Treasures in Town

If you are not planning to go anywhere this weekend but, want to have a nice time in town, here is a recommended destination. I discovered it just last weekend and thought it may interest some of you.

We started driving East on M-59 and ended up in Jefferson road almost at the end of M-59. Just south of 23 mile road, on Jefferson, the drive was scenic with lake shore on the right hand side, marinas and boat views.

We ended up in a small park named Brandenburg Memorial Park situated at 50000 Jefferson Ave., just South of 23 Mile Rd., New Baltimore, MI, 48047. The nice thing about this park other than the fact that it has all the goodies for the kids like the play area, picnic tables etc, is the long fishing pier built into the water.

The lake provides an excellent opportunity for fishing Bass, Catfish etc. The Pier is a perfect relaxing place to go with family or read a book and enjoy the view of open sky and blue water all across like Vinny is doing in here.

The park has nice fall color and it had 50-60% color development last week which means that this week, the color would be peak. Enjoy a great weekend.

Michigan fall colors

It is October. If you are sitting home and doing nothing, please wake up and drive up north. It is absolutely gorgeous there with peak colors in several areas. I was up in Houghton, MI, which is way way out of the world and the beauty is breathtaking. Picture down - Taken in Houghton, MI, Oct 6th 2007.

The entire drive back until Mackinaw was splendid with vibrant colors. Fall colors in the lower peninsula will be at their peak by this weekend or the next weekend. So, if you are one of those leaf peepers, drive up to Mackinaw and come back, visit the few national parks in the cities along I-75 (Ex: Gaylord, Indian River, Rogers City, Petosky). Picture down - US-41, the most gorgeous road in fall, shot on Oct 6th, 2007.

We took the Michigan.org's advised color route for Keewenaw peninsula and when they say "if you are looking for fabulous fall colors, look no further than Michigan, they aren't lying". The colors are at their best. Pack those bags and run a leisure trip up north. Fall moves fast.

You will be too late for the color route linked above but, the areas in the lower peninsula, on the way to Mackinaw are beautiful at this time. You will hit peak color in most of the places if, you visit any, this weekend and the next.