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Isle Royale National Park is a national park of the United States consisting of Isle Royale, along with more than 400 small adjacent islands and the surrounding waters of Lake Superior, in Michigan. Isle Royale is 45 mi (72 km) long and 9 mi (14 km) wide, with an area of 206.73 sq mi (535.4 km 2 ), making it the fourth-largest lake island in ...
Isle Royale (/ ˈ r ɔɪ əl /, ROY-əl) [1] is an island of the Great Lakes located in the northwest of Lake Superior and part of the U.S. state of Michigan.The island and the 450 surrounding smaller islands and waters make up Isle Royale National Park.
Isle Royale National Park has a total area of 894 square miles (2,320 km 2), of which 209 square miles (540 km 2) is land. Isle Royale National Park consists of one large island (Isle Royale) surrounded by over 450 smaller islands, although approximately 110 of these islands are formally named. [1]
A one-way trip on the National Park Service’s Ranger III ferry from Houghton, Michigan, to Isle Royale costs $80 for visitors over the age of 15 and $40 for visitors ages 1 through 15.
It was followed by Grand Canyon National Park with 4,733,705 visits and Zion National Park with 4,623,238 visits. Isle Royale's isolated location requires more effort to get to, requiring a boat ...
Rock Harbor is the main access point for visitors landing on Isle Royale in northern Lake Superior.It sits four miles (6.4 km) from the northeastern end of the 45-mile-long (72 km) island, the whole of which is protected as Isle Royale National Park.
June 14, 1984 (Southeast shore of Mott Island [5: Isle Royale National Park: The Algoma was a passenger steamer built in 1883. In November 1885, it ran into a blinding snowstorm, veered off course, and ran aground near Isle Royale.
The Greenstone Ridge Trail is a 40-mile-long (64 km) hiking trail on Isle Royale, in Lake Superior, northern Michigan. The island is within Isle Royale National Park. There are no roads on the island, a wilderness area and national park, so the trail doubles as the primary means of land transportation across the island. [1] [2]