Menominee and Marinette - Michigan's Upper Peninsula

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There are picnic tables and a public beach here ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_north_pier_and_lighthouse__tourist_park_beach.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e265"><b>Michigan Welcome Center.</b></a> This vintage log visitor information center for Michigan has many charming architectural details from 1938. <br> ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_michigan_welcome_center.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e268"><b>Red Arrow Park.</b></a> At the base of a long sandbar extending a mile out into the bay is this outstanding park, with beach, picnic area, playground, and a path to the protected bay where waterfowl nest ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_red_arrow_park.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e269"><b>Walking tour of downtown Marinette.</b></a> See an island park, logging museum, the impressive homes of 19th-century lumber barons overlooking the big river ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_walking_tour_of_downtown_marinette.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e267"><b>Menekaunee taverns.</b></a> This district across the river in Wisconsin was originally a squatters' village for millworkers, loggers, and fishermen. Today the old taverns here are a draw for people who want authentic, unfussed-over local color ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_menekaunee_taverns.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e261"><b>Henes Park.</b></a> A 50-acre point extending out into Green Bay with wooded nature paths, a beach, fine views of the bay, a picturesque pond, and picnic area ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_henes_park.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e260"><b>DeYoung Family Zoo.</b></a> See endangered, often rescued big cats: leopards, tigers, lions, cougars, also wolves and bears in large fenced areas with ponds, and reptiles inside. Kids can feed, pet, and be photographed with some animals. ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_deyoung_family_zoo.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <p>   </font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td>   </td> </tr>  <tr> <td align="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td valign=top width="1%" bgcolor="#F5F5D5">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="9" height=500 alt="|"> </td> <td valign=top width="63%">  <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0> <tr> <td valign=top align=center bgcolor="#018650" colspan=2> <center> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="30" height=8 alt="-"><br> <b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><a class="whitelink" href="escanaba__menominee___the_green_bay_shore.html" target="_top">Region: Escanaba, Menominee & the Green Bay Shore</a></font></b><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="100%" height=3 alt="-"><br> <h1>MENOMINEE AND MARINETTE</h1> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="30" height=8 alt="-"></center></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="63%">  <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td align="left">  <font face="Georgia"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> <table align="right" cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=162> <tr> <td> <a href="menominee_map.html" target="_top"><img src="http://hunts-upguide.com/photos/156.gif" width=162 height=250 alt="Menominee minimap" border=0></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <a href="menominee_map.html" target="_top"><b>Click to enlarge</b></a> </font> </td> </tr> </table> These classic lumber towns were shaped by their location at the mouth of the Menominee River, one of the largest watersheds in the north woods. <center> <table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=400> <tr> <td> <img src="http://hunts-upguide.com/photos/475.gif" width=400 height=370 alt="Menominee" border=0> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <font face="Gill Sans Light,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-3"> <a href ="http://photography-plus.com">Photography Plus</a> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <b>More than most cities in the upper Great Lakes, Marinette, WI (left) and Menominee, MI continue to have economies dependant of the river that separates them.</b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center><p> The 1860s kicked off the boom times for Menominee, Michigan, on the river's north bank, and Marinette, Wisconsin, on the south bank. Menominee was the U.P.'s biggest lumber port. Large-scale lumbering, financed by investors in Chicago, Milwaukee, and the East, meant that the harbor bustled with shipping activity until 1910, when the timber finally gave out.