Isle Royale Light

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The Isle Royale Light is also well known as the Menagerie Island Light. This lighthouse is located on the southern shore of Isle Royale which is a National Park with very severe restrictions on tourists (what you bring in, you take back out).

Because of the restrictions on tourist traffic to Isle Royale, the best way to see this light is on an excursion. One such example is Keewenau Excursions out of Houghton Michigan.

This portion of Lake Superior has very severe storms. Readers may note that the building in the photo has steel shutters - that's not protection from vandals, but rather protection from water damage.^[1]

A very comprehensive history of this light is documented by Terry Pepper ^[2] and is not reproduced here.

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[edit] Bibliography and further reading

• Bibliography on Michigan lighthouses.
• Hyde, Charles K., and Ann and John Mahan. The Northern Lights: Lighthouses of the Upper Great Lakes. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. ISBN 0814325548 ISBN 9780814325544.
• Oleszewski, Wes, Great Lakes Lighthouses, American and Canadian: A Comprehensive Directory/Guide to Great Lakes Lighthouses, (Gwinn, Michigan: Avery Color Studios, Inc., 1998) ISBN 0-932212-98-0.
• Penrod, John, Lighthouses of Michigan, (Berrien Center, Michigan: Penrod/Hiawatha, 1998) ISBN 9780942618785 ISBN 9781893624238.
• Penrose, Laurie and Bill, A Traveler’s Guide to 116 Michigan Lighthouses (Petoskey, Michigan: Friede Publications, 1999). ISBN 0923756035 ISBN 9780923756031
• Pepper, Terry. Seeing the Light: Lighthouses on the western Great Lakes.
• Putnam, George R., Lighthouses and Lightships of the United States, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933).
• Splake, T. Kilgore. Superior Land Lights. Battle Creek, MI: Angst Productions, 1984.
• Wagner, John L.. Beacons Shining in the Night: The Lighthouses of Michigan. Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University.
• Wagner, John L., Michigan Lighthouses: An Aerial Photographic Perspective, (East Lansing, Michigan: John L. Wagner, 1998) ISBN 1880311011 ISBN 9781880311011.
• Wright, Larry and Wright, Patricia, Great Lakes Lighthouses Encyclopedia Hardback (Erin: Boston Mills Press, 2006) ISBN 1550463993.