Misery Bay beach

A woodland path leads to the mouth of the Misery River, a charming, often unpeopled place to linger.

This isolated Lake Superior shoreline spot is yet another Keweenaw gem. The cold, clear, briskly moving Misery River winds around into the big lake. There's a DNR boat launch here. At the eastern end of the parking lot a sandy path through a forest takes you around to the sandy beach and the fascinating curl of the stream at the rivermouth.

A look from its mouth up the Misery River. Before it empties, a long spit of sand separates the river from Lake Superior.

The site's specialness is intensified when you experience it alone, which you often can. Superior stays shallow for a long ways out, so this is a fine place for children. It is one place where the water is actually colder as you move up the river than in the lake.

Takes the same road—Misery Bay—that goes from M-26 in Toivola to Agate Beach, but follow the signs to Misery Bay.
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