<br><br>Menominee and Marinette have the appealing characteristics of lumber towns: some grand Victorian architecture, two beautiful libraries, good parks, close-in neighborhoods with charm — or potential charm, anyway. Downtown Menominee on Green Bay offers personal specialty shopping and two good restaurants by a waterfront park and marina. <br><br>Residents of Menominee and Marinette have an unusual amount of public land on the water: the shores of Green Bay, with campgrounds and sand beaches; home sites for miles on the Menominee River shore; many areas of wildlife-rich wetland; and, upstream on Wisconsin's nearby Peshtigo River, some of the Midwest's best whitewater. <br>Affordable housing, affordable boating, pretty good schools — it seems like an ideal place to raise a family. it's hard to believe that hundreds of skilled manufacturing jobs go unfilled at Marinette Marine, Enstrom Helicopter in Menominee, and some other employers. Maybe motorists on U.S. 41 just aren't aware that Lake Michigan is just a few blocks away? An Economic Development billboard on 41 suggests, "Why not work where you vacation?" <br><br>The active harbor at the river mouth is an unusual mix: trawlers of Ruleau Bros. Fish Co., perhaps the largest in the Upper Lakes, "salties" from Finland come around 20 times a year, delivering high-quality pulp. Marinette Marine, begun in 1942 to build Navy barges, has become a major U.S. shipbuilder employing 800. It launches bring celebrities to town. In 2005 Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert came with and his wife, _____, to launch Coast Guard ships like the new <i>Mackinaw</i>, based in Cheboygan, Michigan. Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani came for the launch of one of the three big double-ended Staten Island ferries built here. See "Menekaunee Harbor" and "Riverview Park" for details. <br> <br>Local people think of Menominee and its slightly bigger sister city, Marinette, Wisconsin, as the "twin cities." Thirteen institutions use "M&M" in their name, including the YMCA and a shopping mall. The cities now work together as the River Cities Chamber of Commerce, promoting shared tourism and in economic development, even though they are in different states. Michigan's unusual position on two peninsula has contributed to a certain insularity on the part of its politicians and the beleaguered Big Three automakers. As a longtime Menominee resident, the Upper Peninsula's popular congressman, Bart Stupak, has the greater perspective from living on a border.<br><br>The Menominee Indians (or "Wild Rice People") fished (largely for sturgeon and for the smaller menominee), hunted, and harvested wild rice near the river mouth. Not so very long ago wild rice grew in what's now the parking lot of the M&M Plaza by the Interstate Bridge. The Menominee and the Ojibwa were original inhabitants of the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin. They go back long before the 1600s, the time when disruptions and conflicts between native peoples occurred because of the fur trade and the French- British struggle to control North America.<br><br>French fur traders stopped as early as the mid-1600s to trade at the large <b>Menominee fishing village</b> at the river's mouth. Marinette was named after <b>"Queen" Marinette</b>, the Menominee woman married to two traders in succession. "She was not a queen, and her name is probably a contraction of Marie Antoinette," states the <i>Dictionary of Wisconsin History.</I> She lived here from the 1820s until her death in 1865, and managed her husbands' trading business and the real estate she acquired. Her trading skills and kinship network enabled her post to remain independent from John Jacob Astor's fur trading cartel. <br><br><br><br>Since their high points in 1900, the cities have shrunk in size and importance. Menominee's population, 10% less than in 1980, continues to decline. Today it has about the same population it had in the 1890s. <br><br><center> <table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=400> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><b>...continued below...</b></font> <br clear="all"> <hr> <center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center> <hr> <tr> <td> <img src="http://hunts-upguide.com/photos/897.gif" width=400 height=322 alt="Menominee sunset" border=0> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <font face="Gill Sans Light,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-3"> Mary Hunt </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <b>Downtown Menominee’s late Victorian architecture on Tenth Avenue is shown off by a vivid sunset. Thai Cuisine (white sign) serves noteworthy Thai food. First Street, along the waterfront, has intact blocks of historic storefronts and the grand Spies Public Library, well worth a visit. </b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center><p> The twin cities are unusual in having a dredged <b>ship channel</b> that permits freighters to travel as far as one mile up the Menominee River. Marinette is home to <b>Marinette Marine</b>, located right on the river three long blocks east of downtown. One the few major Great Lakes shipbuilders, it started in 1942 making World War II navy barges. Marinette Marine now builds <b>tugs, minesweepers</b>, and <b>buoy tenders</b> for the Coast Guard and other customers. When ships near completion, they are moored on the river for outfitting. Then they <b>can clearly be seen from Menominee's River Park</b>. It's reached by taking 10th Street south past the M&M Plaza shopping center, then turning right onto Sixth Avenue. It is quite a surprise, upon occasion, to see the bright orange of a new <b>Staten Island Ferry</b> here in the Middle West, completely out of context, in almost a small town setting. <br><center> <table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=420> <tr> <td> <img src="http://hunts-upguide.com/photos/341.gif" width=420 height=315 alt="Staten Island Ferry" border=0> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <b>The Staten Island Ferry "Spirit of America" was side-launched into the Menominee River on Dec. 18. This is the third (and last) ferry built by Marinette Marine for the City of New York. Photo by Dick Lund.