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Cascade River State Park
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3 reviews for Cascade River State Park
This review is more for the Cascade River Falls than the entire state park.
While traveling the North Shore make a stop here if you want to take in some great views and you are feeling like doing some hiking. Like Dee mentioned you can park right off of 61 for free, so there is no reason not to stop the car and at least take a look.
At first the trails cris cross the river a few times giving visitors a view of the falls, but they then start to lead away from the river. Being one who doesn't like being told what I can and cannot do, I decided to leave the trail and just follow the river. We got amazing photos of the falls from up close and were actually able to sit on a rock ledge in the middle of the river right before a series of falls.
I plan on coming back here the next chance I get. I want to spend an entire day just hiking the river and trying to find places that most people do not get to see.
Fabulous, fabulous park between Lutsen and Grand Marais for day hikes within the park or to go through on the SHT on your way up to the top of the world.
Park for free on the side of Hwy 61 at the mouth of the Cascade River. You can access the trails that flank both sides of the river, with tons and tons of root-beer-colored falls. There are several hikes of various lengths and difficulties; the sedentary took a few steps around the mouth of the river and then went looking for french fries, while the hikers and Europeans actually chose to break a sweat. We (poseur-hikers) selected the popular Lookout Mountain loop that took us up to about 1100 feet and had wonderful views of the Sawtooth Mountains and Lake Superior.
Then I, with my razor-sharp orienteering skills, managed to get us onto the spur of the SHT leading back toward Lutsen, rather than actually completing the loop. So silly really since the park has maps of their trails posted allll over the blessed area, but it made for an enjoyable but grueling extension to our hike. Great scenery all around!
Pack some bug spray. Thankfully, we visited on an absolutely gorgeous day with a nice breeze that kept the ticks off. I am phobic about ticks, and Lyme disease, hell erlichiosis too but now I'm just sounding crazy...
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yes, more waterfalls!
10 miles southwest of Grand Marais (North of Lutsen by 8 miles) there are signs.
Of course, part of the Superior Hiking Trail.
All the trails and parks begin to blur together at this point, since we hit so many, but you really cannot go wrong with any of them.
Is it here we hiked down off the path a bit and walked amongst the calm waters and gathered tumbled rocks, almost stepping on a caterpillar sunning himself in the mid day sun?
Turn after turn we sunk into this gorge.
Or was that at another park?
you rally cannot miss on the north shore, that much is certain.
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