Half Day Whitefish Point Tour

Our trip north takes us on a colorful route to the Hiawatha National Forest, through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Next it's on to Whitefish Point, where a windswept lighthouse guards the entrance to Lake Superior from Whitefish Bay. Tour the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum, the lightkeepers quarters, check out the large observation deck and see the big lake called "Gitchigumee" by the Chippewa hundreds of years ago. Inspect the Shipwreck Museum, where hundreds of artifacts have been retrieved from the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes, " Superior's Shipwreck Coast. The museum has relics from the region's first shipwrecks to the haunting ship's bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank just 16 miles away in the November gale of 1975. Because I perform as Gordon Lightfoot, live in Concert, I have formed friendships with surviving family members of the men who died on the Fitzgerald. I perform at the Fitzgerald's annual bell ringing ceremony and sing Lightfoot's iconic song.

Whitefish Point is about an hour's scenic drive from the Mackinac Bridge. Many times this tour is combined with the Sault Ste. Marie and Soo Locks Tour for one great reason - lunch! There are plenty of choices in Sault Ste. Marie, but if you choose to go straight to Whitefish Point, we might luck out and find a little diner open in Paradise. We'd be wise to eat first in St. Ignace or bring food along from there. At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum* you'll be taken by the haunting spell of the many shipwrecks here, especially the bell from the Edmund Fitzgerald. I'll enhance the experience in a very special way. I have performed as Gordon Lightfoot for a decade at the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum's annual bell-tolling ceremony for the lost souls of the Edmund Fitzgerald. My interaction with surviving family members of the lost crewmen, and Lightfoot himself, generate many first-hand accounts of the tragedy and how his iconic song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was written. *Separate admission required