Category: 2024 Voyageurs Trip
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2024 Voyageurs Trip Recap
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07/19/2024 – 08/03/2024 # Date Campsite City State Type 1 07/19/2024 Wild Vines Campground Taylor Falls MN Harvest Hosts 2 07/20/2024 Hoodoo Valley Farm Tower MN Boondockers Welcome 3 07/21/2024 – 07/23/2024 Arrowhead Lodge & Resort Ray MN RV Park 4 07/24/2024 The Pines of Kabetogama Kabetogama MN Campground 5 07/25/2024 – 07/27/2024 Lake Bemidji…
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Duluth and North Ridge Winery
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Aquariums are always fun places to visit, so the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth was our first stop on the way to our Harvest Host stay for the night at North Ridge Winery. The highlights were watching baby alligators getting trained to come to a personal feeding marker, seeing two volunteer divers go into a…
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Exploring GooseBerry Falls
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Gooseberry Falls has very popular trails to their creatively named Lower, Middle and Upper Falls. We explored these from a path that starts in the campsite, which was nice. In some parks, the trails are not connected and driving to them is required. The Gooseberry River is very shallow and wide as it meets Lake…
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Gooseberry Falls State Park
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Checkout time is rather late in these North Shore State Parks at 4:00pm. It really encourages one to stay and enjoy the park further before moving on. As we had electricity at the Shipwreck Creek Campground at Split Rock Lighthouse, and not at our new spot in Gooseberry Falls, we spent the day staying put…
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Split Rock Lighthouse State Park
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A hike before breakfast is a great way to start the day. Tony saw that rain was expected and wanted to get one in before that happened. We hiked from our campsite to the bridge across Cascade River then up to the Superior Hiking Trail which is a 310+ mile long trail along the North…
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Cascade River State Park
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At last, we are seeing some of the trip list for the North Shore shared by Deb and Steve when they traveled up here with Cindy and Paul. We toured the lighthouse at Two Harbors and we stopped for pie (five-layer chocolate and blueberry) at Betty’s Pies. The lighthouse is also a bed and breakfast,…
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Savanna Portage State Park
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We spent a very rainy afternoon and night in Savanna Portage State Park. Our campsite was really nice and set in the trees – did I get a picture? No…. We parked at the boat launch and dock to get better Dishy reception—did I get a picture? No…. I hiked the Bog Trail to the…
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Paul Bunyan’s Birthplace
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First stop on the tourist route is Paul Bunyon Park where the second-most photographed statues in the US reside. Bemidji’s other claim to fame is to be the first city on the Mississippi. The visitor center has a collection of big items in honor of Paul Bunyon, and it reminded me of Dad’s “big” present…
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Bemidji Bog has Pitcher Plants!
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Please humor me as I post some more plant photos. One just has to appreciate the plants that grow in wet, nutrient-deficient bogs, and I saw pitcher plants putting up blooms in the wild today! We raised them in the botany class, but they rarely survived the lack of care they got over the summer.…
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Bemidji State Park
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This was a travel day and laundry day. We did take a hike after arriving to Bemidji State Park, and I found a very scaly mushroom. We also saw a “blonde” cottontail that Lauren correctly diagnosed as being leucistic. Its eyes were dark, so it is not an albino, but the fur color was very…