Lake Superior



Lake Superior


We drove to Lake Superior in Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin. We have gone to 4 of the 5 great lakes. It was a nice day.

 The lake is beautiful we pulled into the Gleensheen Mansion. There were people walking around with there tickets to go inside the mansion, 24 bucks. A bit much for a tour through a mansion. I just walked with them and got a few picture of the outside of the mansion.

Gleensheen Mansion

It was right on Lake Superior, Duluth side, It was real rustic. Built in 1905 completed in 1908. If built today would cost 30 million. There were two murders in the mansion. One was the owners youngest daughter. Murdered with a satin pillow put over her face. The other was her nurse maid. She was killed with a candle stick on the staircase the same day in 1977.

We went to the east lake walk. It was right on lake Superior and it was beautiful. The walk went along the banks of Lake Superior. We then went across the large bridge called the John A Blatnik, into Wisconsin.



bridge

  We went by the Fairlawn Mansion and museum. It was closed so we couldn’t tour it either. I found it is haunted by a ghost . They think the ghost is a servant girl.

Farlawn mansion

 We have seen quite a few deer in the fields and parks, no horns but don‘t think they have horns this time of the year. A mother and her fawn coming out of a parking lot right in front of us and got chased by a mother goose.

 We saw a wild turkey in a field and a porcupine walked across the road in front of us. The road we traveled around lake superior was very pretty. There were birch trees mixed with pine trees.

 We could see the lake at times a lot of private homes along the road and we would pull over whenever we could on pull outs to see the lake. We found a lot the businesses were not open until some time in May. It is winter for this end of the country. We stopped at Cornucopia harbor where boats go out fishing. Went into a antique store but didn’t see anything I needed. There was another store I would have gone into but it was closed.

 We went to the Madeline Island Ferry. It’s where you can go over to the Madeline Island but the things are closed for the winter there to. It will take people over to the island as people live there. We saw the lake and we could see the islands where people were living. We tried to see the Apostle Islands but must not have been in the right spot.

At the Ferry landing

 The shore line around Madeline Island looked beautiful like an ocean. Sandy beaches ,beautiful blue water and day use areas for picnics. We saw a boat out fishing too.


sandy beaches


Wisconsin and Minnesota have so many lakes and bodies of water. If you tried to stop at all of them you would never get where you are going. We made a big loop and a long day it was after nine when we got back. Beautiful trip, I hope I never forget all the beautiful things we have seen. I look at some of the pictures and they are not the same as looking through your eyes. Some of the trees still have some color from fall. This has been a trip to remember for sure.

Beautiful country


More to come .

Ginny