The lift bridge has a spot in my heart, as it was there, back in 1941, that my father rescued my mother from being drowned! They and another couple had driven up to Duluth from St. Pul, and decided (in spite of the weather ) to walk out to the end of the canal leading to the lift bridge. Huge waves were breaking against the ends of the concrete wings on either side of the canal, rolling under the lift bridge and into the harbor. The waves were dumping water over the raised sides of the canal and the relatively protected channel in the middle of each wing was awash with water from the waves, so they walked on the raised sides where passing waves were only ankle deep. Then a larger wave than average came in, and swept my mother off the wall and into the navigation channel. As she often said, she could swim like an anvil, and was about to go under, when the next wave lifted her up even with the top of the wall - my father, who was very strong - caught hold of her hand and dragged her back onto the wall! Soaked with the frigid lake water, they struggled back to shore and up onto the street at the base of the bridge. Talk about a memorable date! The were married a year later, during WW2. when he came home on leave from the Navy
Absolutely an amazing story!! I had a good time reading this one! swimming is one thing, but for how cold that lake water is, I feel like it could almost paralyze a person pretty quick. You'd definitely have to be a physically and mentally strong swimmer to make it in that lake. Thank you So incredibly much for sharing your story 🙏
I was born and raised in Duluth. My Dad and his brother built a motel up highway 61 one mile from the pumping station that took lake water for the area. Life was wonderful for a young boy. I played every day down on the lake shore and in the woods behind our motel, which by the way is called "Lake Breeze Motel" and it is still there. My father and uncle sold it around 1962 or so. Thank you for a very well done video.
Hey no problem!!! thank you for sharing your backstory. I just googled the lake breeze motel, and sure enough I did drive by it when I was up there.....hoping to get back up there in late spring and do another video, and next time I drive by that motel Ill be think of this comment! thanks again for sharing your story and checking out the video!
Lived in Duluth for 2 years in the mid 70's, and still really love that town. Can't count the number of times I crossed that lift bridge. In Winter, with high winds and driving snow, it was a bit of an adventure in the car I owned at the time.
We have visited Duluth several times a years for nearly 50 years. Most Minnesotans love the city and are very protective of it. We always visit the beach at Park Point and walk it, summer and winter when it is dramatic with ice formations. One summer evening, when our kids were 6 & 9, we were just walking along the canal after dinner. It was very foggy and visibility was limited. Someone was busking, playing beautiful violin music. We just sat on the huge shoreline rocks and took in the sound of waves and the violin.
Minnesota Point is locally dubbed "park point". I lived in the apartments out there for three years. It was always hilarious when tourists would freak out when I'd get stuck at the bridge and get out of my car and walk out to the peer. They thought they would get stuck forever probably as if I wasn't coming back. Usually they would figure out how logistics work and get out to walk over to the peer also 😂
My wife and I live in the Mankato area. We are both UMD grads. My wife got her MRS degree there and we have been married for 45 years. We lived in the Duluth area for the first 24 years of our lives. This video was well done and we enjoyed it. Thanks
MANKATO!!!! thats my old stomping grounds! Went to college there for a couple years.....my favorite pizza place in mankato, still to this day is Pagliais pizza....man i miss it!!! Thank you for sharing, and I appreciate you checking out the video!
I fell in love with Duluth the first time I was there. The wife and I want to retire to Minnesota Point. Also, being a SCUBA diver there are lots of wrecks to dive along the Minnesota shoreline!
that'd be one awesome place to retire! and yes!!! the countless shipwrecks you could explore, god only knows what else is in that lake....thanks for checking out the video!
Nicely done! My wife was born and raised in Duluth and was and East Greyhound. We were married at St Johns Church just north of UMD. My father-in-law would trout fish on the Lester River nearly every weekend. Luvd Canal Park and watching the boats. Her uncle was an engineer on one of the ore boats. Now from sunny Fort Myers FL... enjoy your next trip further north!
The North Shore is simply stunning! Waterfalls, a lighthouse ,a highway that has views that are as nice as any route in this great country of ours. If you do make this trip make sure to stop by Bettys Pie(love how you snuck in a glimpse of it in your drone footage)
Next time you're up there, check out the train museum. We go there every year for their Halloween train ride. Also, a lot of people don't realize how long of a drive hwy 61 is. It's about the same amount of time from Duluth to Grand Portage as it is from Duluth to Bloomington.
My 15 year old son and I took a road trip to Duluth this past summer. We live in Northwest Minnesota. It was probably the most memorable trip of our lives so far. We spent the weekend there. We saw the harbor and lift bridge and went out to the point. We toured the William A Irvin, the Glensheen Mansion, the Enger Tower Park, North Shore drive, and Superior, Wisconsin. I would love to go back again. We also saw the Queen of the Lakes Paul R Tragurtha (largest ship on the lakes), the James R Barker (awesome horn), as well as several other ships come in and out of the harbor. We also toured the train museum and took the scenic rail.
I just took my 9 year old son and his friend up to Duluth last weekend. We go for a week at least once a year and usually a couple long weekends. Love it up on the North Shore!
In the 70s I was attending UMD. Coming from a farm in southern Minnesota, Lake Superior fascinated me. I loved to sit in the parking lot of canal park during storms and watch the waves crash over the rocks protecting the park area. The water was about 6” deep where I was parked that day. I heard the bell on the lift bridge start to ring so I backed around to see who was leaving. The Edmond Fitzgerald came out on her last voyage. Three days later, the news reported that the Edmond Fitzgerald was missing. Her last contact was near Whitefish Bay. Such a sad loss. Lake Superior, as beautiful as it is, can be very deadly
whoa!! that fact that you got to see the Edmund fitzgerald head out into the lake before she sank, thats something!.....thank you for sharing! watching the crash over the rocks is always fun to watch up there!
Great video! I'm from the LP of Michigan and my Duluth story is from 8 years ago. We had a family camping trip in the UP and were staying in the Porcupine Mountains and decided on a daytrip to Duluth, spur of the moment. Without any real plans we ended up driving through town up to Skyline Parkway and pulled off into Chester Creek Park just to get our bearings and figure out what we wanted to do. Turned out that the park was awesome and our kids played there for a bit as we explored. We ended up having a great lunch in the area, went to the Great Lakes Aquarium and walked the city and Lakewalk. Was a top 10 family day period for us and we still talk about our youngest playing tag with the otters and getting to see the bridge and ships coming and going. I wish Duluth was closer because we'd love to get back there for longer than the 6ish amazing hours we had.
Awesome! I enjoyed reading this story! Duluth is one of those places that once you go once, you have to keep on coming back! thank you for sharing! appreciate you checking out the video!
I love the Duluth area with so much to see and do, so much history to explore and nature to experience. I have driven across the aerial lift bridge a couple times just because I needed to. I still remember the sounds of tires 🛞 running across that steel grating of a bridge surface.
I agree!!! I've been there dozens of times since I was a kid, and still, I feel like I've only done a handful of things up there! Appreciate you checking out the video!
I have relatives in Duluth and have visited there probably 30 times or more in my life. I have always loved that city, the hills and Superior as well. Lake Superior has a certain mystique to it, a feeling you don't get anywhere else, at least to me. Great video!