</b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center><p> The Menekaunee Bridge leads from downtown Menominee's First Street to the taverns and docks of Marinette's eastside Menekaunee neighborhood. The bridge provides a <b>good vantage point for boat-watching</b>. If you're lucky, you might see a dinky little tug guiding a huge ship through the channel. Old mothballed fishing boats are on the Menominee side. An outmoded Great Lakes freighter has been stripped of its superstructure to provide an unloading platform in Menekaunee. Big vessels move into the harbor to deliver scrap pig iron to foundries and to pick up paper pulp from Menominee's new state-of-the-art pulp factory, <b>Great Lakes Pulp & Fiber</b> at 701 Fourth Avenue. City officials worked hard to induce it to locate here, where old mills once stood. Great Lakes Pulp & Fiber supplies paper plants with recycled office paper, which it has de-inked and bleached, re-pulped and dried. Pulp is sent by rail to NewPage (formerly Mead) in Escanaba and other paper manufacturers in baled form. <center> <table cellpadding=3 cellspacing=0 border=0 width=449> <tr> <td> <img src="http://hunts-upguide.com/photos/902.gif" width=449 height=233 alt="Sturgeon run" border=0> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <font face="Gill Sans Light,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-3"> Mary Hunt </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <b>The fall sturgeon run near the Menominee River mouth attracts fishermen, largely Polish and other Eastern Europeans from Chicago. Their culture highly values the ancient fish, now recovering from 19th-century depredation in the Great Lakes. </b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </center><p> <br><br>A note to visitors: many years ago Menominee's city leaders decided to rename its streets in an ostensibly rational way that can be quite confusing. Just about every street is a number. "Avenues" run east-west, while "streets" are north-south. <br><br>The most interesting section of Menominee is <b>downtown</b> facing Lake Michigan - the Harborfront District along First Street. The historic downtown's striking buildings were erected from 1880 to 1910. They extend north and south of the <b>Great Lakes Memorial Marina Park</b>, site of the city's bandshell. The mills and docks that lined the shoreline are long gone, creating civic space for parks and lake views. The district declined as the lucrative lumber market dried up and Marinette's downtown grew. Just a few years ago many of these storefronts were empty. In recent years the district has become over 80% filled with shops. (See "Downtown Menominee" point of interest.) <br><br>Downtown Marinette, without lakefront land, has not fared so well. (See "A <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_walking_tour_of_downtown_marinette.html" target="_top">walking tour of downtown Marinette</a>" as a point of interest.) But Marinette's central area has its share of beautiful old buildings. Current restoration projects may spark further preservation efforts. <br><br>The Green Bay shore in Menominee and Marinette has <b>swimming beaches</b> at <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_henes_park.html" target="_top">Henes Park</a> on Menominee's north side, Tourist Park just south of Menominee's historic waterfront district on First Street, and <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/menominee_and_marinette_red_arrow_park.html" target="_top">Red Arrow Park</a> on a sandy spit in Marinette. <b>Waterfront benches</b> and a paved path have been installed by <b>Schoegel's Bayview Restaurant</b> on U.S. 41 on Menominee's north side, and the owners hope adjacent businesses will follow suit. The restaurant's big windows are a wonderful place to see birds while sitting in comfort drinking coffee and eating inside. "I had the privilege of having a ringside seat at a <b>rather unusual game preserve</b> this past year. I've seen more neat wildlife while seated at a booth at Schloegel's than I have seen in the wild in a long, long time," wrote local Audubon Society president Mary Moss in a 2002 newsletter. "This last winter I've seen eagles, deer, foxes and coyotes, not to mention an assortment of the usual feathered friends that hit feeders in the winter." Schloegel's now puts bird guides on its tables, and sells them at its gift shop. <br><br>Today most of Menominee's biggest employers are related to the paper industry. The various aspects of the forest products industry comprise the Upper Peninsula's leading employment sector. The 300 employees at <b>Menominee Paper</b> make waxed paper, sold under the name