Michigan - best time to avoid biting flies
I've been researching the UP of Michigan and along the West side of Michigan. I know summer is a short season and August is probably really busy. How is it after Labor Day? We don't mind it being coo...
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dverstra,
There's so many good to excellent CG's in the U.P. to choose from. Straits SP Lower CG is good too. I can again post a long list of most of the CG's in the U.P. that are on the Great Lakes Shoreline alone as I've posted it several times already. There's many times as many inland CG'saway from the shoreline in the U.P. Below are some of our U.P. CG favorites.
We just got back home to our West Michigan Lakeshore home last night from Burt Lake SP CG with our boat behind for a little over a week (a little south of the Big Mac Bridge) had a great time as usual. We'll be going back to the U.P. about the 3rd week of Sept for 2-3 weeks for leaf peeping etc. Have done it every year since we married 52 years ago and not goung to stop now. We have to baby sit 2 of our grandkids first as school will be started and their parents are going to their time share in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for a week and then we'll be heading north again. Always stay several days or a week at Tahquamenon Falls SP River Bend CG, go to Muskallonge SP and Grand Marais, H-58 to Pictured Rocks area and Munising etc, Fort Wilkins SP (Copper Harbor), the Porkies (Union Bay), sometimes on to Ironwood area, and then back to Indian Lake SP and/or Fayette SP and work our way back home. Depending on what and where the color is best as we tend to follow the peak color as it occurs. Long retired, no schedule and no reservations and we are very flexible and truely totally self contained. Lots of summer trips also and a few times to Alaska, lots to Canada, and the western states or the east coast.
After the "U.P." leaf peeping, we go back home for about a week to catch things up there. Pack up fresh supplies etc and head back up to the Mackinac Straits area and work our way back down south to home over a week to three weeks following the leaves etc. Again, no schedule!
At least that's the way we do it when we take the 11'4" Lance Camper. If we take our Carrilite 5th wheel etc, we may just may stay up north for a month or so. Depends on what's going on at home and if we need to be there occasionally for something. Heck, it's only 275 miles from home up to the Straits (Mackinaw City) and another 360 miles from the Straits to Copper Harbor and another 180 miles from Copper Harbor to Ironwood thru the Porkies. That's just us as we love to travel and how we get so many miles on our trucks and they're only used for RV'ing.
Then after the leaf etc trips, we get everything ready for the holidays and our annual Florida trip after New Years for 2 to 2-1/2 months. April and May are our stay at home time and get ready for another busy summer etc.
Dang'ed if we're going to just sit home and wait to die like some do! We're only 71-1/2 and got another 50 years+ of RVing to do!
There's so many good to excellent CG's in the U.P. to choose from. Straits SP Lower CG is good too. I can again post a long list of most of the CG's in the U.P. that are on the Great Lakes Shoreline alone as I've posted it several times already. There's many times as many inland CG'saway from the shoreline in the U.P. Below are some of our U.P. CG favorites.
We just got back home to our West Michigan Lakeshore home last night from Burt Lake SP CG with our boat behind for a little over a week (a little south of the Big Mac Bridge) had a great time as usual. We'll be going back to the U.P. about the 3rd week of Sept for 2-3 weeks for leaf peeping etc. Have done it every year since we married 52 years ago and not goung to stop now. We have to baby sit 2 of our grandkids first as school will be started and their parents are going to their time share in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico for a week and then we'll be heading north again. Always stay several days or a week at Tahquamenon Falls SP River Bend CG, go to Muskallonge SP and Grand Marais, H-58 to Pictured Rocks area and Munising etc, Fort Wilkins SP (Copper Harbor), the Porkies (Union Bay), sometimes on to Ironwood area, and then back to Indian Lake SP and/or Fayette SP and work our way back home. Depending on what and where the color is best as we tend to follow the peak color as it occurs. Long retired, no schedule and no reservations and we are very flexible and truely totally self contained. Lots of summer trips also and a few times to Alaska, lots to Canada, and the western states or the east coast.
After the "U.P." leaf peeping, we go back home for about a week to catch things up there. Pack up fresh supplies etc and head back up to the Mackinac Straits area and work our way back down south to home over a week to three weeks following the leaves etc. Again, no schedule!
At least that's the way we do it when we take the 11'4" Lance Camper. If we take our Carrilite 5th wheel etc, we may just may stay up north for a month or so. Depends on what's going on at home and if we need to be there occasionally for something. Heck, it's only 275 miles from home up to the Straits (Mackinaw City) and another 360 miles from the Straits to Copper Harbor and another 180 miles from Copper Harbor to Ironwood thru the Porkies. That's just us as we love to travel and how we get so many miles on our trucks and they're only used for RV'ing.
Then after the leaf etc trips, we get everything ready for the holidays and our annual Florida trip after New Years for 2 to 2-1/2 months. April and May are our stay at home time and get ready for another busy summer etc.
Dang'ed if we're going to just sit home and wait to die like some do! We're only 71-1/2 and got another 50 years+ of RVing to do!