Thank you! and I agree about the mystique to lake superior. if that lake could talk I bet it could tell us some amazing stories, other than shipwrecks, god only knows whats at the bottom of that lake and the other mysteries it holds. Thank you for checking out the video! 🙏
Had visited Duluth for a Railroad Passenger Car Convention (RPCA)in January. Temperature -18F. The Railroad museum is well worth going too and we did get to go see the Mansion. The industrial infrastructure is really neat, especially the ore docks. Will be back someday ✨.
The most notable memory I have is being there when Vlieborg struck the canal wall in 2005. I wasn't quite in line of sight when it happened but we could tell it didn't look like it was moving quite right, and then we saw smoke start billowing as they put it in full reverse and suddenly come to stop. When we got to the canal we saw a chunk taken out of the wall and one of the light laying shattered on the ground. I don't get there more than once or twice a year so it's still wild to me that I just happened to be there the one time a ship struck the pier.
Every summer since i was a kid my grandma took me and my family up to stay in duluth near the lift bridge. Loved watching the freighters coming into port, 1000 feet of steel hidden behind fog. My most notable memory was going up to Gooseberry Falls, slipping on the wet granite and giving my family directions back to the car while concussed.(I also almost fell off of that cliff you drove under at 11:11)
Amazing!!! Loved reading this post and I know exactly what you mean!! gooseberry falls is absolutely gorgeous, but I can remember as a kid playing on the rocks and taking a few falls.....those rocks can be pretty slick! really wish I could have captures a freight coming through the bridge, but it was a very last minute trip. In the late spring Im hoping I can do another trip back to MN and making a video driving from duluth to grand marais, and of course stop at gooseberry and many other places along the way! thank you again for sharing the story about your grandmother and thank you for checking out the video! 🙏
@@jessiesdroneadventures7464 keep the content coming, love the drone shots, especially that parallel flyover of minnesota point
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I used to visit Duluth frequently back in the mid 90's when my buddy Don worked at WDIO tv station. My most memorable visit was in 1994 when I caught the annual Hawk Ridge raptor migration. That year, the weather had prevented the departure of the birds as it was cold and rainy and they accumulated at Hawk Ridge. The birds can't fly over the water. They need warm air thermals to successfully fly around the water of Lake Superior. The Saturday I was there, the weather cleared up and I was lucky enough to witness wave after wave of birds taking flight, spiraling upward, riding the wind, by the thousands, over a quarter million according to some Audubon members estimates. The birds were so thick, they looked like high clouds from a distance, coming into clear view as they drifted by. One of the most spectacular things I have ever seen.
My first trip to the Duluth and the North Shore was when I was about 6. I've been there over a dozen times since, including my honeymoon. Love hearing the master salute between a ship and the bridge when a ship enters or leaves the harbor.
My grandpa was an electrician and worked on the lift bridge. When I was in elementary school I got to go up in the house on the bridge with him and hit the button to sound a horn on the bridge.
I live in Superior, just across the bay from Duluth. The aerial lift bridge still fascinates me every time I see it or go under it with my boat. Thanks for a great video.
I live northwest of Duluth, it’s a favorite place to go ! No matter how many times I visit there is always more to see and do !! It’s really sad to see it turning into a dump, drugs, crime and trafficking is horrendous there :(
We visit Duluth and the North Shore every year, sometimes twice! The Canal Park area can get really busy from Thursday - Sunday in the summer. Worth it.
grew up in Gary, MN. first concert was Petra @ the DECC. fireworks over the harbor was my youth. never thought anything of it till I relocated inland, to the prairie. now it is a treat to see Gitchi.
You clearly have a photographer's eye. I doubt I am the only one who enjoys both the content of your videos, and how well you craft your videos. In addition, I also appreciate your matter-of-fact style of narration. Yes, you include an occasional bit of home-spun humor. But it's not clownish. Kudos all around. Thank you for producing such fine work. Cheers.
Hey thank you so much! I try my best to make them educational without sounding like a boring college professor, hence the comedic touch....Thank you for those kind words and also for tuning into the video 🙏
Good thing to see is not that going in the summer or fall but it’s actually going in the winter to see Bentleyville “duluths light display on the canal” and watching the coast guard break the ice on the lake it’s a sight that you’ll never forget
The channel “vibe with Mike” just put up a video with the largest ship on the lake leaving the canal and Bentlyville appearing in the background, then the fireworks!
Whenever I'm up in Duluth i make it a point to drive out on MN Point all the way to the end and back. It's truly a gem amongst all the attractions in the area.
I was born and raised in Duluth, 40 years now. I worked in Canal Park for 12 years... Watching the lake and the boats come in never gets old. And the history is even better.
My family did yearly trips to Duluth every summer in the 80s. We’d stay at a motel in Canal Park and little kid me had to run down every time a ship came in or out. I met a former crewman from the Edmund Fitzgerald up there. I still go up as much as I can as an adult. My girlfriend had never seen a lake freighter in person before so I had to change that.
The Radisson and the rotating restaurant. Loved that place. Cliff and Shore Resort too up the way. It's gone now. Sturgis is home but loved Duluth and the ships. Houston doesn't have this... straight ass cargo ports and ya can't get close.
I been up to Duluth a couple of times, been across the lift bridge, which is very neat. I went through the Robert Irvine ship. We also went up in the Enger Park Tower. I want to check out Palasade Head next trip. I am also looking at the dji mini pro 4. It took some amazing video. Thanks for the great video.
You didn’t cover all the intrigue between MN and WI in the creation of the canal. TL;DR: Duluth pulled all nighters getting the canal dug before the WI contingent could reach Washington DC and force the stop of the canal which would have given all the shipping revenue to WI rather than MN. Luckily for Duluth/MN, it took a long time to travel back in those days and Duluth was able to complete the canal before the WI crew reached DC and so the docks and revenue went to Duluth/MN rather than Superior/WI.
Several years ago, my wife and I stayed a couple of nights at the hotel at the east end of the lift bridge and had a great time in the revitalized area near the bridge. Just stumbled onto your channel and the CA gibe instantly earned my sub!
I grew up in Duluth. Back in the day you could ride the bridge up and down. You would be walking across the bridge and a horn would blow and the guy in the house would come on the loud speaker and say “ stop where you are the bridge is about to move”. Also skyline drive has a ;great view
Love the North shore. As you stated, Congdon mansion would be cool, I haven't been there since the '80s. Gooseberry and Split Rock Light House may also be interesting. Love your work, keep it up!
YES!!!! omg, all those place me and my family would visit when were kids! Im already planning another trip out there in the late spring, and I will most definitely be stopping in at ALL of those places! the congdon Mansion always gave me the creeps, but thats why I must go back!!! Thank you for checking out the video 🙏
Duluth is a beautiful place. The sunrises and sunsets are breathtaking. This has also turned into a huge passion as since late 2019, I’ve been recreating Duluth as a virtual game.
