D is for...Dorion

My younger brother is finally heading off to university and he decided on Lakehead, in Thunder Bay, Ont. My parents decided we should check it out and allotted two days in T-Bay to explore his future home. The campus tour took two hours. That was all we had on the itinerary.

The next day, we decided to drive around and see what the GTBA had to offer. Our first stop was accidental – everyone but Driver Dad had fallen asleep, so no one was reading the map and told him when to turn. We wound up in Dorion, home to Canada’s longest suspension bridge.

Spanning a massive canyon that leads out to Lake Superior, the bridge is 600 feet long. It’s narrow enough that posing for a picture with the background in it is fairly awkward, and if you tripped you’d have nowhere to go but over the edge.

The private owners of the bridge built a concrete staircase last year, which allows you to walk down the canyon and follow the river that runs through it back to the parking lot. An alternative method of transportation to your car was the zipline, although it wasn’t open while we were there. Otherwise I would have done it. Probably.

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