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riders can either stand on the runners of a second sled that is attached to the main one
orsitrightinthemusher'ssled.Dependingonyourlevelofadventure,youcanchoose
from a half- or whole-day outing or opt for a more extensive, multiple-day trip.
7. Tahquamenon Falls State Park
ReachedbyaturnnorthonRte.123,thecaramel-coloredTahquamenonRiverisnoneother
than “the rushing Tahquamenaw” of Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. Beside its wa-
ters the poem's Indian hero builds a birch-bark canoe that “shall float upon the river like
a yellow leaf in Autumn.” Even Hiawatha's skill, though, couldn't have carried him safely
over Upper Tahquamenon Falls, where the river pushes up to 50,000 gallons a second over
a sandstone precipice in a wide copper-hued arc. Called the little Niagara, the Upper Falls
(the Lower Falls is farther downstream) is second in the volume of water flow only to
Niagara itself in the eastern United States. Stairs and observation platforms allow close-up
views of the wide, raging cataract, whose waters eventually flow into Lake Superior.
8. Whitefish Bay Scenic Byway
After heading south from the village of Paradise, on Whitefish Bay, the drive turns east
onto the well-marked Whitefish Bay Scenic Byway. Here the pines of Hiawatha National
Forest(theeasternunit)slopetoglisteningwhitebeachesalongthebay.Anumberofscen-
ic turnouts dot the byway, which culminates at Point Iroquois Lighthouse, built in 1870.
Visitors can climb its spiral staircase for a lofty view of the Canadian shore.
9. Sault Ste. Marie
CanadaloomsevencloserasthedrivenearsSaultSte.MarieatthenarrowendofWhitefish
Bay. Here 1,000-foot-long freighters laden with ore from Minnesota mines or grain from
theCanadianprairiespointtheirbowseastintotheSt.MarysRiver,whichflowsfromLake
Superior into Lake Huron, connecting the two lakes. Some of the longest, busiest canal
locksintheworldawaitthesegiantcargovesselsat“theSoo,”aslocalsrefertoMichigan's
oldest city. Visitors can gawk up at the locks' concrete walls from a sightseeing boat, or
they can peer down from above at the mammoth ships squeezing through. But the best
views of all await tourists atop the nearby 21-story Tower of History.
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