08/12/2026
🥰One of my favorite places - very close to Grand Marais, Michigan! 😍 Just a short 10 minute drive. 😁
What is the "Log Slide"? 🪵
Today, when you visit the Log Slide Overlook, you get stunning views of Lake Superior, the Grand Sable Dunes, and Au Sable Point. If you could travel back in time to over a century ago, the Log Slide would have been buzzing with activity. Beginning in the late 1800s through the 1920s, logging was a prominent industry in the Upper Peninsula.
Logs were towed on Lake Superior in large groups, called log booms, from where they were cut to nearby sawmills. Several large chutes were constructed along the lakeshore to send logs from land onto the lake. One of the most famous chutes was on the western edge of the Grand Sable Dunes. Legend has it that this chute earned the name, "the Devil's Slide" because logs would catch fire due to the immense friction produced when they were sent down the chute.
Today, no evidence of the chute at the Grand Sable Dunes remains, but interpretive panels along the 1/8-mile trail to the overlook still tell the story behind the name, the "Log Slide".
Learn more about the Grand Sable Dunes and Log Slide history here: https://www.nps.gov/piro/learn/nature/grand-sable-dunes.htm
NPS Photo.
