Copper and Gold

Copper, gold, orange and red! The trees have started showing their glory! The next week we spent exploring the Keweenaw Peninsula. It is an area filled with history, great views, and trees! And copper! Copper has been mined here by native and some say even pre-historic peoples. It is truly a beautiful and interesting area. We even purchased a few pieces of the raw mined copper - pieces of art in their own natural state.

We stayed a few days in Houghton at the municipal City RV Park. It was right on the canal with free wifi, cable, full hookups and a really good price. It has a good central location to explore the peninsula. There is a pretty circle drive you can take around the whole peninsula as well many interesting stopping points. This area has many old copper mines and lighthouses.

We drove all the way up to Copper Harbor which is at the very northern tip. We decided to come back and stayed three days up there as well. Very small town but it hosts a lot of hiking and biking trails and one of the best restaurants (Harbor Haus) of the whole trip. It was quite the surprise- it didn’t look much from the outside. Very nice at sunset with large windows that look over Lake Superior and all the wait staff runs out and performs a little dance when the sunset cruise returns. Very fun!

We stayed at the Fanny Hooe RV Park on beautiful Lake Fanny Hooe – they do have some full hookups but there is also a state park nearby as well. The state park also has a restored fort worth visiting. Jack and I were walking around the grounds and saw this very large black and white bird with a red head - yup it was the famed Woody wood pecker. He is much bigger in real life - I tried to get his autograph and a good picture but they all turned out too blurry.

This time of year the crowds are gone and it was beautiful and relaxing. Did I say I really enjoyed this area? Oh – and I also got one great massage while I was there at the Spirit of the North.