August 4, 2015. This Place is Nuts! Ludington State Park is on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. It is the most popular state park in Michigan. There are over 350 campsites here and each is filled with families, cars are parked every which way, people crawl over the earth like ants on a sand mound. It is nuts.
Why would a sane person leave the serenity of a small, quiet piece of land in Clay County, Missouri, for the insanity of this place? Well, it is pretty. It is sandwiched between one of the Great Lakes and Hamlin Lake. The two bodies of still water are connected by the Sable River. The Sable is a lazy river filled with tubers. The sand beach on Lake Michigan is also a draw. Clearly, it is a popular respite for city dwellers in the area.
And, if you time it right, you can find some solitude here. We postponed our bike ride until the dinner hour. Most of our fellow campers were cooking or eating. We had the bike trials pretty much to ourselves. See what a little forethought can produce.
We will move further south in the morning. We are scheduled to stay in Warren Dunes State Park in southwest Michigan tomorrow night. From there, we will launch west. We should be home this weekend. It will be nice to sit on the deck and count the deer sauntering past the lake at sunset.
See you soon.
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