Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
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Contact Information:
Route 1, Box 4
Bayfield, WI 54814
715-779-3397
http://www.nps.gov/apis/
Size: 69,372 acres
Visitation: 171,236 (2003)
Location: The headquarters visitor center is one block off WI 13 in Bayfield, Wisconsin. The visitor center and fishery exhibit at Little Sand Bay is accessible by road, 13 miles north of Bayfield. Meyers Road, off WI 13, 5 miles east of Cornucopia, offers lake access and a trailhead. Most other facilities are accessible only by water.
Description: Wisconsin's northernmost landscape juts out into Lake Superior as the scenic archipelago known as the Apostle Islands. Twenty-one picturesque islands and an 11-mile strip of adjacent Bayfield Peninsula along the south shore of Lake Superior comprise this national lakeshore. Features include pristine stretches of sand beach, sea caves, remnant old-growth forests, and the largest collection of lighthouses anywhere in the National Park System.
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Operating Hours:
The lakeshore is open all year.
History: Established on September 26, 1970.
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