Spending a week at our camper in northern Minnesota, I took a a few hours and headed up to the Split Rock Lighthouse, located about 50 miles north of Duluth on the western shore of Lake Superior. Built in 1910 after a series of shipwrecks in the area, it served it’s purpose for over half a century, before being decommissioned in 1969. It is now part of the State Park system, with the lighthouse itself being accessible from spring to fall.

The walk from the lighthouse to this spot wasn’t as far as it seems. The stairs down the cliff though looked a little daunting, and had several resting areas along the way. I’ve only taken one set of stairs longer than these, those being at the 12 Apostles in Southern Australia.