Along the Portage Canal between Hancock, Michigan, and Lake Superior
Scenes near McLain State Park
Lake View Cemetery near Calumet, Michigan
Along Brockway Mountain Drive near Copper Harbor, Michigan
Our primary goal for this visit to Michigan was to find some areas of peak or near-peak colorful fall foliage. The following scenes were found near Shingleton, Michigan, at the beginning of October.
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After the Pictured Rocks area, we moved over to the western side of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula.
These scenes were found near Hancock, Michigan, in early October.
We spent a couple of days near Munising, Michigan, to take a boat tour of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior. We had taken a similar tour in 2008, but on an overcast and rainy day. During this visit we had nice sunny and calm weather. The shoreline along Lake Superior at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is mostly vertical cliffs of eroded sandstone that in areas are colored by vertical streaks of groundwater mineral deposits.
The cliffs were topped by nice fall color in places.
The water was an amazing clear green.
Some of the colorful streaking that gives Pictured Rocks its name
Kayak tour companies offer closeup viewing.
Fall color on Grand Island in Lake Superior
East Channel Lighthouse on Grand Island
