Right side of the Mitten – Tawas City to Forty Mile Point
After the marshlands of Bay City, I was ready to get back to the breezes and blue water of Lake Huron proper, so I moved up the East coast of the mitten to Tawas Point State Park. This was another tightly packed park with scads of families, including quite a lot of tent campers. I experienced […]
Saginaw Bay – Bay City
The Inside of the Thumb – Port Crescent to Sebewaing The M-25 is the rural highway that hugs the coastline of the Thumb. I’d followed it along the Eastern side from Lakeport to Port Austin, and it was fairly consistent – long stretches of views of the rocky coastline, broken up by occasional small towns […]
Lake Huron – Exploring the Michigan Thumb
Huron County Lighthouse Park at Pointe Aux Barques I arrived at this park on the last Wednesday in June and it was nearly empty. My original plan was to stay for five nights, then move on up the Thumb. However I failed to consider that would mean finding another campground during the Independence Day holiday. […]