{"id":13757,"date":"2025-04-26T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T21:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13757"},"modified":"2025-06-02T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:47:20","slug":"isle-royale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/26\/isle-royale\/","title":{"rendered":"Isle Royale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/article\/how-to-visit-isle-royale-national-park?rid=AF14D696E6310E00948D67C8C3A3B488&amp;cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Compass_20250426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from National Geographic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Escape the crowds at the lower 48\u2019s most remote national park<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake Superior\u2019s Isle Royale, an archipelago of 400 islands, is one of the least visited national parks. Here&#8217;s why you should see this little known island wilderness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Stephen Starr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Isle Royale | Under the Radar Michigan Full Episode\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qdTfSgHljyA?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At a time when record crowds are seeing visitors to some U.S. national parks&nbsp;<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked to pre-book access<\/a>, Isle Royale National Park, an archipelago of around 400 islands on western Lake Superior, is the very definition of off the beaten track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Its main island is about 50 miles long and nine miles wide\u201419 times the size of Manhattan\u2014and sees less than one percent of the average number of visitors to Yosemite National Park when it opens to the public on around April 15 every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the least-visited national park in the continental U.S.,&nbsp;<a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Isle Royale National Park<\/a>&nbsp;is only reachable by ferry, private boat or seaplane from mainland Michigan and Minnesota.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a place where the only vehicles are canoes and kayaks, and moose, wolves, beavers and smaller animals are the sole year-round residents. For many, its attraction\u2014centered on its 36 campgrounds and 165 miles of back country trails\u2014lies in the fact that it\u2019s one of the few national parks with no instant Instagram gratification; cell phone coverage is patchy at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/travel\/article\/how-to-visit-isle-royale-national-park?rid=AF14D696E6310E00948D67C8C3A3B488&amp;cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Compass_20250426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Nat Geo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic Escape the crowds at the lower 48\u2019s most remote national park Lake Superior\u2019s Isle Royale, an archipelago of 400 islands, is one of the least visited national parks. Here&#8217;s why you should see this little known island wilderness. By Stephen Starr At a time when record crowds are seeing visitors to some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}