You absolutely have to go to rustic Inn for their pie.. it's not too far south of gooseberry Falls.. try the North shore Berry crunch or the caramel apple pecan. do not go to Betty's pies... They are overrated. You also need to stop at Russ Kendall's fish market. It's on Highway 61 on the left hand side if you're going north, but I can't remember what little town it's in. I also noticed you flew across flood Bay which is one of my favorite spots.. we usually stop in two harbors and pick up sandwiches at Subway and sit outside on the rocks at flood Bay before going on to gooseberry Falls.
Been to Duluth and crossed the bridge. It was in June and at night it was down to freezing. And very warm during the day when I stayed over in superior WI. Lived in Minneapolis at that time. The steep roads in Duluth were as amazing how they must have drove them during the winter. I was hoping you showed some of those.
I wish I could have....but I was pressed on time.....when I head back out that way in the spring, mark my words, I WILL GET SOME VEIWS OF THOSE STREETS, I've wondered the same thing haha, thanks for watching!
I grew up in northwest Minnesota. When I moved to Mankato 25 years ago in college I told my mom I was living in the Minnesota Tropics. 2 inch rain storm in January. Motorcycles in February.
Hey Jessie ! Born in St. Paul ('55) Raised in White Bear Lake, escaped to Arizona in '84. My dad was a big RV'er, but we didn't head up there a lot. He preferred the central lake country, since my grandparents were in Litchfield. We spent a ton of weekends at this park on the St. Croix across from Osceola. I always scoff at them calling the reservoirs "lakes" down here. I've lived it folks, get real. Later !... Jim in the desert.
St. Paul!!!! i know that city pretty well, and my friends parents have an antique store in white bear lake! small world.....last time I was in osceola I shotgunned a beer and cascade falls!.....good times! kind of makes me want to do more minnesota based content haha. and I know what you mean about the reservoirs, when I first moved to AZ and people told me there were lakes down here, I was pretty excited, then I was slightly disappointed when I found out they were reservoirs, still fun to visit though! thanks for checking out the video!
I live in north central Minnesota, 7 miles from Itasca State Park, I couldn’t imagine moving to the desert after living among all these trees and lakes !
You should try to go all the way up 61 to the Canadian border. There are beautiful places seemingly every mile all the way up👍🏼 If you liked Palisade you’ll REALLY like Temperance River (and many other spots)
The Duluth canal was hurriedly built to stop Superior from being the only port which was before congress at the time as I remember it. Most people don't realize there is a natural channel in Superior. I remember hearing about the murders in Glensheen and I was in the north when the retrial was ordered. During the same period of time Ashland Wi was a large port as well. Large enough that Douglas MacArthur went there to get transport to West Point.
Fun fact: When they originally dredged the Duluth harbor in the early 1900s, the millions of cubic yards of sand spoils were dumped offshore of the point. This sand washed ashore over the decades and built huge dunes on the point. Much of the sand blew back into the harbor, decade by decade. Much was hauled away. Blinding sandstorms were common. In the meantime, the building of the piers, dredging of the harbor, hard surface runoff from development, dam construction, and armoring of feeder rivers has cut off the longshore drift sand supply to the MN Point. Now they 'nourish' the beach with sand. Like most sand bars, it is always relocating and countering changes made.
It’s definitely worth it !!! Make sure you drive the north shore all the way up and give yourself time to make stops along the way. Camp or book hotels but make reservations because it fills up in summer and fall !!! Lutzen ski resort has amazing gondola rides with beautiful views !
The stone structure in the water at 50 seconds in! Locals call it the ice house. I've swam out there and jumped off with my family before. Late July, early August, the water might get up to 63°
Great video,was planning a trek towards Duluth from Seattle visit the Railroad sites there along with the lake sites,thanks for bringing us along on your adventures
I was born and raised in Minnesota and now my wife and I live in northern Wisconsin about an hour and a half from Duluth. We’re in Duluth at least a couple times a month. If not more. Unfortunately, if we need anything from a store like Home Depot, Menards or Fleet Farm. Or my favorite store, Hobbytown! Duluth is the closest place to go. I completely agree that Duluth is a pretty and beautiful area. But having said that… I have ZERO idea why people choose to live there. It seems to me that no matter where you’re going in Duluth… You’re always going uphill. And it’s an extremely steep uphill battle. Anyway, rant over! I promise. My favorite memory of Duluth is Glensheen Mansion. My wife and I were married there back in 2016 with a small group of family and friends and while I’ve definitely made a lot of dumb decisions and done a lot of stupid things in my life. Marrying that woman is, has been and will always be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life!
Loved reading this story! and I completely agree about always going uphill, i always wondered how people do it in the winter. Glensheen mansion is one of my favorite places to visit in duluth! never gets old. Congrats on the marriage!
Loved the video. I travel to Duluth from the cities at least once a year (usually for a men's league hockey tournament in October). For the last 7 years, we have stayed in Park Point at different rental homes. One of my favorite was right next to the lift bridge on the east side. Got to see the lift in action many times that weekend. Spent lots of time walking over the bridge to get back and forth from the Toga' :)
Interesting video! I’ve been watching Vibe With Mike. He films the lakers going through the canal there. Probably why this came up in my feed. I’m glad it did as it provides good history of the bridge itself. Thanks!
I was there earlier this year for the Grandmas Marathon. I fell in love with it. And now I watch all the videos of the cargo ships going under the lift bridge. We didn’t know about the Skyline Drive or we would have done that .😢
Glensheen has amazing grounds, early summer is a great time to go...I would avoid paying the extra for the "attic tour" on the house tour, you walk up some steps, see some boxes of old magazines and newspapers and rolled up rugs, then back down the stairs...was like a extra 30 bucks almost 20 yrs ago. While looking at mansions, in Superior is the Fairlawn mansion, which has a intersting(non murder) history and a feud that culminated in Barkers Island. Skyline drive is always a lovely drive at twilight, as is taking Scenic 61.
Welcome back- I’ve missed your videos! I used to live near Lake St Clair in Michigan. My father, in the winter time, would drive us in the car onto the lake. Quite exciting.
Thanks sandi! took a brief break but the videos are back!! and I got full upload schedule! I havent quite made it over to Michigan yet! But I've always wanted to Visit Detroit Rock CIty!!!! thanks for watching!
We live in tower mn and we picnic near the park in the summer we cross that bridge a lot and in the winter there is Bentley park and a little Blue house themat has the most amazing penguin display for 7:29 the holidays
When we took the Glensheen tour there was no mention of the murders. later we found a book at a local gift shop and learned about the dark history. Thank you for the history of the lift bridge, we check the canal cam often and enjoy seeing the bridge in action.
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123it’s been a very long time since I was a guest on that tour. They were allowed to mention the murder back then, but absolutely could not tell you what room it happened in.
My son in law went to Ely Friday after Thanksgiving to meet up with some buddies to go winter camping in the boundary waters……I think he’s nuts 🥶, I sure hope he makes it home today !
Both of my grandparents from my mom side was from Duluth. My Grandma used to have an aunt who would carry a winter jacket in her car all year long. My grandma said one-fourth of july she where a winter jacket well watching fireworks
I am also from Minnesota, White Bear Lake for the win. In 2015 I was driving a hot shot van all over the country. I found myself at brown university making a delivery. I don't remember what of. poking around, one of the professors had a large picture of the lift bridge in his office, which I thought was really cool. You would expect to find the Eads bridge or the George Washington Bridge, but to see the Duluth Lift Bridge is something else entirely
Ahhh! White bear lake! I know that area a little bit....My friends parents own a little antique store there. appreciate you sharing your story and checking out the video!
