Visiting Warren Woods - er, Dunes State Park
Hey everyone! Being the weekend and I still the proud new owner of a Michigan State Parks Recreation Passport, I thought it would be fun to go spend a couple of hours in another state park. Today's forecast was to be all rainy and snowy, but just cloudy conditions resulted...and while not like great weather to watch a sunset in, it would be great to go hiking in. So, I decided to go to the last of Berrien County's three state parks that I had actually not yet visited: Warren Woods, which is actually just a couple miles east of Warren Dunes (see my last post). You know the saying that goes "the best laid plans of mice and men"?? Well...today was a prime example of that. I spent a blissful half hour driving out in the middle of beautiful Michigan farm country, with wide open spaces, neatly cut corn fields on rolling hills, and red barns everywhere...only to discover, as I came at the park from the east, that the road it was on was closed, due to all the flooding