Sunday, August 6, 2017

JULY 31 - AUGUST 6: A Week in Manistique (well almost)

On Monday, July 31, we left the Kewadin Christmas Casino. It was time to dump the tanks, and we were a little ahead on playing the slots.  The Bay Furnace Campground in the Hiawatha Forest Recreation Area was across the street from the casino. We used their dump station for a $5 fee, and emptied our waste tanks and filled up with fresh water to be ready for our next destination which had only electric hookups - the Kewadin Manistique Casino.




This casino has a 10 site free campground on grass with 20 amp electric hookups.  There are two 30 amp outlets at the edge of the parking lot and we were able to get one of those. The casino is on Hwy. 2 about 4 miles east of Manistique and is another small facility with a restaurant, bar, over 250 slot machines and a  virtual roulette table, but no hotel or entertainment center. We didn't finish in the black, but our losses were a small price to pay for 6 nights of free camping.

During our stay, we explored the town of Manistique and some of the surrounding area, spent time on the shore of Lake Michigan watching the waves and the people, and found a great grocery store - Jack's Foods.  This is the first large grocery we've found since we left Oklahoma. Most grocery stores in the U.P. are small, not much bigger than an Aldi's, so the selection is not always very good. The weather was comfortable and we had two days of rain accompanied by very high winds.

Today we pulled up the jacks and made the 2 hour drive to Brimley, MI and the Bay Mills Campground, across from the casino on the Whitefish Bay of Lake Superior, about 15 miles west of Sault Ste. Marie.


Bay mills resort casino rv campground


  This is a campground with gravel pull-thru sites, full and partial hookups, free cable and good WiFi bathhouse, laundry and dump station.

Bay Mills Resort & Casino




We're in site 1,  the one on the far left. The casino is across the street via the walkway.



This is a return visit for us and we'll be here for a week. This larger casino has a hotel with 142 rooms, 4 restaurants, 1000 slot and video poker machines, table games, free alcohol and soft drinks while playing,  and an entertainment center.


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