You need to revisit Minnesota’s North Shore and film from Duluth to Grand Portage. Lots of scenic stuff that’s quite amazing since the road hugs the shoreline.
Oh i certainly plan on it! I'm from MN originally and whenever I go back i like to make videos there.....I already have some content planned for late spring when I go back....thanks for the suggestion!!!! 🙏
First time watching, great stuff dude! I was raised in Southern Mn and lived a few years in Duluth. I absolutely love that city. That said both winters can be bad... Ive had -55f down south but also lived through polar vortex up north... both are incredibly brutal in there own ways.
The bridge's height was increased at one time, and back in the 80's the technology which lifts the bridge was modernized and simplified. You can find old videos on TH-cam with the old technology which had several more cables and pullies. I believe they kept one of those old pullies and, on the park point side of the bridge, have out on the lawn for people to see.
You need to do this also, Go up North Shore to the Kadunce River outlet. Park. (I guess this only works if it is not a very rainy season) If the water is low, walk up the river to the first falls, yep, the first one, You can take the path on the right for a while and then get into water later, Climb up the falls or go left up and around it and stay in the water to walk another 20 - 30 minutes up river to the 2nd falls and prepare to be blown away! Getting some drone footage there should make your whole trip, you're in like a room walled 100 feet on each side with water pouring into it! Amazing scene!
Go over the lift bridge, go all the way to the end of Park Point and you come to the Airport. Park. Go to the left of the Airport and you will see a small fence and a trail guide map. You can now hike a beautiful trail down the point and walk the beach back. Stay on trail, Poison Ivy in area. Not many know about this secret trail, but it isn't so secret now, is it? Enjoy...
I loved your video. I'm a watcher of the local webcams and have fallen in love with Duluth and the area. I live in NM but one day hope to visit. Until then,I'll check out your other videos.
@@russg9371…definitely NOT a dump! Lived their 2 yrs…during which winters were much warmer than the brutal weather of Mpls/St.Paul…worst winters of my 69yrs!😊
When he was 2 yrs old, one of my grandsons got to help a maintenance worker paint the base of the southwest tower while we waited for his mom & grandad to finish their "Northshore Inline Marathon".
Crossing from downtown Duluth, and across the Lift Bridge: there is a hotel just on the right side there. Can’t remember the name. If you stay there, and ask, they will call you overnight whenever a ship goes through the bridge so you can see the Lift Bridge going up and down. If you don’t want to be woken, they won’t call you. It’s a service of the hotel. The hotel is pretty nice, has a lot of outdoor chairs and I think a few BBQ’s. Also, access under the bridge to the beach on the other side, towards the lake.
Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🏻 It is absolutely stunning. I had no idea exactly how beautiful Lake Superior is. Now I want to go to Minnesota. Just in the summer. I know I couldn't handle the cold 🥶😂
In the mid 50s as a kid,we went threw Duluth,then ,we must have went a crossed it a few more times,threw the years,because I have been around lake superior, went up fishing 3 other times,one time we went up in a big camper,another time we took my freinds 1968 roadrunner,pulling a boat trailer with 2 boats,___
We stop at "the head" every year we go up to the gunflint trail for holiday. Not enough room for 2 pickups to pass unless you get creative. It is a beautiful trip up to the Canadian border but alas we have been priced out of making the trip as motels and lodging all along the shore is ridiculous since covid. I hope when I have a few marbles left in my head, some of the memories of the north shore are among them.
I remember 2 years ago when I was up there I was at an ice cream shop and saw the blue angels fly over the bridge and it was really cool especially since I didn’t know that they would do that
The lift bridge has a spot in my heart, as it was there, back in 1941, that my father rescued my mother from being drowned! They and another couple had driven up to Duluth from St. Pul, and decided (in spite of the weather ) to walk out to the end of the canal leading to the lift bridge. Huge waves were breaking against the ends of the concrete wings on either side of the canal, rolling under the lift bridge and into the harbor. The waves were dumping water over the raised sides of the canal and the relatively protected channel in the middle of each wing was awash with water from the waves, so they walked on the raised sides where passing waves were only ankle deep. Then a larger wave than average came in, and swept my mother off the wall and into the navigation channel. As she often said, she could swim like an anvil, and was about to go under, when the next wave lifted her up even with the top of the wall - my father, who was very strong - caught hold of her hand and dragged her back onto the wall! Soaked with the frigid lake water, they struggled back to shore and up onto the street at the base of the bridge. Talk about a memorable date! The were married a year later, during WW2. when he came home on leave from the Navy
Absolutely an amazing story!! I had a good time reading this one! swimming is one thing, but for how cold that lake water is, I feel like it could almost paralyze a person pretty quick. You'd definitely have to be a physically and mentally strong swimmer to make it in that lake. Thank you So incredibly much for sharing your story 🙏
I bet she hasn’t walked on that wall since !
I was born in Duluth and one of my favorite views is driving Skyline Drive, especially at night. Beautiful views year round.
awesome! thanks for sharing!
I was born and raised in Duluth. My Dad and his brother built a motel up highway 61 one mile from the pumping station that took lake water for the area. Life was wonderful for a young boy. I played every day down on the lake shore and in the woods behind our motel, which by the way is called "Lake Breeze Motel" and it is still there. My father and uncle sold it around 1962 or so.
Thank you for a very well done video.
Hey no problem!!! thank you for sharing your backstory. I just googled the lake breeze motel, and sure enough I did drive by it when I was up there.....hoping to get back up there in late spring and do another video, and next time I drive by that motel Ill be think of this comment! thanks again for sharing your story and checking out the video!
Lived in Duluth for 2 years in the mid 70's, and still really love that town. Can't count the number of times I crossed that lift bridge. In Winter, with high winds and driving snow, it was a bit of an adventure in the car I owned at the time.
Thank you for sharing 🙏
We have visited Duluth several times a years for nearly 50 years. Most Minnesotans love the city and are very protective of it. We always visit the beach at Park Point and walk it, summer and winter when it is dramatic with ice formations.
One summer evening, when our kids were 6 & 9, we were just walking along the canal after dinner. It was very foggy and visibility was limited. Someone was busking, playing beautiful violin music. We just sat on the huge shoreline rocks and took in the sound of waves and the violin.
how neat! thanks for sharing!
Minnesota Point is locally dubbed "park point". I lived in the apartments out there for three years. It was always hilarious when tourists would freak out when I'd get stuck at the bridge and get out of my car and walk out to the peer. They thought they would get stuck forever probably as if I wasn't coming back. Usually they would figure out how logistics work and get out to walk over to the peer also 😂
lol
My wife and I live in the Mankato area. We are both UMD grads. My wife got her MRS degree there and we have been married for 45 years. We lived in the Duluth area for the first 24 years of our lives. This video was well done and we enjoyed it. Thanks
MANKATO!!!! thats my old stomping grounds! Went to college there for a couple years.....my favorite pizza place in mankato, still to this day is Pagliais pizza....man i miss it!!! Thank you for sharing, and I appreciate you checking out the video!
