by DanR » May 31, 2010, 8:33 pm
Canal Park and the Maritime museum are your first stops in Duluth. Dinner right next door at Grandma’s is always a good choice. While you’re in the area take part of a day and drive up the north shore on hwy 61 to Two Harbors, Split Rock Lighthouse and Gooseberry Falls and you will not be disappointed. Around Duluth I like to get out on the old RR bridge and boat landing under the Blatnik Bridge on HWY 53. You can get a decent view of Midwest Energy from under the bridge.
Across the way in Superior is Fraser Shipyards where you will see the E.L. Ryerson, American Victory and Adam Cornelius. When you drive over the bridgie on 53 take the first left past the shipyard and that takes you out on Connors Point where you get a decent view of the shipyard. On the south end of Superior you will see signs for Wisconsin Point where you can drive out to the Superior Entrance and see the lighthouse there. The hike out to the lighthouse is challenging across the large boulders that form the peninsula out to the light. If the weather’s rough, I would not try the superior light. Also there has been some theft of items from cars on WI Point so make sure to secure your car when you leave it and hide any valuables in the car.
There’s some major road construction on I-35 into Duluth and it is down to one lane so I would avoid that by taking Garfield Avenue off the Blatnik Bridge going north along the harbor to just before the bridge over the RR tracks where you go to the right and down towards Canal Park. You will see the old cutter Sundew along this route.
Another neat drive is out on Park Point across the aerial lift bridge out past the Coast Guard Station where the Cutter Alder is stationed. There is a large city park and beach at the end near the sky harbor airport.
Canal Park and the Maritime museum are your first stops in Duluth. Dinner right next door at Grandma’s is always a good choice. While you’re in the area take part of a day and drive up the north shore on hwy 61 to Two Harbors, Split Rock Lighthouse and Gooseberry Falls and you will not be disappointed. Around Duluth I like to get out on the old RR bridge and boat landing under the Blatnik Bridge on HWY 53. You can get a decent view of Midwest Energy from under the bridge.
Across the way in Superior is Fraser Shipyards where you will see the E.L. Ryerson, American Victory and Adam Cornelius. When you drive over the bridgie on 53 take the first left past the shipyard and that takes you out on Connors Point where you get a decent view of the shipyard. On the south end of Superior you will see signs for Wisconsin Point where you can drive out to the Superior Entrance and see the lighthouse there. The hike out to the lighthouse is challenging across the large boulders that form the peninsula out to the light. If the weather’s rough, I would not try the superior light. Also there has been some theft of items from cars on WI Point so make sure to secure your car when you leave it and hide any valuables in the car.
There’s some major road construction on I-35 into Duluth and it is down to one lane so I would avoid that by taking Garfield Avenue off the Blatnik Bridge going north along the harbor to just before the bridge over the RR tracks where you go to the right and down towards Canal Park. You will see the old cutter Sundew along this route.
Another neat drive is out on Park Point across the aerial lift bridge out past the Coast Guard Station where the Cutter Alder is stationed. There is a large city park and beach at the end near the sky harbor airport.