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Cuyahoga Valley National Park received the most visitors in 2020 of all National Park System destinations in the Great Lakes basin. Image: Kyle Davidson – Created via Scribble Maps
By Kyle Davidson
Diahann Sproule and her family visit Michigan’s Upper Peninsula every summer, but 2020 marked their first cruise around Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
“It was packed. It was absolutely crazy busy packed,” Sproule said.
While Pictured Rocks Cruises ran at half capacity, everything from the cruise’s ticket office to nearby downtown Munising was packed, Sproule said.
“Kayakers? Tons. Hikers up on the top of Pictured Rocks? Packed. It was busy, there were people everywhere,” she said.
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Alison Niemi of Munising feeds a camel during a previous Pictured Rocks Days held at Munising’s Bayshore Park. The annual Pictured Rocks Days has been postponed until summer 2022, according to the Alger County Chamber of Commerce. The popular summer event, originally scheduled for June 12-13, is now slated to take place June 11-12, 2022, in Bayshore Park, as an event of this size “draws thousands of people” and “takes months of planning,” officials with the Alger County Chamber of Commerce wrote in a statement on its Facebook page. (Journal file photo)
MUNISING As spring approaches, Upper Peninsula residents have started planning for warmer weekends. While Munising and greater Alger County are popular summer destinations for U.P. residents and visitors alike, evolving COVID-19 regulations have led to some uncertainty surrounding the area’s annual events.