I fell in love with Duluth the first time I was there. The wife and I want to retire to Minnesota Point. Also, being a SCUBA diver there are lots of wrecks to dive along the Minnesota shoreline!
that'd be one awesome place to retire! and yes!!! the countless shipwrecks you could explore, god only knows what else is in that lake....thanks for checking out the video!
Nicely done! My wife was born and raised in Duluth and was and East Greyhound. We were married at St Johns Church just north of UMD. My father-in-law would trout fish on the Lester River nearly every weekend. Luvd Canal Park and watching the boats. Her uncle was an engineer on one of the ore boats. Now from sunny Fort Myers FL... enjoy your next trip further north!
Hey thank you so much for sharing your story! I enjoyed reading it....Already planning that next trip up here!
The North Shore is simply stunning! Waterfalls, a lighthouse ,a highway that has views that are as nice as any route in this great country of ours. If you do make this trip make sure to stop by Bettys Pie(love how you snuck in a glimpse of it in your drone footage)
Yea!!! Next time for sure!!! I even took a couple photos of the place on my drone as well...have been meaning to stop there for a long time!
Next time you're up there, check out the train museum. We go there every year for their Halloween train ride.
Also, a lot of people don't realize how long of a drive hwy 61 is. It's about the same amount of time from Duluth to Grand Portage as it is from Duluth to Bloomington.
ohhhh!!! I did not know that about highway 61...and yea, I'll definitely look into that train museum, Thanks for sharing! 🙏
i’m watching this from the big hospital in the duluth skyline! looking at the bridge as we speak
Lol, that is awesome!!
Blessings for a quick recovery. From across the other bridge. Lol
I pray for healing or a good shift !
My 15 year old son and I took a road trip to Duluth this past summer. We live in Northwest Minnesota. It was probably the most memorable trip of our lives so far. We spent the weekend there. We saw the harbor and lift bridge and went out to the point. We toured the William A Irvin, the Glensheen Mansion, the Enger Tower Park, North Shore drive, and Superior, Wisconsin. I would love to go back again. We also saw the Queen of the Lakes Paul R Tragurtha (largest ship on the lakes), the James R Barker (awesome horn), as well as several other ships come in and out of the harbor. We also toured the train museum and took the scenic rail.
That sounds like an amazing trip! Duluth is such a cool place.
I just took my 9 year old son and his friend up to Duluth last weekend. We go for a week at least once a year and usually a couple long weekends. Love it up on the North Shore!
heck yea!
In the 70s I was attending UMD. Coming from a farm in southern Minnesota, Lake Superior fascinated me. I loved to sit in the parking lot of canal park during storms and watch the waves crash over the rocks protecting the park area. The water was about 6” deep where I was parked that day. I heard the bell on the lift bridge start to ring so I backed around to see who was leaving. The Edmond Fitzgerald came out on her last voyage. Three days later, the news reported that the Edmond Fitzgerald was missing. Her last contact was near Whitefish Bay. Such a sad loss. Lake Superior, as beautiful as it is, can be very deadly
Wow, that cool and sad at the same time !
whoa!! that fact that you got to see the Edmund fitzgerald head out into the lake before she sank, thats something!.....thank you for sharing! watching the crash over the rocks is always fun to watch up there!
Wow. What a memory for you to hold!
Great video! I'm from the LP of Michigan and my Duluth story is from 8 years ago. We had a family camping trip in the UP and were staying in the Porcupine Mountains and decided on a daytrip to Duluth, spur of the moment. Without any real plans we ended up driving through town up to Skyline Parkway and pulled off into Chester Creek Park just to get our bearings and figure out what we wanted to do. Turned out that the park was awesome and our kids played there for a bit as we explored. We ended up having a great lunch in the area, went to the Great Lakes Aquarium and walked the city and Lakewalk. Was a top 10 family day period for us and we still talk about our youngest playing tag with the otters and getting to see the bridge and ships coming and going. I wish Duluth was closer because we'd love to get back there for longer than the 6ish amazing hours we had.
Awesome! I enjoyed reading this story! Duluth is one of those places that once you go once, you have to keep on coming back! thank you for sharing! appreciate you checking out the video!
I love the Duluth area with so much to see and do, so much history to explore and nature to experience.
I have driven across the aerial lift bridge a couple times just because I needed to. I still remember the sounds of tires 🛞 running across that steel grating of a bridge surface.
I agree!!! I've been there dozens of times since I was a kid, and still, I feel like I've only done a handful of things up there! Appreciate you checking out the video!
I have relatives in Duluth and have visited there probably 30 times or more in my life. I have always loved that city, the hills and Superior as well. Lake Superior has a certain mystique to it, a feeling you don't get anywhere else, at least to me. Great video!
Thank you! and I agree about the mystique to lake superior. if that lake could talk I bet it could tell us some amazing stories, other than shipwrecks, god only knows whats at the bottom of that lake and the other mysteries it holds. Thank you for checking out the video! 🙏
Had visited Duluth for a Railroad Passenger Car Convention (RPCA)in January.
Temperature -18F.
The Railroad museum is well worth going too and we did get to go see the Mansion. The industrial infrastructure is really neat, especially the ore docks. Will be back someday ✨.
awesome!
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RPCA convention is in Pueblo, Colorado this year.
The most notable memory I have is being there when Vlieborg struck the canal wall in 2005. I wasn't quite in line of sight when it happened but we could tell it didn't look like it was moving quite right, and then we saw smoke start billowing as they put it in full reverse and suddenly come to stop. When we got to the canal we saw a chunk taken out of the wall and one of the light laying shattered on the ground. I don't get there more than once or twice a year so it's still wild to me that I just happened to be there the one time a ship struck the pier.
thank you for sharing!
Every summer since i was a kid my grandma took me and my family up to stay in duluth near the lift bridge. Loved watching the freighters coming into port, 1000 feet of steel hidden behind fog. My most notable memory was going up to Gooseberry Falls, slipping on the wet granite and giving my family directions back to the car while concussed.(I also almost fell off of that cliff you drove under at 11:11)
Amazing!!! Loved reading this post and I know exactly what you mean!! gooseberry falls is absolutely gorgeous, but I can remember as a kid playing on the rocks and taking a few falls.....those rocks can be pretty slick! really wish I could have captures a freight coming through the bridge, but it was a very last minute trip. In the late spring Im hoping I can do another trip back to MN and making a video driving from duluth to grand marais, and of course stop at gooseberry and many other places along the way!
thank you again for sharing the story about your grandmother and thank you for checking out the video! 🙏
@@jessiesdroneadventures7464 keep the content coming, love the drone shots, especially that parallel flyover of minnesota point
I used to visit Duluth frequently back in the mid 90's when my buddy Don worked at WDIO tv station. My most memorable visit was in 1994 when I caught the annual Hawk Ridge raptor migration. That year, the weather had prevented the departure of the birds as it was cold and rainy and they accumulated at Hawk Ridge. The birds can't fly over the water. They need warm air thermals to successfully fly around the water of Lake Superior. The Saturday I was there, the weather cleared up and I was lucky enough to witness wave after wave of birds taking flight, spiraling upward, riding the wind, by the thousands, over a quarter million according to some Audubon members estimates. The birds were so thick, they looked like high clouds from a distance, coming into clear view as they drifted by. One of the most spectacular things I have ever seen.
