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"These wilderness islands with haunting sea caves are accessible only by tour boat at a cost of $151 for a family of two adults and three children. There is no
by calcsam 9y ago
"These wilderness islands with haunting sea caves are accessible only by tour boat at a cost of $151 for a family of two adults and three children. There is no free 15-minute ride across the strait to Basswood Island closest to the mainland, nor a $10 shuttle between the islands, as there would be in Sweden where a heavily subsidized ferry system makes the Stockholm archipelago available to all citizens — as well as to American tourists."
Surprisingly, there are also fewer visitors to a wilderness island in the middle of Lake Superior in the sparsely populated northern Wisconsin area than to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden.
- huac 9y agoMaybe if there was easier public transport (e.g. buses and trains) more people could visit the park.
- calcsam 9y agoBayfield, Wisconsin, population 530: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayfield,_Wisconsin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayfield,_Wisconsin Stockholm, Sweden, metro area population 2.3 million: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm
- BurningFrog 9y agoWhen I hear people describe how France is, they almost always talk about Paris. Same thing with Sweden and Stockholm. Unsurprisingly, the capital city of a country during a vacation is nicer than your boring home town during a regular work week.
- true_religion 9y agoThen there is the USA, where the capital hardly breaks the ranks of the top 5 most exciting destinations. Disclaimer... DC is my hometown so I am blase about all the museum and monuments.
- isostatic 9y agoSure, but that's because the US has so much spread out. In the UK, almost everything internationally interesting is in London. Sure there's "Scotland" (a day trip to edinburgh), "Shakespereland" (day trip to Stratford on Avon), "Beatlesland" (day trip to Liverpool), and maybe Stonehenge (day trip to Salisbury) but the majority of things are in London. The Lake District or Scottish highlands are good, but you get mountains and lakes all over the world. In the US the capital is Washington, and that's interesting to some extend, but you've got the big tier cities - NY and LA, and the next tier of touristy cities like Philly/Boston (for 'history'), San Francisco, Vegas and maybe Seattle and Chicago. If you were to have the historical, financial, political and entertainment capital all in Washington, which is what you have with France, UK, Sweden etc, then that would be a far more exciting destination than just the political capital.
- BurningFrog 9y agoThat is actually one of the things I love about the US, that the political capital doesn't (yet?) monopolize all the good stuff!