Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore-Munising to Grand Marias, MI (UP)

Pictured Rocks gets its name for the sandstone cliffs that tower 50 to 200 feet above Lake Superior.  There are several beautiful overlooks. 

Miners Castle Overlook

Au Sable Lighthouse was built in 1874 and automated in 1958.  Powered  by sunlight and not kerosene, the lighthouse remain active.

A dangerously shallow bottom of brown sandstone, Au Sable reef, extends about one mile near the Au Sable Lighthouse.  Thus the name given to this part of the coast, the "Graveyard Coast". 

Mingled "bones" of the Sitka (ran aground 1904) and the Gale Staples (ran aground1928) are viewable on the beach near the Au Sable Lighthouse.  Both crafts were very much alike-both were double decked wooden freighters.  Each had two masts and were 272 and 277 feet in length, built in 1887 and 1888.  Fascinating!!

 

Bear Trapp Inn

Stopped here to have a UP tradition-pasty (similar to a pot pie)