That would have been a cool sight !!!
Interesting!.....thank you for sharing!
My first trip to the Duluth and the North Shore was when I was about 6. I've been there over a dozen times since, including my honeymoon. Love hearing the master salute between a ship and the bridge when a ship enters or leaves the harbor.
thanks for sharing!
My grandpa was an electrician and worked on the lift bridge. When I was in elementary school I got to go up in the house on the bridge with him and hit the button to sound a horn on the bridge.
awesome! thanks for sharing!
I live in Superior, just across the bay from Duluth. The aerial lift bridge still fascinates me every time I see it or go under it with my boat. Thanks for a great video.
Hey no problemo! glad you enjoyed the video!
I live northwest of Duluth, it’s a favorite place to go ! No matter how many times I visit there is always more to see and do !! It’s really sad to see it turning into a dump, drugs, crime and trafficking is horrendous there :(
thats sad to hear
? Really? That has not been our experience. We find the city busy and beautiful as always in Oct 2024 when we last visited.
We visit Duluth and the North Shore every year, sometimes twice! The Canal Park area can get really busy from Thursday - Sunday in the summer. Worth it.
I agree, busy but well worth it! thanks for checking out the video!
grew up in Gary, MN. first concert was Petra @ the DECC. fireworks over the harbor was my youth. never thought anything of it till I relocated inland, to the prairie. now it is a treat to see Gitchi.
You clearly have a photographer's eye. I doubt I am the only one who enjoys both the content of your videos, and how well you craft your videos.
In addition, I also appreciate your matter-of-fact style of narration. Yes, you include an occasional bit of home-spun humor. But it's not clownish.
Kudos all around. Thank you for producing such fine work. Cheers.
Hey thank you so much! I try my best to make them educational without sounding like a boring college professor, hence the comedic touch....Thank you for those kind words and also for tuning into the video 🙏
The North Shore is truly one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
Amen to that!!!
Good thing to see is not that going in the summer or fall but it’s actually going in the winter to see Bentleyville “duluths light display on the canal” and watching the coast guard break the ice on the lake it’s a sight that you’ll never forget
The channel “vibe with Mike” just put up a video with the largest ship on the lake leaving the canal and Bentlyville appearing in the background, then the fireworks!
We spent the first night of our honeymoon in Duluth on the way up to my Aunt and Uncle’s cabin on Rainy Lake… 44 years ago. 😊
awww, how cool!
Whenever I'm up in Duluth i make it a point to drive out on MN Point all the way to the end and back. It's truly a gem amongst all the attractions in the area.
Me too !
Heck yea! next time Im there I want to bike it!
I was born and raised in Duluth, 40 years now. I worked in Canal Park for 12 years... Watching the lake and the boats come in never gets old. And the history is even better.
Hey thanks for sharing...I once tried swimming in that lake in june....was still freaking cold lol
My family did yearly trips to Duluth every summer in the 80s. We’d stay at a motel in Canal Park and little kid me had to run down every time a ship came in or out. I met a former crewman from the Edmund Fitzgerald up there. I still go up as much as I can as an adult. My girlfriend had never seen a lake freighter in person before so I had to change that.
oh, how neat! thank you for sharing!
Had a blast feeding a tame chipmunk on Palisade Head!
oh neat!
The Radisson and the rotating restaurant. Loved that place. Cliff and Shore Resort too up the way. It's gone now.
Sturgis is home but loved Duluth and the ships. Houston doesn't have this... straight ass cargo ports and ya can't get close.
thank you for sharing!
I been up to Duluth a couple of times, been across the lift bridge, which is very neat. I went through the Robert Irvine ship. We also went up in the Enger Park Tower. I want to check out Palasade Head next trip. I am also looking at the dji mini pro 4. It took some amazing video. Thanks for the great video.
Hey no problem! glad you enjoyed it. You won't be disappointed if you get the DJI mini 4 pro....its worth it!
You didn’t cover all the intrigue between MN and WI in the creation of the canal.
TL;DR:
Duluth pulled all nighters getting the canal dug before the WI contingent could reach Washington DC and force the stop of the canal which would have given all the shipping revenue to WI rather than MN.
Luckily for Duluth/MN, it took a long time to travel back in those days and Duluth was able to complete the canal before the WI crew reached DC and so the docks and revenue went to Duluth/MN rather than Superior/WI.
Several years ago, my wife and I stayed a couple of nights at the hotel at the east end of the lift bridge and had a great time in the revitalized area near the bridge. Just stumbled onto your channel and the CA gibe instantly earned my sub!
That's hilarious! Their is an earlier post saying she won't watch because of the Cali jabs 😂
@@Squince01 Yeah, I saw that and I HAD to reply to her comment! 😄
lol awesome!!! I couldnt resist that california jab!
some people just dont have a sense of humor I suppose haha
I grew up in Duluth. Back in the day you could ride the bridge up and down. You would be walking across the bridge and a horn would blow and the guy in the house would come on the loud speaker and say “ stop where you are the bridge is about to move”. Also skyline drive has a ;great view
My favorite view as a child was coming in on hi way 2 from Proctor at night and the whole town suddenly appeared all lit up
Love the North shore. As you stated, Congdon mansion would be cool, I haven't been there since the '80s. Gooseberry and Split Rock Light House may also be interesting. Love your work, keep it up!
YES!!!! omg, all those place me and my family would visit when were kids! Im already planning another trip out there in the late spring, and I will most definitely be stopping in at ALL of those places! the congdon Mansion always gave me the creeps, but thats why I must go back!!! Thank you for checking out the video 🙏
Duluth is a beautiful place. The sunrises and sunsets are breathtaking. This has also turned into a huge passion as since late 2019, I’ve been recreating Duluth as a virtual game.
that sounds awesome!
One of my favorite things to watch are the surfers in the colder months as the waves are much larger.
ah! didnt know that!
You absolutely have to go to rustic Inn for their pie.. it's not too far south of gooseberry Falls.. try the North shore Berry crunch or the caramel apple pecan.
do not go to Betty's pies... They are overrated.
You also need to stop at Russ Kendall's fish market. It's on Highway 61 on the left hand side if you're going north, but I can't remember what little town it's in.
I also noticed you flew across flood Bay which is one of my favorite spots.. we usually stop in two harbors and pick up sandwiches at Subway and sit outside on the rocks at flood Bay before going on to gooseberry Falls.
I will keep that in mind!
It was in 1966 my church group stop and took lunch break on our way to Ely for our camping trip.Looking at the city was so different then North Iowa
Been to Duluth and crossed the bridge. It was in June and at night it was down to freezing. And very warm during the day when I stayed over in superior WI. Lived in Minneapolis at that time. The steep roads in Duluth were as amazing how they must have drove them during the winter. I was hoping you showed some of those.
I wish I could have....but I was pressed on time.....when I head back out that way in the spring, mark my words, I WILL GET SOME VEIWS OF THOSE STREETS, I've wondered the same thing haha, thanks for watching!
