We loaded the car full of camping equipment for the long weekend up the North shore of MN. Thursday we left for Duluth to stay over night at the hotel before heading out to the woods.
We usually stop at Black Bear and do a little $20 gambling and spend the night.
The next day, Friday we were off early driving to Lutsen. I wanted to stop at one location on the way up.
In Silver Bay, they have a beach that has black sand. It's super pretty when the sun shines on the orange rocks against the black sand. It's the only spot that looks like this on the North Shore.
After our quick stop at the Black Sand Beach, we were off to drive to our camping spot for the next three days.
We set up camp. Used everything we brought. The screen porch came in handy to get out of the bugs at night.
It was spring on the north shore with all the blooming flowers.
We had a pork loin grilled dinner down by Lake Superior at the park next to the Lutsen resort. The resort was having a big wedding so we opted to go to the park next door. We had it all to ourselves!
Delicous dinner by the lake.
Camp fire the first night.
We also brought tubes instead of our Kayaks. With only being up there a few days we figured biking would be enough and we would just keep it simple. We had never swam in the lakes up in the mountains before but it was nice on a hot day. Super great idea and I'll be bringing the tubes every time we camp!
We ended up going to two different lakes, Lake Claira and Twin Lakes to swim/bike/hike
Grand Marais, at Sidneys on the roof top over looking Lake Superior
We had a beer and shared a donut.
A sail boat off in the distance on the lake
Yummm....
Cheers! Off to the Brewery, Voyager in town for more beer and some cribbage.
We did a little driving on Saturday on the Gunflint trail to Twin lakes to picnic, bike, swim and hike.
The pizza at Sidneys was super good!
Sun Set in Grand Marais at the harbor.
Back to camping for the night. We had the whole place to ourselves on Saturday night without neighbors! Only on Friday we had two neighbors.
Calm waters down at the Lutsen resort on our last day, Sunday
Packing up and heading home.. Till next time!
We stopped for pie at the Rustic Inn. Excellent pies! Don't bother with Betty's pies they are junk compared to this pie place!
Going through the mountain tunnels.
Dinner at Hinkley and to do a little more gambling before driving home.
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