Hoeft State Park is an older park, one of the original 14
established long ago here in Michigan. The property was donated to the state in
the early 1920s and it has a beautiful picnic shelter built by the CCC during
the New Deal. It has a peaceful, lived
in feel about it. The park itself looks
like a park in the mountains. It is thickly
wooded with birch, maple and pines and its hiking trails thread through quiet
peaceful forests. However, if you follow
a sign marked “Beach” you cross a dunes system and find yourself on a beautiful
beach on Lake Huron. We read somewhere
that this is the only dune system on Huron in the US. On the beach, you can see many examples of the
threatened Pitcher’s Thistle (Cirsium pitcher).
The Adventure
When we were preparing to leave Alpena (previous post) we
were headed to Mackinaw City where we would take a ferry over to bike around
Mackinac Island. We checked the weather
and learned that it was going to rain the entire day we'd planned to be on Mackinac. So instead we came to Hoeft (which is midway
between Alpena and Mackinaw City) to wait out the rain. It was a lot nicer than waiting in the rain
here than in a small KOA city campground.
It was 58 degrees and rainy the entire day. We put on our foul weather gear and took Tiki
on several long walks. We did projects
around the motor home, read, and watched a movie. It was a delightful day off.
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