The view from the Duluth Hwy Restop is amazing at Sunrise. The beach along the sandbar is dog friendly.
I grew up in northwest Minnesota. When I moved to Mankato 25 years ago in college I told my mom I was living in the Minnesota Tropics. 2 inch rain storm in January. Motorcycles in February.
Mankato!!! I went to college there as well!!
Hey Jessie ! Born in St. Paul ('55) Raised in White Bear Lake, escaped to Arizona in '84. My dad was a big RV'er, but we didn't head up there a lot. He preferred the central lake country, since my grandparents were in Litchfield. We spent a ton of weekends at this park on the St. Croix across from Osceola. I always scoff at them calling the reservoirs "lakes" down here. I've lived it folks, get real. Later !... Jim in the desert.
St. Paul!!!! i know that city pretty well, and my friends parents have an antique store in white bear lake! small world.....last time I was in osceola I shotgunned a beer and cascade falls!.....good times! kind of makes me want to do more minnesota based content haha. and I know what you mean about the reservoirs, when I first moved to AZ and people told me there were lakes down here, I was pretty excited, then I was slightly disappointed when I found out they were reservoirs, still fun to visit though! thanks for checking out the video!
I live in north central Minnesota, 7 miles from Itasca State Park, I couldn’t imagine moving to the desert after living among all these trees and lakes !
You should try to go all the way up 61 to the Canadian border. There are beautiful places seemingly every mile all the way up👍🏼 If you liked Palisade you’ll REALLY like Temperance River (and many other spots)
that's the plan next time I go back! thanks for checking out the video!
You could do a lot of videos from the north shore. Grand Marais is a very scenic town too.
yes! I got a lot more planned!
The Duluth canal was hurriedly built to stop Superior from being the only port which was before congress at the time as I remember it. Most people don't realize there is a natural channel in Superior. I remember hearing about the murders in Glensheen and I was in the north when the retrial was ordered. During the same period of time Ashland Wi was a large port as well. Large enough that Douglas MacArthur went there to get transport to West Point.
Great video. Learned many things I didn’t know.
Thank you, glad it was helpful!
Fun fact: When they originally dredged the Duluth harbor in the early 1900s, the millions of cubic yards of sand spoils were dumped offshore of the point. This sand washed ashore over the decades and built huge dunes on the point. Much of the sand blew back into the harbor, decade by decade. Much was hauled away. Blinding sandstorms were common. In the meantime, the building of the piers, dredging of the harbor, hard surface runoff from development, dam construction, and armoring of feeder rivers has cut off the longshore drift sand supply to the MN Point. Now they 'nourish' the beach with sand. Like most sand bars, it is always relocating and countering changes made.
thank you for sharing!
Going to put Duluth on my bucket list !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome! you wont regret it!
It’s definitely worth it !!!
Make sure you drive the north shore all the way up and give yourself time to make stops along the way. Camp or book hotels but make reservations because it fills up in summer and fall !!!
Lutzen ski resort has amazing gondola rides with beautiful views !
The stone structure in the water at 50 seconds in! Locals call it the ice house. I've swam out there and jumped off with my family before. Late July, early August, the water might get up to 63°
thanks for sharing 👍
Spent half my sailing career in engine rooms of ships sailing the Great Lakes. Been under the lift bridge and waving to the tourists many, many times.
This was a great video! I love hearing the history of places. I've been through Minnesota only in the way to and from Ohio long ago.
I've wanted to do a video here for a long time, since I was back in Minnesota for a few days, I knew I had to make it happen!
Highway 61 from Duluth to thunder bay is an amazing place.
heck yea it is!!!
Yes, do the trip with all the little stops !
I definitely will!
Great video,was planning a trek towards Duluth from Seattle visit the Railroad sites there along with the lake sites,thanks for bringing us along on your adventures
hey no problem! thank you for checking out the video!
I just moved to Duluth for college, enjoying it so far. Fun to see all the places I’m now familiar with in your video.
awesome! I had a lot of family and friends go to school there as well....they absolutely loved it!!! not so much the school, but duluth itself haha
I lived in Duluth back in 2011. Video brings back a lot of memories.
awesome!
love the video. was born in duluth. love visiting whenever i get the chance to. so many great restaurants and breweries to visit.
glad to hear! Duluth is the best!....thanks for checking out the video!
I was born and raised in Minnesota and now my wife and I live in northern Wisconsin about an hour and a half from Duluth. We’re in Duluth at least a couple times a month. If not more. Unfortunately, if we need anything from a store like Home Depot, Menards or Fleet Farm. Or my favorite store, Hobbytown! Duluth is the closest place to go.
I completely agree that Duluth is a pretty and beautiful area. But having said that… I have ZERO idea why people choose to live there. It seems to me that no matter where you’re going in Duluth… You’re always going uphill. And it’s an extremely steep uphill battle.
Anyway, rant over! I promise. My favorite memory of Duluth is Glensheen Mansion. My wife and I were married there back in 2016 with a small group of family and friends and while I’ve definitely made a lot of dumb decisions and done a lot of stupid things in my life. Marrying that woman is, has been and will always be one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life!
Loved reading this story! and I completely agree about always going uphill, i always wondered how people do it in the winter. Glensheen mansion is one of my favorite places to visit in duluth! never gets old. Congrats on the marriage!
Loved the video. I travel to Duluth from the cities at least once a year (usually for a men's league hockey tournament in October). For the last 7 years, we have stayed in Park Point at different rental homes. One of my favorite was right next to the lift bridge on the east side. Got to see the lift in action many times that weekend. Spent lots of time walking over the bridge to get back and forth from the Toga' :)
awesome!! glad you enjoyed it!
Interesting video! I’ve been watching Vibe With Mike. He films the lakers going through the canal there. Probably why this came up in my feed. I’m glad it did as it provides good history of the bridge itself. Thanks!
hey no problemo! appreciate you checking out the video!
I watch Mike too !!!
Love running into a Boat Friend on another channel 😀⚓️@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123
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I was there earlier this year for the Grandmas Marathon. I fell in love with it. And now I watch all the videos of the cargo ships going under the lift bridge. We didn’t know about the Skyline Drive or we would have done that .😢
thank you for sharing!
Glensheen has amazing grounds, early summer is a great time to go...I would avoid paying the extra for the "attic tour" on the house tour, you walk up some steps, see some boxes of old magazines and newspapers and rolled up rugs, then back down the stairs...was like a extra 30 bucks almost 20 yrs ago. While looking at mansions, in Superior is the Fairlawn mansion, which has a intersting(non murder) history and a feud that culminated in Barkers Island. Skyline drive is always a lovely drive at twilight, as is taking Scenic 61.
thank you for sharing 🙏
Welcome back- I’ve missed your videos! I used to live near Lake St Clair in Michigan. My father, in the winter time, would drive us in the car onto the lake. Quite exciting.
Thanks sandi! took a brief break but the videos are back!! and I got full upload schedule! I havent quite made it over to Michigan yet! But I've always wanted to Visit Detroit Rock CIty!!!! thanks for watching!
We live in tower mn and we picnic near the park in the summer we cross that bridge a lot and in the winter there is Bentley park and a little Blue house themat has the most amazing penguin display for 7:29 the holidays
nice!
