7.5 miles of hiking • 0' elevation gain •
Hit a few small trails in Copper Falls State Park, Wisconsin. The North Country Trail passes through. Lovely little hike (2 miles, partly out and back) through forest containing very old Lodgepole and Eastern White Pines, with Sugar Maple saplings glowing in the evening light. That was a spur off of the Doughboy Trail which is a Y-shaped encircling interpretive path passing Copper and Brownstone Falls. Not very big falls, but very interesting geologic history in this Lake Superior region, what with several types of stone (Red/black lavas, granite, conglomerate, shale).
The Red Granite Falls (Trail 2.5 miles) are really cascades over red granite, obviously. Some of this is eroded into rounded boulders, some is still sharp rectangles. Trail is next to Loon Lake, a very picturesque place to swim, kayak, and fish.
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