Google Earth the entire western UP. It's pretty cool!

And incase anyone missed my edit on the original post, here is some good stuff to pick up

Before you go: Must have book before you go in the interior:
ISBN 0-9711654-4-0 Porcupine Mountains Companion - Inside Michigan's Largest State Park by Michael Rafferty and Robert Spraque, 4th Edition
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A great book of short Bear Tales from his years as a Park Ranger. I can't stress how much a pleasure it is to read this book of bear stories thru this man's many years as a PM SP Ranger!
ISBN 978-0-9623664-6-4 True Bear Tales - By Ranger David E. Young, Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park -4th Edition


http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dn...p_184899_7.pdf
Trail map to this 60,000 acre Midwest Gem.
 
Awesome pics! The biggest thing I miss about living in the northeast is time in the wild during the fall. It was my favorite season to be out.
 
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