Lake Superior Circle Tour - Economical Scenic Vacations. Interesting places to see and things to do without breaking the budget
Are airline price increases and gas prices hitting $4 a gallon altering your vacation plans to visit that faraway destination?
The travel regions around Lake Superior offer an affordable yet uniquely scenic travel and vacation opportunity to get away and be renewed. ( See our travel directories for Minnesota, Wisconsin, Upper Peninsula, and Ontario )
Consider some mileage and fuel cost statistics using as an example one of the most popular destination areas around Lake Superior: the Bayfield Peninsula and the Apostle Islands. Ashland, Wisconsin is the gateway to this travel region.
Round Trip Mileage & Fuel Consumption to Ashland and return (@ 20 mpg):
From Chicago - 886 miles. 44 gallons of gas
From Madison, WI - 602 miles. 30 gallons of gas
From Minneapolis, MN - 442 miles. 22 gallons of gas
At $4/gallon the round trip from Chicago will cost you $177 in gasoline. Turning the clock back to when gas was only $3/gallon, the same trip would have cost you $132. So compared to that more sanguine time, the round trip to Ashland, WI from Chicago, Illinois will cost you an additional $45. . . in our opinion an easy amount of money to offset. Go out to eat one less time than normal and you've paid for the difference. Stay at a budget motel one or two nights and you've made up the difference.
So while it is true the cost at the pump is at all time record highs, when you put a pencil to the real cost of taking a Lake Superior region vacation, the extra out of pocket cost isn't that much. Heck you can travel through Canada from Grand Portage, Minnesota to Sault Ste. Marie Michigan (about 460 miles) with only having to fill up in Canada one time.
So "put a pencil to it" - compute your anticipated mileage and mpg - and I think you'll find a way to fit a unique Lake Superior travel experience into your vacation budget.
Here's some regional mileage maps to help you plan your trip.
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