Lake Superior (Minnesota)

[michael grace]

I listened to a radio broadcast about Lake Superior and the speaker

made reference to a long strech of sand dunes on the Lake Superior

shore line in Minnesota. Does anyone know about this - photogenic or

not? Thanks for your answer.

[alan_olander1]

I live in Minnesota and am not aware of any sand dunes on Minnesota's "North Shore". There is, however, "Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore" on Michigan's Upper Peninsula which has dunes. Much of Lake Superior is "photogenic".

 

Here's a link to "Pictured Rocks": http://www.nps.gov/piro/

[stemked]

I don't think so. I've traveled the North shore almost to the Canadian border; it's always possible I've missed a few spots. There are sandy beaches, even more so on the south shore. I just came back from the North Shore in Ontario, lovely sandy beaches in places but no dunes.

 

Of course there are massive ones on the south and east shores of Lake Michagen (Indiana/Michagen).

[alex_lofquist]

Probably the best known dunes on the Great Lakes are the Sleeping Bear Dunes on the eastern side of Lake Michigan west of Traverse City. There are some great sand beaches on the south shore of Superior, but I have never seen any dunes there.

[ken c oshkosh, wi]

On Superior they are the Grand Sable Dunes in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Huge and cool to see.

[david_poulin1]

There is a 6 mile long sand beach on Minnesota Point the City of Duluth with low dunes. The entire beach is public property and the last 2 1/2 miles is unoccupied and undeveloped. The point forms the harbor and can easily be located in the Rand McNally Road Atlas or state road map. Access is at a park at the end of the road. The Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Dunes in Michigan are much more spectacular.

 

Dave Poulin