This is where you can find websites, helpful phone numbers, friends groups and cooperating associations, and, sometimes, books related to the park.

Isle Royale National Park: www.nps.gov/isro

Houghton Visitor Center

Location: 800 E. Lakeshore Drive, Houghton, MI 49931
April 17 - May 31: Monday-Friday 10:00 am - 4:00pm
June 1 - September 15: Monday-Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT, Saturday 10 am - 5 pm EDT
September 16 - October 31: Monday-Friday 10:00 am - 4:00pm, Closed Federal Holidays
November 1 - April 16: Closed

Rock Harbor Visitor Center

Location: Northeast end of Isle Royale National Park
May, June, and September: Reduced schedule; contact the park for updated hours
June 3 - September 21: Daily 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT

Windigo Visitor Center

Location: Southwest end of Isle Royale National Park
May, June, September, and October: Reduced schedule; contact the park for updated hours
June 3 - September 21: Daily 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT

For various maps, click here.

Dogs, cats, and other mammals are not allowed on the island. For more detailed information, click here.

Fees

Isle Royale National Park no longer accepts cash for park entrance fees. Only credit card transactions will be accepted. Rock Harbor Lodge and its stores in Rock Harbor and Windigo accept both cash and credit card payments.

• $7 per person per day / $49 per person per week – this includes the day you arrive and the day you depart. Children under 15 are exempt from daily entrance fees.
• Isle Royale National Park Season Pass: $60
• America the Beautiful Annual Pass (including Senior Passes): FREE - $80

You can pay your entrance fee online prior to coming to Isle Royale National Park. If you already have a season or federal pass there is nothing you need to do in advance. Bring your pass with you to the Island.

If not paid in advance, entrance fees can be processed at the Rock Harbor, Windigo, or Houghton visitor centers. Fee payments can only be made during the following fee collection hours.

Friends Organizations and Cooperating Associations

National Parks of Lake Superior Foundation (NPLSF) is the only official non-profit 501(c) (3) fund raising partner of the National Park Service (NPS) for all five US national park sites on Lake Superior, providing financial support for projects and programs that preserve the natural resources and cultural heritage of these five national parks.

Helpful Books

Minong: The Good Place – Ojibwe And Isle Royale

Minong (the Ojibwe name for Isle Royale) is the search for the history of the Ojibwe people's relationship with this unique island in the midst of Lake Superior. Cochrane uses a variety of sources: Ojibwe oral narratives, recently rediscovered Jesuit records and diaries, reports of the Hudson's Bay post at Fort William, newspaper accounts, and numerous records from archives in the United States and Canada, to understand this relationship to a place. What emerges is a richly detailed account of Ojibwe activities on Minong―and their slow waning in the latter third of the nineteenth century.

Isle Royale National Park Foot Trails & Water Routes

Longtime Michigan trail evangelist Jim DuFresne explores the park's 200 square miles of wilderness and 400 islands by detailing 165 miles of trails, chains of inland lakes to paddle and portage, and miles of rugged coastline to explore by kayak. This guidebook is the recognized "backcountry bible" to the park, providing everything you need to know for an island adventure including details on the park's history, flora, and fauna; fishing opportunities; complete descriptions of trails and waterways including mileage, difficulty, and amenities; overview of all campgrounds; detailed full-color maps; and full-color photos throughout.

Images Of America: Isle Royale

This history of Isle Royale traces almost 5,000 years of human efforts to harvest its natural resources. From the Paleo-Indians who extracted native copper to the 19th-century miners, fishermen, farmers, and sportsmen, this isle apart has been visited, mined, and plundered for centuries. Under the protection of the National Park Service since 1940, the island is returning to the natural regime that preceded the arrival of the first humans. Moose, wolves, and bald eagles now share the island with low-impact campers and boaters. The reader will visit the lighthouses, steamships, fish camps, and resorts and the people of the last two centuries who left their footprints on this jewel of Lake Superior.