Lake Vermilion

Earlier this year was the grand opening of a new state park in Minnesota called Lake Vermilion. We are staying there now. The campsites are big, we have electricity, and the park has internet at the campsites (that part is highly unusual for a state park).

Earlier this year there was a major storm that went through the park. Lots of trees broke off.

View from a overlook.

…and a morning walk.

…and the lake. A cool thing is that we saw a plane with pontoons coming in to land in Lake Vermilion.

The park is very north and 40 miles or so from Canada. The nights are very dark and the stars are bright including the Milky Way. We’ve been checking for aurora borealis. We can see a glow in the north but it isn’t very colorful or bright. I’ll keep checking since it is so very variable.