2020 Camping Post #3 – A Tour of a Single City

July 22 seems so long ago. What have I been posting about here since then? Anyway, that Wednesday was our second full day of camping at Bewabic State Park in Crystal Falls, Michigan. It had been a cold, wet night the night before, and the temperature was only 59 when we finally headed out for a ride around 9:30. The sky assured us that rain was imminent. Our ride consisted of driving up and down pretty much every street in Crystal Falls, population 1,370, and taking up a distance of 3.47 square miles, so it’s not like traversing every street would be a major feat. I would have liked to walk some of those streets, but there were those rain clouds hanging overhead. Instead, a lot of pictures were taken through the truck windows and others were “snatch and go” (jump out of the truck, snap a half dozen pictures, jump back in, instruct Hubby to drive to the next block, where I repeated my antics. I hope no one was watching us.) And yes, the rain did eventually begin falling. I did, though, get the following pictures, between raindrops. 
Crystal Falls dam and power plant 

Clark’s Landing park which is adjacent to the dam 

Crystal Falls theater 
And lots of other buildings downtown 


The Iron County courthouse 
Harbor House Museum 


A Community Garden 
The Bigfoot Inn 
And finally Winks Woods, which is a fun little craft shop where we did some shopping to support the local economy. 
All of that took us just ‘til 11:15. After a lunch of leftovers, we read and napped and took a few short walks. Finally we resorted to building a campfire and making s’mores, even though we hadn’t eaten supper yet. But that worked out well as I was able to enjoy the s’mores more on an empty stomach.  This red squirrel enjoyed them too.
We went to bed hoping for better weather on the ‘morrow