Plan a Lake Superior Circle Tour You'll Remember for the Right Reasons

Plan a Lake Superior Circle Tour you'll remember for the right reasons—not because you missed the best stops or spent your vacation second-guessing your itinerary.

Stop spending hours comparing Facebook recommendations, Google reviews, and random blog posts trying to figure out the "right" itinerary. Learn a proven planning framework from someone who's spent a lifetime exploring—and teaching—Lake Superior.

My approach is built around landscape literacy—the idea that every shoreline, cliff, lighthouse, and abandoned mine tells part of Lake Superior's story. Once you learn how to read the landscape, every stop becomes more meaningful.

Inside you'll learn 5 strategic tips to:

✔ Stop wondering whether to travel clockwise or counterclockwise.

✔ Build an itinerary that actually fits the time you have—not someone else's vacation.

✔ Have a plan to figure out your priorities—and what stops you can confidently skip.

✔ Avoid common planning mistakes that waste precious vacation time.

✔ Start seeing Lake Superior through the stories written into its landscapes.

Heads up: This is a high-resolution visual guide (16MB) to ensure you can see all the historical details. Best downloaded on Wi-Fi!

I'm Emily Macgillivray—the Outdoors Historian.

I wasn't introduced to Lake Superior on vacation.

I grew up on its north shore in Thunder Bay and now live on its south shore in Bayfield, Wisconsin.

Everything I teach has been shaped by years of academic research, field teaching, and personal experience exploring Lake Superior—so you can spend less time guessing and more time enjoying your trip.

Everything I teach has been shaped by years of academic research, field teaching, and personal experience exploring Lake Superior—so you can spend less time guessing and more time enjoying your trip.

As a historian with a PhD specializing in the Great Lakes, I believe the best road trips aren't just about checking destinations off a list.

Most travel guides tell you where to stop.

I want to help you understand why those places matter.

This free planner is the same philosophy I use to help travelers build trips that are less stressful—and far more meaningful.