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summer, 9am-5pm Tues.-Sat. fall-spring, $9 adults). The P-38 is an intriguing welcome,
sitting next to the Bong Bridge to Duluth.
Barker's Island and SS
Meteor
From the Bong Veterans Historical Center, the few hundred yards to and around
Barker's
Island,
tracing Superior Bay, are a ready-made traveler's leg stretch. The island's state-of-
the-art
marina
is the largest marina on the Great Lakes and among the largest freshwater
marinas in the world.
Moored permanently and gracefully on the west end of the island, its anchor rammed
into the earth, is the crown jewel of the island. The
SS
Meteor
Maritime Museum
(715/
392-5742,
www.superiorpublicmuseums.org
,
10am-4pm Mon.-Sat., 11am-4pm Sun., mid-
May-Labor Day, limited hours Labor Day-Oct., $7 adults) is the only extant whaleback
freighter on the Great Lakes of the type designed and built in Superior's early shipyards.
The massive “lakers” that prowl the channels of the Twin Ports are direct descendants of
the leviathan 1896 Superior shipyards product.
Need more exercise? From the island, Osaugie Trail continues for five miles along the
harbor past some lovely natural areas, and those in super shape could walk all the way to
Wisconsin Point.
Wisconsin Point
Just east of Superior, off U.S. 2 at Moccasin Mike Road, a narrow sandbar breakwater,
called
Wisconsin Point,
acts as a protective lip to the large harbor. The formation is the
largest seminatural breakwater in the world and offers a wild, off-the-beaten path snoop in-
to the great harbor. It's a quiet, isolated place with innumerable forks, pulloffs, dead ends,
and turnoffs. The highlight of the excursion is the
Superior entry lighthouse.
No tours are
available, but you can get fairly close.
