More Water

We found more water in several spots during our tour of northern Wisconsin.  Though, with over 14000 lakes in Wisconsin, that effort is not difficult.

We found falling waters at Pattison State Park which lies south of Superior.  Here is found Manitou Falls.  At 165 feet, it is the highest waterfall in Wisconsin.  The falls, though, can be easily hidden.

A better view:

To get a better sense of scale, Donna can be seen in the upper left standing on an observation platform here:

 

 

The park also boasts Little Manitou Falls:

 



After a week in the Duluth/Superior area, we headed east on Highway 2 to Ashland.  Here we stayed at a great city park, Kreher RV Park.  The park is downtown directly on Lake Superior at the base of the ore dock.  We've camped here a couple times before and looked forward to returning.  We were fortunate to get a lake front site as they are the first to be taken.

And here we are with the old ore dock as background:

On Sunday when we arrived, the weather was absolutely beautiful.  However, by Monday the wind picked up off the lake and the temperatures plummeted.  We stayed for a very windy week.  It must have rained everyday--on some days it rained several times.  Temperatures fell at night into the mid 30s and rose barely to 50 for most of the week.  We've had better experiences.  Of course, when we left on the following Sunday, the weather turned beautiful once again.

While we were there, the ore dock was being torn down.  It has not been used for decades.  There is an effort by the city to take over the dock at the lower concrete level to make it into a fishing pier/tourist attraction.  The upper metal portion of the dock should be down by the end of 2013.

While in Ashland, we decided to escape the cold Superior wind and travel inland to Mellen, the home of Copper Falls State Park.  The park boasts a campground though smaller sites than at Pattison.  The falls are accessible by a well defined path which begins and ends at the shelter/concession stand.

The path includes a handicapped access to view Copper Falls:

We left Ashland behind on Sunday and stopped at the Clear Lake Campground in the state forest southeast of Woodruf on Highway 47.  This is a great campground though it has no electric nor water hook-ups.  Most of the sites are large and can accommodate large RVs with slides.  Generators are allowed to be run from 10 AM until 5 PM with a free permit from the Warden.  Clear Lake is used for fishing and water sports.  Our camp site sat just off the water.

 

 

Just beyond the clump of trees by the picnic table is an open beach area which borders the lake:

 



Other than a camp host, we were the only campers in this large campground.  We stayed two nights.