Duluth, MN

Duluth Canal area

Enger Tower

Even though we weren't all that excited about leaving Two Harbors last Friday, we've had a good time back in Duluth, MN.  We're staying a little out of the way from the local hot spots & tourist areas for the 4th of July holiday.  We're at Ogston's RV Campground just off US 53 near Saginaw, MN.  If it sounds familiar, we were here a couple of weeks ago, and this is the spot where we set awaiting our site to open in Voyageurs Natl Park when we worked there back in 2012 & 2014.

On this visit we've gotten out more in the local area visiting new areas that we hadn't visited before.  So far we've visited the lake shore in Duluth (as we have in visits past), Enger Tower Park, Jay Cooke State Park, Duluth Trading Company (had to visit due to all the TV advertisements we've seen over the last couple of years), and took a tour of the Cirrus Aircraft factory.

We've pretty much been out every day since we got here.  We've had a couple thunderstorms and the ground here is saturated.  Not a lot of top soil here, so if it doesn't rain every few days it gets pretty dry.

View from Enger Tower

We've probably spent the most of our outdoors at Jay Cooke State Park.  It's a pretty area on the St Louis River and has a gorge just south of the Thomson Reservoir that gets a lot of visitor attention.   The state park is also just off the Willard Munger State Trail (paved bicycle/walking trail) that we've rode once.  We hope to go back and ride it again, tomorrow.

St Louis River, Jay Cooke State Park (River In Visitor Center)

The tour at the Cirrus Aircraft Factory came highly recommended and is definitely worth your time if you're in the area.  The tour is about an hour and a half and is given on Wednesdays (as of this posting).   No pictures allowed on the tour, but they did let me get a picture of an aircraft as it was being detailed for delivery.

Willard Munger Trail Bridge over the St Louis River Gorge

So we've had an enjoyable week.  Next stop is near St Paul, MN.  Plans are to move Monday.  We're suppose to stay in a regional park near the bicycle paths, so we're looking forward to that.  We'll see how we deal with traffic!

Thanks for dropping in and checking on us.  Until next week, David

Cirrus SR22T

St Louis River Gorge (Jay Cooke State Park