“From over there!”
And he kept a straight face just long to say ,”must be a ghost,” and then started laughing for having caught me off guard. This little comedy routine shouldn’t have surprised me too much.
We were, after all, skiing through a ghost town.
If you’re tired of striding across golf courses, then you’ll find the Upper Peninsula has some unusual Nordic alternatives. One of the best is the ghost town of Fayette.
Located in Fayette Historic State Park, Fayette was a company iron smelting town that in its heyday in 1880s boosted 500 residents, a hotel, a company store, an opera house and the blast furnaces and kilns needed to turn ore into pig iron.
Fayette Historic State Park - 16th Annual Fayette Fall Fest (campers only)
Fayette Historic State Park - 16th Annual Fayette Fall Fest (campers only)
Date: October 02, 2021
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Please note: The DNR may have to scale back some parts of our popular harvest festivals due to COVID-19 operational procedures and protocols designed to protect the health and safety of visitors, volunteers and staff. We will post a full list of activities closer to the event date.
We invite campers to join us for the parks 16th Annual Fall Fest! This year we encourage you to go all out with your site decorations, so other campers can enjoy the sights as they stroll by. We hope to have many of our traditional activities return this year and will be posting a full list of activities closer to the event date. This event is open to registered campers and their visitors only. Be sure to make your reservations early. We look forward to welcoming you for some festive, fall fun. For more inf