Cloquet / Duluth KOA Campground, Cloquet, Minnesota
4 August 2022
Marc- Today was an 8 hour travel day. We try to avoid this length but there were no campgrounds within a more reasonable timeframe. The campground is in a quiet semi rural suburb of Duluth. The scenery along Route 2 was farmland, farmland, and then forest. We did see a few small lakes and crossed the Mississippi River twice (not a large river this far North). The farms were cultivating wheat, corn, soybeans, canola, sunflower and flax. The blue color of the flax fields is really cool. Route 2 became a divided highway for 75% of the journey. We did see some cattle (black Angus). There was little traffic. Once we passed the Paul Bunyan Statue in Bemidji, MN, we came upon forests and log hauling trucks. None of the forests that we could see from the road had any large trees. In the Duluth area we saw three large paper mills still operating. The Sappi Mill produces high quality graphic papers. There are also the Newpage and Georgia-Pacific mills.
No wildlife to report except one fox seen crossing Route 2.
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