Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Caption: Isle Royale Natl. Park
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Isle Royale National Park
Caption: Isle Royale National Park is a remote island cluster in Lake Superior, near Michigan’s border with Canada. It’s a car-free wilderness of forests, lakes and waterways, where moose and wolves roam. The Greenstone Ridge Trail links the Windigo Harbor in the west and Rock Harbor in the east. The 19th-century Rock Harbor Lighthouse has a small museum.
Area: 893 mi²
Natl. Park Established: April 3, 1940
Visitors: 24,966 (in 2016)
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Caption: A lone Balsam Fir contemplates its surroundings heartbreaking Beauty, where there are no hearts to break.
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of Rock Harbor Lighthouse
Caption: Rock Harbor Lighthouse is a 50-foot-tall tower built in 1855.
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Isle Royale National Park
Caption: "But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called—called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come.”
—Jack London, The Call of the Wild
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Caption: A lone hiker contemplates the infinite combinations of Earth, Water and Sky.
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of America Dock
Caption: Former dock of the SS America and a Royale sky.
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Isle Royale National Park
Caption: "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
John Lubbock
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Caption: A moose antler lies along an Isle Royale trail.
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Caption: The Albert Stoll, Jr. Memorial Trail leads to beautiful Scoville Point.
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of Rock Harbor
Caption: Rock Harbor August 1951
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Isle Royale National Park
Caption: "Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of Edisen Fishery
Caption: The fish house of historical Edison Fishery near Indian Head Point.
Picture of Edisen Fishery
Picture of Edisen Fishery
Caption: Edison Fishery cabin.
Picture of Edisen Fishery
Picture of Edisen Fishery
Caption: A rusty old water dipper hangs at Edison Fishery.
Picture of Edisen Fishery
Picture of Edisen Fishery
Caption: A metal fisherman's boat rusts in the sun at Edison Fishery.
Picture of Edisen Fishery
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Caption: A canoeist paddles toward the Lookout Louise trail head.
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of Lookout Louise
Caption: Beautiful view northwest from Lookout Louise of the Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, Canada.
Picture of Isle Royale National Park
Picture of Isle Royale (Menagerie Island) Lighthouse
Caption: Isle Royale Light on Menagerie Island is an octagonal shaped 61 foot tower lighthouse within Isle Royale National Park, in northern Michigan.
It was constructed in 1875.
Isle Royale National Park
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