Today’s photos come to us from Edward Korpi and is a follow-up from his wife, Laurie Bashaw’s photos that we shared this past Friday, June 19th, when they visited the “Log Slide” at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Ed said what a beautiful day it was to hike to the Log Slide and check out the historic spot where logs were slid down the dunes to be shipped across Lake Superior by boats and then processed into lumber. Edward snapped some photos of the signage there at the location, along with some of the historic logging equipment used, that is there on display.

To read the signage titled: “What is the Log Slide?”, in the bottom photo, click here: Log Slide signage

If you’re heading that way to check this out, here are a few particulars that will help you get there:
The Log Slide area is located approximately 7 miles west of Grand Marais on Alger County Road H-58, and then 1.0 mile north on Log Slide Road to the parking lot. A short walk from the parking lot past historic logging equipment leads to the Log Slide area on top of the dunes. Pets are not allowed on the trail to Log Slide or in the nearby dunes.

Today’s video from EFilms2484 gives you a good perspective of the Log Slide in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

Good morning all! The Log Slide at Pictured Rocks
is such a gorgeous area, with incredible Superior
views to the east and west! Last time I visited there
were a handful of people that had climbed down,
hopefully they made it back UP okay. Such a steep
dune! Can only imagine the chaotic scene when they
were hurling hundreds of giant White Pine logs down
the wooden chute, causing enough friction to set the
whole thing ablaze. Still makes me feel a little sad
driving through the Kingston Plains stump graveyard,
trying to picture what it must have been like before
the clear cutting.

Hi
These bring back memories. My mom and dad and I visited
the Log Slide on a trip to Pictured Rocks. We were all
old enough to have no desire to go down & have to climb
back!

These are great! When we were at the logroll, we
asked some who had walked back up how long it took.
And they pretty much all said 2 hours. Can you
imagine that? That's stamina. But they weren't
older like most of us, lol.

That is a stunning area....Went there decades ago.
NO to the log slide, but imagine that job...the
lumber stuff they have today is so expensive, but
it will grab a tree, cut it, trim off all branches
and pile it, what they get done today, would take a
month, back when the men that used the log slide
were working. They call it progress. (I hate clear
cutting. We NEED trees!)

Hi
Donna, I agree. On an episode of Nova they figured how
much carbon is captured by a healthy forest (trees,
underbrush, fungi, micro-organisms) and it helps a lot
with climate change.

Aside from all that, the trees give shade in the summer
and windbreaks in the winter and are pretty.

Not to mention all the plant and animal species
that thrive in a healthy forest habitat :)

I'm with all of you ladies. I love trees and they
serve so many purposes.