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Exploring Basswood Island’s brownstone quarry by skis and snowshoes

Exploring Basswood Island’s brownstone quarry by skis and snowshoes

by Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore | Mar 5, 2023 | News

Cross country skis and snowshoes can easily carry you across lake ice and snow. With the right destination in mind, they can also transport you back in time, to the late 1800s when miners used steam drills and derricks to harvest giant blocks of Apostle Islands...
Restoration of historic dock completed at Little Sand Bay

Restoration of historic dock completed at Little Sand Bay

by Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore | Dec 13, 2022 | History, News, Places

The fabled gales of November couldn’t stop reconstruction of the historic Hokenson Brothers Fishery dock at Little Sand Bay in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Battered by storms for decades, the dock and related buildings are listed on the State and...
Oldest National Park Service Ranger retires at 100

Oldest National Park Service Ranger retires at 100

by Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore | Apr 5, 2022 | History, News

Our national parks are a place for all ages, young and old. No single person embodies that sentiment quite as well as Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest active ranger in the National Park Service who retired recently at the age of 100. An interpretive ranger at Rosie the...
A Time Capsule Letter to the Future Stewards of the Apostle Islands

A Time Capsule Letter to the Future Stewards of the Apostle Islands

by Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore | Jan 25, 2022 | Features, History, Our Work, Stewardship

What would you say to the future? Our 50th anniversary celebration of the creation of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is over. The speeches have been given, the cupcakes eaten, the candles blown out. But the legacy of all we have accomplished in the park, our...
Lakeshore Logbook –  Susan Larsen and Sophie Howk

Lakeshore Logbook – Susan Larsen and Sophie Howk

by Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore | Sep 29, 2021 | Discover the Park, Features, History, Lakeshore Logbook, Our Work, Park Info

Ranger Susan Larsen at age 23 Sophie and an old white pine on the trail to Sand Island Light As part of our 50th Anniversary celebration, we are collecting and sharing the stories of people connected to the islands, whether they are park guests, former residents or...
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