| Whitefish Point | |
| Bring the whole gang to Whitefish point this summer, a National Historic Site marking the vital entry way to the Icy waters of Lake Superior and featuring an 80-mile stretch of rugged shoreline that has earned it the ominous title as “Lake Superior’s Shipwreck Coast”. Whitefish point is also the location of a Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum that will allow you to visualize the ultimate beauty and power of Lake Superior as never seen before. |
Whitefish Point |
| The museum
is open every day from May to November, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Admission is $8.50 for adults, $5.50 for children and $23.00 per family.
During your visit, museum staff and interpreters are always ready and
willing to answer any questions you may have about the historical
significance of Whitefish point or the many artifacts found within the
Shipwreck Museum. The museum is dedicated to the perils of nautical
travel in the Great Lakes, and is the only museum of its kind. Inside
you will learn why Lake Superior has earned the reputation as being the
most treacherous of all the Great Lakes, home to ice water mansions and
sunken ships galore. Throughout the gallery you will see exhibits and
artifacts including the bell from the renowned Edmund Fitzgerald, a
memorial to the sailors and ships that were lost to the waters of
Superior. Whitefish Point also features a guided lighthouse tour of Michigan’s oldest active lighthouse on Lake Superior, fully restored and initially constructed in 1861. On the tour you will hear first hand accounts of the different lighthouse keepers and their families who have manned the duplex style building while tending the light. See period furnishings, artifacts and expressive panels that have been salvaged from the days of the U.S. Lighthouse Service. In addition to the museum and lighthouse, whitefish point also offers a bird observatory documenting the chronology and quantity of migrating birds through the Whitefish Peninsula Migration Corridor. Large concentrations of migrating birds like Michigan songbirds, raptors and water birds pass through the Upper Peninsula every year. The Migration corridor features natural terrain that attracts thousands of birds every spring and fall, making for spectacular bird watching and providing tremendous opportunities to study and monitor bird populations. I would suggest a visiting time of 3-4 hours. For more information on Whitefish Point or the bird observatory, feel free to visit them on their website www.shipwreckmuseum.com and www.wpbo.org |
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