Porcupine Mountains

It was another beautiful day in the U.P., a great day for exploring and adventure. Where to today? Cherrie had found information at the Visitor Center for Bond Falls and other area water falls. So....we were off to Bond Falls, if we saw something interesting along the way, we of course stop and check it out. Once on Highway 2, we headed towards Watersmeet, the scenery is beautiful in the U.P. and we found ourselves finding back roads to explore.

We did make it to Watersmeet and found the Ottawa National Forest Visitor Center, its located at the intersection of Highway 2 and 45.  The Center had exhibits of native animals, tools and other artifacts, which made it an interesting stop.  After spending some time at the Visitor Center, we continued up Highway 45 to explore Bond Falls, twenty minutes later we were there.

There weren't too many people there, mainly some motorcyclist touring the area. Bond Falls is probably one of the most beautiful cascading falls. Cherrie and I explored the areas around the falls and were fascinated by the areas beauty. There is a small store along the road at the falls entrance that we stopped in before heading down the road.

We headed out from the falls and found some back roads to explore, even before making it to the highway.  We found other rivers and lakes along these back roads and also primitive camping with RVer's enjoying the peace and quiet.

After we made our way back to Highway 45, we headed north towards Bruce Crossing.  After arriving at Bruce Crossing we headed west on Highway 28, toward Lake Gogebic.  I knew there was a state campground on the west side of the lake, so we took a little tour of the campground and returned to Highway 28 to head back to camp.

It was another great day in the north woods. 

In the video there are pictures of damage on trails from the bad storm we experienced and you can see how muddy Lake Superior is because of the storm.

"Happy Trails"