Sault Ste. Marie, ON

bushplane museum
canadian carver - west along 17 a bit near pancake bay , senic drive
Algoma train tour

We stayed at the Auen-Osborn RV park on the MI side. Loved the park. We stayed on the US side and toured the locks, a retired ore ship, and loved watching the huge ships travel by.

You might like to take a drive west to Tahquamenon Falls. There's a small lighthouse-turned-museum just north of there at Paradise. (Then you can tell your neighbors you've been to Paradise.)

hone eagle wrote:
bushplane museum
canadian carver - west along 17 a bit near pancake bay , senic drive
Algoma train tour

The museum and train trip were great

The train trip will take most of the day. We took the trip last summer and stayed at the KOA also. Great campground and great hosts. We drove mainly west of the Sault when sight seeing.

There are two river side campgrounds in SSM. Both are nice. When you are coming into town, slow down long enough to drop someone at the visitor center to look at the board and see when the next expected passage is going to be. Then you can get back to the "peanut gallery" to watch it.

Other than the locks, there is also the Valley Camp museum ship, the River of History Museum, and the Tower. The tower is not much, but if you buy the all three ticket, what the hey.... The River Museum was closed on Sundays. There is also a little annex of the White Fish Point Museum on the lock grounds. If you find that interesting at all, you may choose to run the distance to the actual museum at Whitefish Point. They seem to have a big display about the Fitz. Understandable as that was the last bid loss on the lakes, but I can't go there - I lost too many friends that day and it still hurts.

I have never been on the Canadian side, but only because I have never had a reason or time.

Matt

I recommend going to one of the PPs along the western shore of Lake Superior (Pancake Bay, or Lake Superior PP). Lake Superior PP has great hiking and kayak/canoeing. The Algoma train is really nice. I've not visited the Bushplane museum but many recommend it.

I don't want this to sound TOO NEGATIVE, but north and east of Sault Ste Marie, ON there is not a lot to see except trees !

theoldwizard1 wrote:
I don't want this to sound TOO NEGATIVE, but north and east of Sault Ste Marie, ON there is not a lot to see except trees !

LOL. That’s part of the reason we are going there!! Peace and quite!!!

north of the sault there is only trees and lakes too many to even name them all ,have a look at google earth
....... nothing but nothing all the way to james bay.

home of the bush plane........ oh wait