Category: Upper Midwest
One night in Wawa, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Wawa as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. From our final hike on Nokomis Trail in Lake Superior Provincial Park, it was only about a 20-minute drive to the town of Wawa. We planned to stop briefly there to restock groceries, but then learned about a a giant goose and a…
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Two nights in Lake Superior Provincial Park, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Lake Superior PP as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. From Chutes, we drove 4.5 hours (our longest stretch of the Ontario portion of the trip) to Lake Superior Provincial Park, stopping for a grocery restock in Sault Ste. Marie, and then stopping spontaneously once more for the BEST treat: a…
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One night in Chutes Provincial Park, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Chutes as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. From Killarney, it was an easy (if boring because we’d already done half of it) two-hour drive to Chutes Provincial Park, a small park on the edge of a small town, Massey. Chutes is named for a logging chute that diverted logs around…
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Two nights in Killarney, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Killarney as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. From Manitoulin Island, it was a three-hour drive to Killarney, and we’d have to repeat a lot of it in two days when we turned west toward Lake Superior. There was a minute when I wondered if it had been a mistake to…
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Two nights on Manitoulin Island, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Manitoulin as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. Manitoulin Island is the world’s largest freshwater island, and it’s home to Treasure Island, the world’s largest island in a lake on an island in a lake. (Treasure Island is also called Mindemoya Island, and mindemoya means “old lady’s bottom.”) Manitoulin is surrounded…
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Two nights in Tobermory, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Tobermory as part of Big Trip #5 in September 2026. Tobermory is the tiny town on the northern tip of Bruce Peninsula, jutting out into Lake Huron and partitioning out Georgian Bay, often called the sixth Great Lake, to the east. Tobermory’s main tourism draw, in addition to water-based activities, is the adjacent…
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Two nights in Niagara Falls, ON–Big Trip #5
We visited Niagara Falls as part of Big Trip #5 in August 2026. Crossing into Niagara Falls, Ontario marked our first time taking the Airstream to Canada! Not our first time visiting Canada while Airstreaming–that was when we popped across from Sault Ste Marie, Michigan to Sault Ste Marie, Ontario on Big Trip #1, but…
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Destinations Mountain West Pacific Northwest Pacific Southwest South Central Southeast Trip Recaps Upper MidwestBig Trip #4: Retrospective
Big Trip #4 was in fact a BIG trip! We covered a lot of ground and had all sorts of memorable experiences, and that’s why it took me almost four months to finish writing all the trip posts. My bad. But I love writing these retrospectives a few months after we get home because it…
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One night in Grand Rapids, MN–Big Trip #4
We were in Grand Rapids in August 2022, as part of Big Trip #4. Don’t confuse Grand Rapids, MN with Grand Rapids, MI, which we visited in 2016 while on Big Trip #1! Where to break up the drive from Duluth to Fargo? We chose Grand Rapids, based on the presence of breweries (for J)…
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Two nights in Duluth, MN–Big Trip #4
We were in Duluth in August 2022, as part of Big Trip #4 We read about Duluth somewhere on a “best of” list–who knows where or when, but we throw things we read onto a master map, and when planning trips we consult the master map. So Duluth became part of Big Trip #4, connecting…
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