Anml_341
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Pukaskwa National Park (PNP)near Marathon is now Big Rig Friendly with 12 sites having been rebuilt this past summer to handle the larger rigs up to 50 feet. The road is paved all the way to the park, hiking trails are awesome, plan to spend at least a few days. Want more info, send me an email... We have camphost at this for a number of years including 2009, great location. If you check our blog http://flspence.blogspot.com/ back in June 2009 you will see some pictures.
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Ney Provincial Park about 40 minutes drive west of PNP, was the location of a WW-11 German PoW Camp and the remains are still visible along with a small display at the visitor centre. They have campsites that will accomodate your rig. This park has also been nominated to become a historical spot but that might be a year or two away from being approved (hopefully).
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[quote=Anml_341]Pukaskwa National Park (PNP)near Marathon is now Big Rig Friendly with 12 sites having been rebuilt this past summer to handle the larger rigs up to 50 feet. The road is paved all the way to the park, hiking trails are awesome, plan to spend at least a few days. Want more info, send me an email... We have camphost at this for a number of years including 2009, great location. If you check our blog http://flspence.blogspot.com/ back in June 2009 you will see some pictures. Quote:
We'll second the recommendation on PNP. We stopped in for a one night stop in Sept '09 and pulled out five days later. It's a beautiful place on the north shore. One couple we met there called it "Canada's best kept secret" with good justification.
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DavidandDayle
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We did this two years ago. We found it rugged enough that we returned through Minnesota and Michigan.
Treat each town as if it only has one gas station. Usually there is. Passing up the first station because it looks a little rough may mean going on to the next town.
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jambo101
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DavidandDayle wrote:We did this two years ago. We found it rugged enough that we returned through Minnesota and Michigan.
Treat each town as if it only has one gas station. Usually there is. Passing up the first station because it looks a little rough may mean going on to the next town.
As the north and south routes are totally different what was it about the northern route you didnt like and how did you like the southern route?
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revrnd
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Sounds like they didn't enjoy driving the "hills".
I've been around Superior on both the US & Cdn sides. If you were travelling from western Canada or USA, US 2 & MI 28 from Duluth to Soo MI is flat compared to 17 from Thunder Bay to SSM Ont'.
If you stick to the highways mentioned, it's pretty non-descript. I've seen some great pics taken at the parks along the southern Superior shoreline in MI.
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RangerJay
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DavidandDayle wrote:We did this two years ago. We found it rugged enough that we returned through Minnesota and Michigan.
Treat each town as if it only has one gas station. Usually there is. Passing up the first station because it looks a little rough may mean going on to the next town.
This is funny - and I guess it shows that we all have different "comfort zones" - we visit family each year "down home" to Southern Ontario - but never feel comfortable in an environment that seems plagued with overdevelopment, line-ups, traffic tie-ups, speed, speed and more speed, impersonal customer service, smog and noise - to us this is just about as rough as it can get. Although it is wonderful to visit family - it is great when it comes time to point the rig back north .... towards home .... and interestingly enough - we hit our comfort zone about the Sault (although we still have a day and half drive after that point).
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RangerJay wrote:DavidandDayle wrote:We did this two years ago. We found it rugged enough that we returned through Minnesota and Michigan.
Treat each town as if it only has one gas station. Usually there is. Passing up the first station because it looks a little rough may mean going on to the next town.
This is funny - and I guess it shows that we all have different "comfort zones" - we visit family each year "down home" to Southern Ontario - but never feel comfortable in an environment that seems plagued with overdevelopment, line-ups, traffic tie-ups, speed, speed and more speed, impersonal customer service, smog and noise - to us this is just about as rough as it can get. Although it is wonderful to visit family - it is great when it comes time to point the rig back north .... towards home .... and interestingly enough - we hit our comfort zone about the Sault (although we still have a day and half drive after that point).
Jay
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