Wax-Tex. <b>Lloyd-Flanders Industries</b>, founded in 1906, made woven wicker furniture and won fame for its baby buggies. When employees went on a lengthy strike, founder Marshall Lloyd circumvented the need for reed, and for weavers to hand-weave it, by inventing a loom which machine-wove a very durable <b>wicker made of paper pulp</b> rolled around wires. Today the factory, on U.S. 41/10th Street at 30th Avenue north of downtown, makes to high-end <b>wicker furniture</b>. Its product line, which includes many outdoor pieces, is sold at some 2,000 stores across the country and abroad. The interesting story of Marshall Lloyd and his furniture, now highly collectible, is the subject of a meticulously researched book with color photos, put out by the prestigious art book publisher Rizzoli. Lee J. Curtis's <i>Lloyd Loom: Woven Fiber Furniture</i> is available at Aurora Books in downtown Menominee. Groups can call ahead and possibly schedule a <b>plant tour</b> at (906) 863-4491. <br><br>Another unusual Menominee firm is <b>Enstrom Helicopter</b>, started by a U.P. logger and mechanic. Later it was briefly owned by the flamboyant defense attorney <b>F. Lee Bailey</b>, a former helicopter pilot himself. Part of Bailey's motivation in buying Enstrom was to give a job to one of his then most notorious clients, a man involved in the Watergate burglary whom he relocated here. The company, located at 2209 22nd Street by the Menominee airport, is experiencing on a smaller scale the same problems Boeing had awhile ago: losing contracts to foreign competitors. <br><br>Until recently Menominee's largest employer had been <b>Emerson Electric</b>, now closed. Its 500 employees had made shop vacs and dehumidifiers sold at Sears Roebuck. <p align="right"><a href="escanaba__menominee___the_green_bay_shore.html" target="_top">Back to Escanaba, Menominee & the Green Bay Shore</a></p> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="37%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td height="4" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=1 alt="-"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="center" bgcolor="#C7302D" width="37%">  <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> <b> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> <font size="-1"> MENOMINEE AND MARINETTE<br> RESTAURANTS,<br> LODGINGS<br> & CAMPGROUNDS </font> <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> <font size="-2">These are our choices, not ads.</font><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> </b> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top bgcolor="#FFE09B" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>MENOMINEE AND MARINETTE<br>RESTAURANTS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> These two cities offer lots of dining choices: a lunch spot in a bakery, a French bistro, a popular café/espresso bar, a sophisticated steakhouse in an historic building overlooking the harbor, a Thai restaurant, and more. <p> For full write-ups of our recommended restaurants, click <a href="menominee_and_marinette_restaurants.html">here</a>. </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CDCCAD" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>MENOMINEE AND MARINETTE<br>LODGINGS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> Special events like the August Harborfront festival fill rooms a year in advance. There aren't all that many rooms in the twin cities, so sometimes events like a bowling tournament will fill up the town. Don't count on getting a room without reservations. <br><br>Arranged from north to south. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> <a name="e277"><b>AMERICINN MOTEL & SUITES</b></a><br> (906) 863-8699; (800) 634-3444 <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> Rather than being isolated on a commercial strip, this luxurious 62-room motel, new in 1999, is within town <i>and</i> right on Green Bay. It has a real sense of place – and a <b>boat launch</b>, too. The <b>playground</b> and <b>picnic area</b> with grills have good bay views. So does an entire wing of guest rooms, including a dozen with <b>balconies</b> or <b>patios</b>. Rates for a standard room (two queens, no lake view) in summer with no special events are $82. For a king room with whirlpool, microwave, and minifridge $112 (lakeview) and $102. Ask about suites and fireplace rooms. There’s a guest laundry. <br>The <b>indoor pool</b> is pleasant, with a cathedral ceiling and lots of natural light – an AmericInn trademark, along with the big, <b>comfortable lobby</b> with fireplace. Here it has a nautical theme. There’s a generous "enhanced" <b>continental breakfast</b>, with sausage, even, and 10% off at the <b>Perkins Restaurant & Bakery</b> with lounge right next door. You could walk to the historic waterfront downtown, a little over a mile away, along First Street and only have two blocks along the busy road. Guests have free use of exercise facilities at the local Y. Reserve ahead for weekends in season, starting in mid-May. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>2330 Tenth St./U.S. 41 at 23rd Ave., a mile south of the Y junction of U.S. 41 and M-35, and just under a mile north of downtown. Wheelchair-accessibility: some rooms ADA accessible. Children 12 and under free with parents. $6/extra person.