Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-23
GREAT LAKE COUNTRY IDEAL
FOR AUTUMN MOTOR TOURS
Automobile Club Suggests Several Routes
Taking Sightseers Through Regions
Rich in Interest and Color.

More and more each year motorists
are waiting until September and
october to take their annual vacation
jaunt by car, feeling that at this season
the roads are less crowded the air is
clear and crisp. after the heat of the
+ Summer. and the countryside at its
best with the glorious coloring of the
autumnal foliage. And now is the ideal
| time to take a tour up into the lake
land region-the territory bordering on
the five great lakes-Ontario, Erie,
Huron. Michigan and Superior.
With Buffalo. on Lake Erie. as the
| starting point the Automobile Club of
America has outlined a 2,000-mile trip
through this region that can be made
very comfortably in from two to three
weeks time.
Leaving Buffalo, one heads north and
westward to Niagara Falls. Crossing the
bridge. one is on Canadian Soil-Niagara
Falls, Ontario. From here our route
takes one across this province, which
borders on the north shore of Lake
Erie, through Hamilton, Woodstock,
London and Blenheim to Windsor. This
is an excellent place to spend the night
and then take the ferry over to De-
troit, Mich, in the morning.
From Detroit to Bay City one has a
choice of two routes. one bordering on
| Lake Huron and passing through Mount
Clemens. Port Huron, Port Austin and
Bayport and the second passing through
Pontiac and Flint. The latter is the
preferable route, as it is more direct
and affords the motorist an opportunity
to visit the automobile plants in Flint.
From Bay City up to Mackinaw the
route follows the west shore of Lake
Huron. passing through Linwood
Stan6ish, Lincoln, Alpena Rogers and
Cheboygan. Mackinaw is the most
northern town on the peninsula, and
mere our route turns southwark. this
time traverSing the western shore of the
State of Michigan, alongside of Lake
Michigan, via Petoskey, Traverse CITY
Northport Ludington, Muskegon, Crane
Haven, South Haven and Benton Har.
Dor to Michigan City, Ind, at the
southern end of the lake.
AT this point one is on the mair
route to Chicago, and it is only 81 mile.
from here to the metropolis of the
Middle West. There is enough of in.
tereSt to be seen in and around Chi
cago to make a Stop-over of severa
days decidedly worth while before on,
: sets out for St. Paul and Minneapolis
the twin cities on the Mississippi Rive
IN Minnesota. Our route between thes,
points lies through Rockford, Ill
Dubuque. Iowa; independence, Oelwein
Elkader Preston, Mimi; Rochester anC
Pennington.
From st. Paul one runs north anc
eastward up to Duluth on Lake Sllpe
rlor and the westernmoSt point on "Th.
Lakes" Superior is the largest anC
deepest of the five great lakes and gen
: orally conceded to be the grandest ont
of all.
At Duluth start eastward on the re
turn journey, crossing to Superior
Wis, and running across the northern
part of that State and into Michigan
which States form the southern boun
Diary of Lake Superior, via. Ashland
Ironwood, Houghton, Ishpeming, Mar
quette and Newberry to Sault Ste
Marie. One crosses the st. Mary
; River by ferry to Sault Ste. Marie
Ontario, and continues the Journey
; once more on Canadian soil, through
TheSsalon, Cutler. Espanola. Sudbur,
: and Sturgeon Falls to North Bay.
Here one turns southwark via Trou
Creek, Huntsville, Bracebridge and Bar
, RE to Toronto. on Lake Ontario, know
as the Queen City" of the province
FFem Toronto we follow the shore o
: Lake Ontario through Hamilton bacl
5 to Niagara Falls and Buffalo
For the motorist who wishes a shorte