Fayette Historic State Park, Garden, Michigan

We found Up North Cafe open for an early breakfast in downtown Ontonagon before we headed briefly back into Wisconsin before we turned south towards Lake Michigan to camp at Fayette Historic State Park. We have finished our superior Lake Superior Circle Tour  and loved the Minnesota North Shore and Ontario side the best.  We set up camp at Fayette Historic State Park and then hiked to Snail Shell Harbour. We saw a Cabo Rico sailboat like ours docked up and ended up meeting the Michigan couple at our whitefish dinner at Sherry's Port Inn at dinner. We toured the historic town site on Big Bay De Noc. The building and many of the insides of the buildings were restored to the 1890's mining town. We toured the furnace complex and the kilns next to the quarry and dolomite cliffs. The superintendent's house was beautifully decorated. There are plans to restore the hotel to it's grandeur. The visitor center had an informative diorama of the entire town. We walked the slag beach trail to Sherry's Port Bar for cold Labec draft beers and dinner before we strolled through St. Peter's Fisherman's Cemetery on our way back to camp. We got up at 5 am and packed up camp in the dark to head towards Mackinac Island.

Another cozy site

Snail Shell Harbour marina

Trail along the bay of Lake Michigan

Laborer's cabin

Blacksmith shop

Dolomite cliffs and Canada geese riding the waves

Two huge furnaces

More lovely wildflowers

A walk through the woods to a great local bar

Cemetery filled with folks dying young

Lake Michigan levels are up so high there is very little beach