A day by the river and lakes: Ludington StatePark

Ludington Statepark: Day1

Ludington statepark is like a natural amusement park! Its like you visit Acadia in NH. From the moment we entered the park I was in love with the park. I already wanna go back. Its a combination of dunes,trails, river,unique canoe trail, hamlin lake and the might Lake of MI. Statepark is just between the lake of Michigan and hamlin lake,which is connected through sable river. It all are so serene and beautiful. This obviously is the prettiest statepark in MI I have ever been.
A view of lake MI.

We started exploring the statepark at the Hamlin lake. We rented two individual kayaks and steered into the hamlin lake. Lake was very busy with lots of speedboats,kayaks and all types of water activities. There are two trails which you can take. One is the famous canoe trail through the Hamlin lake or the Lost lake trail which is more calm and with no motorized boats. We chose to do the lost lake trail for 2 hours.

To enter the lost lake from Hamlin lake you will have to paddle under this bridge, and once you do that its whole other world. Its calm and lovely and away from the boats and crowds. You will paddle along lines of lily pads and small islands and ponds in between. 

Exploring the lily pads!

 

Though its a small lake compared to Hamlin lake it easily can take up 2 hours if you paddle through each of the small ponds and spend time watching the lilies and fishes. We took it very light,stopped to take photos,to eat and had an amazing time.

After we were done with the paddling we decided to hit the Lake MI beach. But as usual the lake was still cold (Seriously??cold even in June!). 

And here comes the fun part,Since Hamlin lake was warm the Big sable river connecting the Hamlin lake an Lake MI was warm. So if you go to this point you will be awed by the mother natures surprise for you! You can play in the warm water which is surrounded by the cold Lake of MI. There were people river floating in the river, they start from Hamlin lake and end up in lake MI. We swam in the water, floated and had so much fun. This was one of the highlights of the day for me.

After having a splash at the river we checked in at the bed and breakfast inn at the downtown. We freshened up and walked to the Ludington north lighthouse to watch the sunset. The walk to the light itself was so good, a narrow walk right into the lake.

The sunset was magical, we sat on the walkway facing the sun and got immersed in the serene beauty of the lake.

And the sun bid farewell and hid in the lake.

After sunset we bought ice cream from the famous 'House of flavors'-who now have the Guinness world record of longest ice cream, and walked back to the inn. 

The end of a beautiful day!