Harmless fun, works of art or eyesores? Stacking rocks along the shores of Lake Superior in Minnesota stirs passions for and against.
In this July 20, 2015 photo, numerous cairns stacked at Cave Point County Park are seen on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Door County, Wis. To some along the north shoreline of Lake Superior in Minnesota, building stacks of rocks, or cairns, is akin to making sand castles and can even be meditative. To others, these manmade rock formations despoil nature's beauty and stand as monuments to the human ego.
Those who live along the north shore say cairns began appearing more often about five years ago, possibly because of the growth in popularity of Instagram and other social media sites,Photographer Travis Novitsky, who grew up and still lives on the Grand Portage Reservation, where the shoreline extends north into Canada, said he wasn’t bothered by cairns at first, but that he now sees them all along the lakefront.
When friends Stacey Fox and Anna Bennett visited Iona’s Beach between Gooseberry Falls and Split Rock Lighthouse state parks last summer, they found several delicately balanced cairns. Fox posted a photo of them on a Facebook group dedicated to the north shore, but it was quickly removed. Bennett asked why, not realizing she had waded into a fierce debate about cairns.
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