</i> <p> <a name="e278"><b>GEHRKE'S GASTHAUS</b></a><br> (906) 863-2295 <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> This big, comfortable family home is <b>on the bay</b> three blocks south of the Menominee marina and downtown shops and restaurants. Guests have their own quarters. <b>Gourmet breakfasts</b>. Four guest rooms ($88 and $98 for two) have private baths. They share use of a large <b>living room</b> with <b>fireplace</b>. Some decor reflects innkeeper Nancy Gehrke's theater involvement. The house is oriented to the street, but the big <b>back yard</b> has a beautiful lake view and sandy <b>beach</b>. No credit cards. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>320 First St. Open from May into Oct. Not handicap-accessible. Children: call for extra-person charge. Well-behaved children welcome. No pets. </i> <p> <a name="e279"><b>M&M VICTORIAN INN</b></a><br> (715) 732-9531 <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> This bed and breakfast is in an ornate, restored and dramatically decorated Queen Anne lumberman’s house in a mixed residential-commercial neighborhood about five blocks east of downtown Marinette. It’s the very place where innkeeper Jean Moore-Mallory grew up. The downstairs is given over to the dining and kitchen of an outstanding European bistro-style restaurant open, for dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. preparation area. The only common area for B&B guests is a downstairs <b>sitting room with fireplace</b>. (Restaurant guests go through it to reach a restroom.) Five guest rooms, furnished with antiques, have private baths, phones, and cable TV. One guest room ($125, weekends $140 in summer, more in winter) has a porch, sleeper sofa for adults traveling together, fireplace, and two-person whirlpool. Another large room ($110/$125) also has a two-person whirlpool. The other three rooms are from $75 to $90, or $80 to $100 on weekends. Full breakfast. No smoking. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>1393 Main St. about four blocks east of downtown. Wheelchair access: no. Well-behaved children welcome. </i> <p> <a name="e280"><b>BEST WESTERN RIVERFRONT INN</b></a><br> (715) 732-1000 <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> In downtown Marinette, this six-story, 120-room facility is the area’s only full-service hotel with a restaurant and lounge. The pool is new. The hotel is in a good location for walkers, a right downtown, across from the library and the park on Stephenson Island, with the grand old homes of Riverside Avenue a few blocks away. Half the rooms have a pleasant river view. There’s in-room coffee, and free HBO and video games. Sample rates for standard queen rooms in midsummer: $89 with a river view, $84 otherwise. Riverview kings are $94. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>Downtown at 1821 Riverside Ave., just to the west of Bridge Street at the foot of the Interstate Bridge. Wheelchair-accessible. Children 18 and under are free with parents. No pets.</i> <p> <a name="e1396"><b>MARINETTE INN</b></a><br> (715) 732-0594 <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> This 22-room mom-and-pop motel, a mile from downtown and the Menominee River, has lots of convenient extras: microwaves and minifridges, dish TV, DVD players and wi-fi internet in each room, free photocopying and fax, and a fish-cleaning station and freezer. Free coffee in office. Rooms with one queen are currently $42 in winter, $46 in summer. Ask about larger rooms and rooms with kitchens. <br>On the edge of a residential area for walking, jogging. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>1450 Marinette Ave./U.S. 41 a bit south of Carney Ave. Handicap access: not officially. No walk-in showers. Many handicapped guests. </i> <p> </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#B6DBA4" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>MENOMINEE AND MARINETTE<br>CAMPGROUNDS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> <a name="e281"><b>RIVER PARK CAMPGROUND</b></a><br> (906) 863-5101 <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> 54 close-spaced modern campsites are on the Menominee River right at the north end of the Interstate Bridge. Just up a stairway is M&M Plaza with K Mart and the outstanding <b>Angeli's Central Market</b> with laundry. There's <b>fishing</b> and a <b>playground</b>. Menominee's harborfront shops and restaurants a half-mile walk or bike ride. Campers can hang fishing poles from the riverfrint deck with gazebo. It looks across to the Marinette Marine dockwall where you can sometimes see ships being outfitted.<br> <b>Reservations are advised</b> and ongoing at this popular municipal campground, but summers aren't necessarily completely booked. Management tries to keep 4 sites open until Friday for campers without reservations, and for tent campers. Around $27/night for full hookup, $25 for electric only, $20 for tents. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>Coming from the north on U.S. 41,/10th Ave., go thru intersection of 10th and 10th, then down a hill, then right behind K Mart. Open from mid May into Oct, weather permitting. Handicap accessible: 2 baths and showers. 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