This year, the Harms Boone family annual Memorial Day camping adventure took us to Lake Michigan, somehow for the first time. We’ve had a strong preference for Lake Superior and crossing state lines in the past, so we changed it up and stayed within the boundaries of Wisconsin this time. We stayed at Wagon Trail Campground near Rowley’s Bay, Ellison Bay, and the “top of the thumb” as we saw someone put it.
Wagon Trail is a lovely, clean, and well-staffed campground. It’s also impressively quiet, thanks to the fellow campers observing quiet hours better than, I think, any other campground I’ve ever been to. Row by row these photos are:
- Grant Park, Milwaukee; a spring bubbling through the sand at Rowley’s Point, Door County; Detroit Island, Door County taken from the ferry.
- Lake Michigan looking south from Sand Dune Beach, looking back at the aforementioned beach from the very shallow water, and the round pebbles from under the water at School House Beach; all on Washington Island.
- Danielle on her bike along the Fern trail, me on the rocky shore of Duck Bay, and my bike leaned against a stone arch; all at Newport State Park.
- The Newport State Park shore of Europe Lake, me and the dog on the rocks on Newport Bay and Zoli himself with a close up.
Newport State Park was a great time. It doesn’t get as much attention as the other parks in the county on account of it being less developed and somewhat more remote, but it is gorgeous and I really want to spend more time there next time were up there. My bike has gravel tires on it, so it’s not an MTB, but was fine for the off-road trails in this park, especially the stretch along the isthmus between lakes Michigan and Europe. I’m eager to get back and ride around the southern portion of the park.
Finally, I renewed my Bitters Club membership, and enrolled Danielle too.
Previous camping adventures: