Castle Rock, St. Ignace, MI

Castle Rock is a look out, atop a large hill, then again up a large boulder.  The view was impressive to say the least and very well worth the buck to climb the 200-ish steps to reach it.

Trip to Mackinaw City and St. Ignace

Last weekend I took the wife and kids and we drove up to the bridge.. for those who don't know 'the bridge' in Michigan is the Mackinaw Bridge connecting the lower peninsula to the Upper.  It is the 16th longest single span suspension bridge in the world, and is a hair over 5 miles long.  It is a toll bridge too so for normal two axles vehicles it's $4.00 to cross.  The water was nice, clear and cold.. birds were ferocious at wanting food!

Rifle River Recreation Area

So the wife and I stayed at the Scaup Lake cabin, at RRR Area and I must say the trip was horrible.  Ok I need to explain that.. the weather was awful.  The entire three days and two nights it was overcast and drizzly.  Plus it seemed as though the deep south had shipped a large crate of humidity up there. then there were the mosquitoes... BIG ones and they were everywhere.

The lakes and the wood themselves are VERY pretty, very scenic and the Scaup cabin area was extremely quiet.  If the weather had been better it would have been awesome.

The cabin was very clean, and very cool (like temp-wise inside) plus cool in just.. cool.  It's not a CCC-era cabin, much newer but still nice.  Double-paned Anderson windows, an extremely heavy butcher-block style dinner table and nice wooden chairs.  The bunk beds however, were lacking in solid construction.. or maybe at one point in time they were structurally sound.  Anyone but a child sleeping up top would be dangerous to the lower occupant.