Enger Park: Duluth, MN

Although I tried to play things by ear when @mrsbozz and I took our recent trip to Wisconsin, there were a few things that I knew ahead of time we needed to do. The first was the guided cruise around the Apostle Islands that I have already posted about. The other thing I knew I wanted to fit in was a quick drive over to Duluth Minnesota. It's not that there was anything special I wanted to see in Duluth, but since we were only about an hour or so away from the Wisconsin/Minnesota border, I thought it might be cool to run over there. Plus, that way we would be able to add two states to our travel map instead of just one.

After we got to Wisconsin, I did a bit of research and I discovered that there was a pretty cool place called Enger Park that had an observation tower. I figured that was as good a place as any to start, so I punched it into Google Maps, and we were on our way. @mrsbozz took some photos as we made our way over. There are two main routes from Bayfield, WI to Duluth, MN. The quickest one takes you back south to Ashland, WI, and then pretty much straight across US-2 to the town of Superior, Wisconsin that sits just on the other side of the St. Louis River from Duluth.

The other route takes you north, through the Red Cliff Indian Reservation and along the coast of Lake Superior. We decided to take the northern route.

It was pretty foggy when we started out, but that seemed to be a pretty typical thing being right on the shores of Lake Superior. As we drove and the sun started to burn away the fog, things really cleared up for us. Eventually, we made our way over to Duluth. Shout out to my wife for taking most of the photos while I was driving. She did a great job.

It actually took a bit of time to get through Superior, WI and over into Minnesota, but @mrsbozz took as many photos as she could while I was navigating the traffic. I will just let them speak for themselves.

We made our way through the waterfront district of Duluth and then up into an area that used to be called Grand Mountain. That's where Enger Park sits looking down onto the cities of Duluth and Superior as well as the river and Lake Superior.

Despite having just spent the last hour or so in the truck, we opted not to climb the multitude of stairs to the top of the tower. It might have been cool to get the view from higher up, but I have a feeling it wasn't really much different than the views we got from down at the bottom of the tower.

Although we didn't climb the tower, we did walk around the rest of the park. They had a couple of areas that were heavily inspired by their sister city of Ohara in Chiba Japan.

We walked around the rest of the park, which was pretty packed for the middle of the day on a Friday. People were there eating lunch, doing work while they looked out across the skyline, and just strolling along enjoying the beautiful day we had been blessed with. It's a pretty cool place and if you ever make your way to Duluth Minnesota, I highly recommend you check out Enger park. Let me know how the view is from the top of the tower!