![]() ![]() Where the sandstone escarpment swings inland, miles of unspoiled beaches continue and finally the lakeshore comes to a crescendo with Grand Sable Banks, towering sand dunes perched high above the blue and turquoise-colored waters of Lake Superior. Seeping minerals have stained this stone canvas with a palette of colors reds and oranges from iron, black from manganese green from traces of copper, while the sun and the seasons allows you to return again and again and never see the same painting twice. The wind, waves and fury of Lake Superior have subsequently sculptured the soft sandstone into caves, arches, pinnacles and pillars with such fine detail they resemble castle turrets, battleships and Indian warriors. Towering 200 feet above the world’s largest freshwater lake, the multicolored cliffs extend along 12 of the 42 miles of shoreline within the park. Johnson signed landmark legislation that made Pictured Rocks America's first National Lakeshore. Then French Voyageurs paddling canoes laden with furs and early scholars like Henry Rowe Schoolcraft who in 1820 wrote that the bluffs were "some of the most sublime and commanding views in nature."Īnd finally a nation. First it was Ojibway tribes who would honor the spirits of such a grand creation by leaving behind tobacco. ![]() The towering sandstone cliffs known as the Pictured Rocks rarely fails to impress whoever passes through this far north. ![]()
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