Get your fill of Lake Superior views on this 550-mile, five-day tour through prime hiking and biking country.
Packing List: Sea kayak with spray skirt, 29er, flannel shirts
Highlights: Rest up for your tour with a waterfront suite at Duluth鈥檚 (from $197). When you cross the Blatnik Bridge into Wisconsin, stop at in Superior for a Derailed pizza and an India Pagan Ale.
In Bayfield, buy provisions鈥攍ike smoked lake trout from Newago Fish Market鈥攖hen launch your kayak (or take a , $99) and explore the sea caves in 22-island Apostle Islands National Lake-shore.
Once you reach Michigan鈥檚 Upper Peninsula, take a detour up 11-mile-long Black River Scenic Byway and hike to any of seven waterfalls before the road dead-ends at Lake Superior. Book a room at , near the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula (from $99), and sip Knob Creek bourbon with your smoked spare ribs on the lakeside deck at adjoining Fitzgerald鈥檚 Restaurant.
Then head to Copper Harbor, which has some of the country鈥檚 best singletrack鈥攖he trails top out at 900 feet and roll through dense forest. Take a bike and have at it ( from $26). Drive down the sandy beach side of the Keweenaw Peninsula to the town of Marquette. Run the half-mile stairway up Sugarloaf Mountain, six miles north of town, then head to Black Rocks and take the 15-foot plunge into Lake Superior.
Pitch a tent lakeside at ($16) in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore and get to hiking, fishing, and paddling along the park鈥檚 40 miles of shoreline and in adjoining million-acre Hiawatha National Forest.
