We stayed a total of 15 days here – our longest stay anywhere during this trip since Dean has many family members and friends in this area.
This is a big park with lots of plain sites, but we have fancy furniture and fire pit. Furthermore, we are surrounded on 3 sides by cabins and another RV behind us. We arrived on August 27, 2017, before Labor Day weekend and were curious about the ebb and/or flow over the coming days.
The place was crazy busy for the weekend. I think there were no empty sites at all. We expected crowds because we had a hard time finding an available place when we started looking over 2 months ago. Our conservative estimate was that there were over 200 RVs here plus cabins and we never did venture far enough out to see if the tent area was full too. We just hunkered down and enjoyed family who came to visit.
Then by the end of the day on Monday, the park was virtually empty. At 9 pm- after another family visit ended – Dean and I ventured forth to investigate. There were 2 other RVs and 1 or 2 occupied cabins. It was eerily quiet after all the weekend hoopla.
Frankenmuth
While in Michigan, we did some sightseeing. The first stop was Frankenmuth, a Bavarian village.
Apparently, Frankenmuth is also famous for chicken dinner. Not the most Bavarian thing in my book, but the chicken dinner service started (across the street) in the 1920s and stuck. This sign is from 1936. Yes, we had some.
Detroit
And we went into downtown Detroit. There has been quite a lot of development in recent years. Cool architecture-some new, some historical. Not what I had pictured. And it has an All-American Road, too.
There were several scenic spots downtown. This area reminded us of the Bellagio Fountains back in Vegas, only a smaller scale.
Not far from the sports areas for baseball and football is the historical Fox Theater.
Another fun activity is a visit to the Henry Ford Museum. You need more than one day to visit this place! One of the interesting sections of the museum is the one showing RVs from back in the day, such as this 1935 Stagecoach travel trailer given by Henry Ford to Charles Lindbergh in 1942. We would have liked to have seen the interior.
