It’s hard to find a sunrise location as special as Whitefish Point, the location where this entire journey began. I haven’t been able to return as much as I’d like, which helps Whitefish Point maintain is status as such a special place for me.

It doesn’t help that it’s a 2 hour and 41 minute drive, meaning a 5:10 a.m. departure when sunrise it at it’s latest. A summer road trip would mean leaving at about 3:10 a.m. So one day, I dream of staying at the Sunrise Cottages in Paradise.

I struggle to identify exactly what makes Whitefish Point so special, but I’m thinking it has to do something with the raw power of Lake Superior. Standing at the point, there is no shelter, you’re fully exposed to the elements. It’s also the closest point on land you can stand to where the Edmund Fitzgerald sank. The times I’ve been there, Superior has never been subtle, and I don’t much desire to be there on a calm, warm, summer day.

Of 1,359 published sunrises, 5 have been from Whitefish Point, representing 0.4% of the project.