I was in Duluth last February, and we say a kayaker on the lake, as there was no snow or ice!
that sounds awesome! always wanted to kayak there!
Born and raised in Northern Minnesota only about 65 miles away from Duluth
Neat video. Thanks!❤
hey no problem! glad you liked it! been wanting to do a video here for the longest time! appreciate you checking out the video!
Thanks, Jessie for an outstanding video as always. Appreciate all your hard work 😊
Heybthanks Travellinman1111 glad you enjoyed the video!!! 👍 always wanted to do a story on duluth/lake superior!! Thanks again!
When we took the Glensheen tour there was no mention of the murders. later we found a book at a local gift shop and learned about the dark history. Thank you for the history of the lift bridge, we check the canal cam often and enjoy seeing the bridge in action.
hey no problem! appreciate you checking out the video!
They aren’t allowed to speak about the murder.
@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123it’s been a very long time since I was a guest on that tour. They were allowed to mention the murder back then, but absolutely could not tell you what room it happened in.
Very cool my son goes to college in Ely, MN and I will have to check out Palisade Head in the spring!
My son in law went to Ely Friday after Thanksgiving to meet up with some buddies to go winter camping in the boundary waters……I think he’s nuts 🥶, I sure hope he makes it home today !
Both of my grandparents from my mom side was from Duluth. My Grandma used to have an aunt who would carry a winter jacket in her car all year long. My grandma said one-fourth of july she where a winter jacket well watching fireworks
oh wow!!
I am also from Minnesota, White Bear Lake for the win. In 2015 I was driving a hot shot van all over the country. I found myself at brown university making a delivery. I don't remember what of. poking around, one of the professors had a large picture of the lift bridge in his office, which I thought was really cool. You would expect to find the Eads bridge or the George Washington Bridge, but to see the Duluth Lift Bridge is something else entirely
Ahhh! White bear lake! I know that area a little bit....My friends parents own a little antique store there. appreciate you sharing your story and checking out the video!
You need to revisit Minnesota’s North Shore and film from Duluth to Grand Portage. Lots of scenic stuff that’s quite amazing since the road hugs the shoreline.
Oh i certainly plan on it! I'm from MN originally and whenever I go back i like to make videos there.....I already have some content planned for late spring when I go back....thanks for the suggestion!!!! 🙏
First time watching, great stuff dude! I was raised in Southern Mn and lived a few years in Duluth. I absolutely love that city.
That said both winters can be bad... Ive had -55f down south but also lived through polar vortex up north... both are incredibly brutal in there own ways.
ahhhh!! I'm from southern MN....Mankato area to be specific! glad you enjoyed the video!
Good one.
Now I know.
Thanks
Your welcome! appreciate you checking out the video!
The bridge's height was increased at one time, and back in the 80's the technology which lifts the bridge was modernized and simplified. You can find old videos on TH-cam with the old technology which had several more cables and pullies. I believe they kept one of those old pullies and, on the park point side of the bridge, have out on the lawn for people to see.
Thanks for sharing 👍
You need to do this also, Go up North Shore to the Kadunce River outlet. Park. (I guess this only works if it is not a very rainy season) If the water is low, walk up the river to the first falls, yep, the first one, You can take the path on the right for a while and then get into water later, Climb up the falls or go left up and around it and stay in the water to walk another 20 - 30 minutes up river to the 2nd falls and prepare to be blown away! Getting some drone footage there should make your whole trip, you're in like a room walled 100 feet on each side with water pouring into it! Amazing scene!
that sounds like a scene out of a movie! Ill keep that in mind for my next trip up here! thank you for checking out the video!
Go over the lift bridge, go all the way to the end of Park Point and you come to the Airport. Park. Go to the left of the Airport and you will see a small fence and a trail guide map. You can now hike a beautiful trail down the point and walk the beach back. Stay on trail, Poison Ivy in area. Not many know about this secret trail, but it isn't so secret now, is it? Enjoy...
There is a sea plane launch site down at the end of the point where you can watch them land and take off.
There is a shipwreck not far from the Duluth entry. We could see its shape with sonar. I think my dad referred to it as "the Wilson".
interesting!
I loved your video. I'm a watcher of the local webcams and have fallen in love with Duluth and the area. I live in NM but one day hope to visit. Until then,I'll check out your other videos.
hey thank you! and yes! you must visit duluth!!! so much to see!
Love the great lakes region. Wonderful video
Thank you very much! glad you enjoyed it!
A lot of talk about Duluth and not much about the click bait title
Average YT content
Seems like something the PR team came up with. Duluth is a dump
@@russg9371…definitely NOT a dump! Lived their 2 yrs…during which winters were much warmer than the brutal weather of Mpls/St.Paul…worst winters of my 69yrs!😊
@gregginter5867 born and raised. It's a dump
Haha, I live in Arizona
When he was 2 yrs old, one of my grandsons got to help a maintenance worker paint the base of the southwest tower while we waited for his mom & grandad to finish their "Northshore Inline Marathon".
thanks for sharing!
Crossing from downtown Duluth, and across the Lift Bridge: there is a hotel just on the right side there. Can’t remember the name.
If you stay there, and ask, they will call you overnight whenever a ship goes through the bridge so you can see the Lift Bridge going up and down. If you don’t want to be woken, they won’t call you. It’s a service of the hotel. The hotel is pretty nice, has a lot of outdoor chairs and I think a few BBQ’s.
Also, access under the bridge to the beach on the other side, towards the lake.
oh wow! as many times as I've been to duluth, I never knew that....I'll keep that in mind for the next trip there!
Thank you thank you thank you 🙏🏻 It is absolutely stunning. I had no idea exactly how beautiful Lake Superior is. Now I want to go to Minnesota. Just in the summer. I know I couldn't handle the cold 🥶😂
hey no problem! lake superior is gorgeous! but yea, avoid the winter up there, it sucks lol
Moved up from Indy in 2012- Love it!
Heck! Duluth is my old stomping grounds!
Jumping off the lighthouse walkway is super fun
lol
In the mid 50s as a kid,we went threw Duluth,then ,we must have went a crossed it a few more times,threw the years,because I have been around lake superior, went up fishing 3 other times,one time we went up in a big camper,another time we took my freinds 1968 roadrunner,pulling a boat trailer with 2 boats,___
thanks for sharing!
Great video! Absolutly love the north shore. Going to the Boundry Waters in January for some fun! You got a new sub!😉
Hey thank you!!!! appreciate you checking out the video!! have fun up at the boundary waters!
We stop at "the head" every year we go up to the gunflint trail for holiday. Not enough room for 2 pickups to pass unless you get creative. It is a beautiful trip up to the Canadian border but alas we have been priced out of making the trip as motels and lodging all along the shore is ridiculous since covid. I hope when I have a few marbles left in my head, some of the memories of the north shore are among them.
Thank you for sharing!
About the only way to afford it now is dry camp in a camper staying at rest stops or parking lots. I’ve done it car camping.
I remember 2 years ago when I was up there I was at an ice cream shop and saw the blue angels fly over the bridge and it was really cool especially since I didn’t know that they would do that
cool cool!