Day 41 - Sunday, August 4 - Brimley to Grand Marias

 Today we traveled 98 miles from Bay Mills Casino in Brimley to Woodland Park in Grand Marias.

Parked at Woodland Park.

The sites are reasonably sized but they sure pack a lot of people into this city park.

As soon as we got set up Kathy walked over to sit and look at Lake Superior.

We have no idea what these structures, flying a US flag, represented.

We didn't walk out to the shore. It was a long walk through loose sand. Lots of  people were at the beach. There were kids in the water but we didn't see any adults in the water.

A guy down a couple of campsites was roasting sweet corn over a campfire. 

I made the reservation for here several weeks ago. I could only get a site for one night. It is out of the way for a one night stay but I wanted to check it out to see if we might want to try for a longer stay next summer. There are no sewer connections at the sites. There are 50/30/20 amp electrical receptacles at most sites. Water is available, if you have 50-75' of hose and a wye splitter. In our area there is one hose connection for 6 campsites. One of the comments I read about the place said to take a lot of hose. I have 75' of hose but rather than get it out I filled our fresh water tank about 3/4 full before leaving Bay Mills this morning. We have enough water to take regular length showers and to get us through until we leave in the morning. I dumped our tanks before leaving Bay Mills so we won't even have to bother with stopping at the dump station. Its an okay place but I'd rather spend time in time at Soo Locks campground in Sault Ste Marie.

This place does remind me of Grady, the fictional town in the movie Doc Hollywood. We sit here with windows open and hear kids going by on scooters and bikes, having a great time. 

Some UP trivia. The total area of the UP is 36,139 square miles. Of that 16,378 sq mi is land and the remaining 19,761 sq mi is water. The 2020 population was 301,609. 66,013 of those people live in the Marquette micropolitan statistical area, another 36,783 in the Sault Ste Marie area and 36,903 in the Escanaba area.

For reference, the total land area of Missouri is 69,715 sq mi; which includes 68,886 sq mi of land. The population is 6,160,281. Missouri has 4.2 times the land area of the UP and 20.4 times as many people.

Its 10:40PM we just came back from walking over to bluff over looking the Lake, to see if we could see the northern lights. Kathy thinks she could see them, I couldn't. It is cloudy enough that stars aren't visible above us but on the horizon it does look like there is a small back that is cloudless, but its a long was away. 

Todays high was a mostly sunny 74. The overnight low is forecast to be 60. It is 64 right now with a breeze. We had hoodies on when walking to the Lake. It didn't take me long to get cold.

God is good. I pray that He blesses you and yours. He has blessed me.