We will meet at 11:15am EST at the Munising Falls Visitor Center. You can walk less than a mile to see the falls. Then head back to the parking lot to change clothes in a restroom with flushing toilets and running water.  At 11:45 we will drive 15 minutes to Miner's Castle Point where you will have a little time to see the overlook and then hop on the shuttle at 12:30 to the trailhead start at Grand Sable around 2pm. 

You can use pit toilets and then we will take off down the trail! In about a mile you'll come our by the blue Grand Sable Lake and have the option to climb up a sandune and see the beautiful Lake Superior in the distance (photo on left).  Then we'll fastpack about 6 miles and come out by Log Slide on top of a huge sand dune.  You can take a gorgous photo here and in the distance see Au Sable Lighthouse which is where we'll head next 2 miles down the trail to camp.  

We will enjoy the evening on Lake Superior and hopefully get some pretty sunset photos of the lighthouse from the beach too.  You may take an after dinner stroll on the beach as the sunsets. It's a great place to skip rocks. There is a pit toilet. Bring your own TP. You can filter water from the lake or hike a half mile down to the lighthouse and fill your water at a spicket. 

You will wake up with a sunrise coming up over Lake Superior.  We can make breakfast at camp, or my favorite thing to do is pack up and go a half mile down to the lighthouse to make breakfast on the beach. It's also helpful to refill water and you can use the porta potty if you like. 

You have an option to go the next half mile on the sandy beach or on the trail.   We will then fastpack 11 miles to Trapper's Lake where we will take a break and swim. On our way to Trapper's Lake we will be able to use pit toilets and refill water from a spicket as we pass through Twelve Mile Campground.  

Trapper's Lake is beautiful and warmer than Lake Superior. (Every time I finish my swim a huge snapping turtle comes over to the shoreline to say hi.) Next, we'll hop back on the trail, head back along Lake Superior and go about 8 miles to Chapel Beach. We will see Chapel Rock (photo left) and set up camp. 

The night is free to eat, swim, skip rocks, and explore. There are nice, new pit toilets here. Bring your own TP.

We can make breakfast above the beach, overlooking the water, as the sun rises in the trees. Then we'll filer water and pack up. 

In the first 2 miles there will be a lot of beautiful overlooks down to the water below and the sun will make the cliffs light up in beauty and warmth.  This trail continues to follow the shoreline through the trees with places we can pop out and look over the edge and out into Lake Superior.  

At about 8 miles from our start, we'll come to Miner's Beach and Falls. The sand is soft and white. We can walk along the sand in the water (photo left) or above the beach on the soft, sandy trail.  Then our last mile climbs back up the bluff  and we have about a mile to our end at Miner's Castle Overlook (photo below). 

You are free to begin your travels home. There's a local KOA where you can take a shower for a small fee if you wish.