Fall colors on Lake Superior’s North Shore: Silver Bay and Beaver Bay area

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Someone left this for me to find on the footbridge across Penn Creek. Kudos to the artist.

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Shot from an overlook between Bean Lake and Bear Lake. The shore of Bean Lake is at the center of the photo.

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The colors on the hillside of Bean Lake scream out against the calm waters and grey sky.

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Clouds over Lake Superior, shot from overlook near Silver Bay.

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Local bands, feel free to use this on the cover of any live album you might be working on.

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Beaver River.

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Whenever I drive by the Beaver Bay Motel, I like to get really angry and tell everyone else in the car that it amazes me in this day and age that people of all races can’t watch the same cable TV.

13 Comments

  1. Andrew Slade Andrew Slade on October 13, 2009 at 5:20 pm

    Great photos…you catch the most ironic stuff. I’d have hiked the same trail and only rhapsodized about botany. This hike is a great one-day adventure from Duluth…an hour drive up there, a good 3-4 hours of hiking, then dink around on the way back for pie, coffee, brews.

  2. kokesie kokesie on October 13, 2009 at 6:47 pm

    I’m sorry, but the colors were TERRIBLE this year. Very disappointed.

  3. Beryl Singleton Bissell Beryl Singleton Bissell on October 13, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    Love the creative hiker who passed that way before you, and laughed with joy over your final photo and remark.

  4. udarnik udarnik on October 13, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    I agree with kokesie. They’ve been very dim up the shore.

  5. zra zra on October 13, 2009 at 8:13 pm

    i love that section of the soup. nice photos…

  6. Cory Cory on October 13, 2009 at 11:00 pm

    Colors are great if you get off the shore 5 miles inland. Good spot is up Temperance River road and then turn left on 600 Road. Colorful trees wrap over the road for a few miles as you head west towards Finland.

  7. vicarious vicarious on October 14, 2009 at 6:47 am

    We went up the gondola at Lutsen (with dogs!) and colors were fantastic.

  8. mevdev mevdev on October 15, 2009 at 7:01 am

    Great pics!

  9. sbuchanan on October 16, 2009 at 9:50 am

    Thanks Paul…it’s almost as nice as being there. …but not quite.

  10. Paul Lundgren Paul Lundgren on October 26, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    Yeah, I’m guessing the fall colors aren’t so special in Iraq, ay? Maybe the sand gets a little brighter.

  11. zra zra on October 26, 2009 at 4:26 pm

    Should send him a few leaves. We’ve sent coffee to guys in Iraq. Not hard to do.

  12. Tiffany Tiffany on September 30, 2010 at 7:00 am

    Nice comment! I hang out at the Beaver Bay Motel, which really isn’t a motel like every other weekend.

  13. Claire Claire on September 30, 2010 at 7:16 am

    Took the Jefferson bus down to the Cities yesterday, *gorgeous* foliage before we hit Hinckley. I love fall, and hope to be able to drive Hwy 23 soon, to do some leaf peeping.

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