{"id":3965,"date":"2013-10-01T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:17:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:17:28","slug":"upper-midwest-trip-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2013\/10\/upper-midwest-trip-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Midwest Trip Day 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hurley, Wisconsin, July 16 \u2014<\/strong> If I had known I would spend 25 hours in Eastern Time I might have gone ahead and switched the cameras. (And then I found out I had set the wrong date on a camera anyway, because it doesn’t hold the date after the batteries are swapped out. Oops.)<\/p>\n

Route: M-26 to end, US 41 to end, US 41, M-38, US 45, US 2<\/p>\n

The Upper Peninsula is beautiful to drive through. Once. In July. It was very pretty, but I could only go about 40 mph because of all the curves. Strong thunderstorms had moved through before I started, but then it was sunny and I could see water evaporating from the road (and also on M-38 later).<\/p>\n

I pulled up to the Copper Harbor Lighthouse tour about 10 minutes before the noon tour left. There was a handful of other people on the boat out to the lighthouse, and then we ran into a pair who canoed(!) out.<\/p>\n

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\nCopper Harbor Lighthouse<\/em><\/p>\n

After that, I drove up to north end of US 41, and so did a half-dozen other vehicles right after me. For a road whose paved part dead-ends it was a popular place. After a short stop at the visitors center,\u00a0I started driving down 41, which like 26 was very winding and tree-y and didn’t open up until much later.<\/p>\n

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\nAbout 2.5 miles south, Miami is still 1990 miles away. The accuracy of that number may be debatable because of assorted reroutes.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nFirst intersection for US 41 on the way to Florida. I’ve been on part of 41 in every state now.<\/em><\/p>\n

In Calumet, I stopped at the Keweenaw National Historical Park museum but first I needed to eat; it was nearly 3 PM EDT. (While there is a place to eat in Copper Harbor, the use of Comic Sans on the sample menu disagreed with me.) I asked for some advice, got it, and walked to Joe’s Pizza, where I proceeded to order a pizza bread and “hot cheddar bites.” Hot, as in spicy. Ohhhh.<\/em> *drinks gallon of water*<\/p>\n

The museum is relatively new, lots of light colored wood in a building formerly the Masonic Temple. There was 14-minute documentary about mining in the area. After a strike in 1913, production began to wind down as the West became more profitable, and another strike in 1968 killed the rest. Calumet was a very multi-ethnic city, as many were at the time, but population plunged after mines closed. Downtown was brick paved in 1905.\u00a0Number of churches cut in half. Very much a company town with company chipping in for churches, schools, library, fraternal groups (had a room on that too).<\/p>\n

Left when the museum closed at 5 and still had <100 miles on the day. Of course, it was very light outside, what with this part of the UP being in Eastern Time for no good reason.<\/p>\n

Followed 41 south, encountering a long delay for a long one-lane construction project at the Baraga County line. At Baraga I took M-38 east, where I had two separate short heavy downpours while the sun was visible, and saw two does along the way.<\/p>\n

US 45’s trees are closer in than US 2’s are in places. I clinched 45 in Michigan by going to Land O’Lakes WI and turning around, which also gave me another Wisconsin county.<\/p>\n

Got to Ironwood area about 8. Road is four lanes with turn lane west of M-28. I ended up at the Days Inn in Hurley, just into Wisconsin, at the north end of US 51.<\/p>\n

New counties so far:<\/em>\u00a030 (4 NE, 2 SD, 14 MN, 4+1\u00a0WI<\/strong>, 3+2 MI<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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