Free or low cost beach camping...?
Hello Everyone, I'm trying to create a list, which I will make available to everyone, of places where RVers can park on, or right next to, a beach for free or at a low cost. I found a great threa...
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travelnutz wrote:
loulou57,
Not going to argue with you or wiki but you might want to look at Google Maps starting at Calumet Harbor, Indiana and go north along Lake Michigan on the Michigan side for nearly 300 miles and notice it's a sugar sand golden white beach all the way until there's some rock and bolders from Leland north! One very long continous beach! You can go in on Google Maps and even see the people laying in the sun on the extremely long beach.
I don't know exactly when (M/D/Y) or time of day the satellite photos used were taken but judging from the very lately built homes and buildings I see, it has to be just in the last few years. The little 2 and 3 notes by the "wiki claims" say it's from the Ontario Parks website - Ministry of Natural Resources (Ontario). Might be a tourism claim for canada but it's not factual for the world as many other sand beaches are so much longer on freshwater shores.
Canadians are our close friends and we have many of them who come to the Lake Michigan beaches where we live every year who live on the east side of the "Blue Water Bridge" at Port Huron, MI - Sarnia, Ont. East and north (Goderich and Collingwood) Simcoe cty, etc and come all the way across our state (over 200 miles just in Michigan) to get to the Lake Michigan Lakeshore Beaches. Never heard them mention Wasaga Beach once and it's right in their backyard! I will be asking them about it and why they don't just go to Wasaga Beach as it's only miles away.
I understand what you are saying. I think where you are getting confused is that the shoreline of Michigan has many beaches that have different names. If you google longest beaches in the world, every site will agree with my initial post. Michigan boasts the largest sand dune system on a fresh water lake. These are not posts made by the
Ministry of Natural Resources. As you say yourself, your coastline is made up of many beaches. Those combined make a very long shoreline. I am quoting individually named beaches. I even googled, longest beaches in Michigan and came up with the same answer.
We are not going to agree on this , that is fine. I am going only by written facts. If you feel this is a tourist ploy check out USA Today travel tips, Readers Digest, they agree.
