Isle Royale National Park
Lodging & Dining
Rock Harbor Lodge
The Rock Harbor Lodge, located on the northeast corner of Isle Royale National Park, is the only lodging facility on the Island. We invite you to use Rock Harbor Lodge as a base to explore the park.
The following services are provided by the Rock Harbor Lodge:
Lodge Rooms
Sixty rooms are available; each accommodates four persons and offers a private bath. Each room provides a Lake Superior view.
Housekeeping Rooms
Twenty duplex cottages with kitchenettes accommodates six and offers a private bath. The room is furnished with utensils, dishware, double bed, and two bunk beds.
Gift Shop and Dockside Store
The gift shop offers handcrafted gifts, apparel, photo supplies, postcards, and souvenirs. The store offers groceries, freeze dried foods, daily fishing licenses, fishing tackle, stove fuel, camping, hiking, and boating accessories, showers, laundry facilities, and sundries.
Dining Room and Greenstone Grill
The dining room offers hearty meals, including fresh Lake Trout. Visitors are welcome for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The grill is open daily.
Marina and Water Taxi
The marina offers 450 feet of dock space in Rock Harbor, accommodating boats up to 65 feet. Electrical, fresh water hook-up, sewage pump-out, gasoline and diesel fuel, motorboat, canoe, and kayak rental available. Water taxi service can drop off or pick up visitors, canoes, or kayaks at many island docks.
Fishing Charters and Sightseeing
Charters are fully equipped and troll the reefs on the northeast part of the Island. Sightseeing trips travel to different island destinations. Some involve a short hike with a ranger.
Windigo Store and Marina
The store offers groceries, cold sandwiches, camping supplies, stove fuel, daily fishing licenses and tackle, gifts and photo supplies. The marina offers gasoline, sewage pump-out, and motorboat, canoe, and kayak rental. Shower and laundry facilities are also available.
Isle Royale In Depth
News from the Parks
Light Pollution Harms Not Just Stargazers
December 2, 2008 - 1:03pm
For students of astronomy, Sunday and Monday night is the equivalent of a World Cup Final, a new Mac operating system, and a Zeppelin reunion show all rolled into one. That’s because, as Horizons guest blogger Pete Spotts noted in his post Sunday, Jupiter, Venus, and the moon will gather to direct a lopsided frown at North America, an arrangement that won’t happen again for another 44 years.
December 2, 2008 - 1:03pm
For students of astronomy, Sunday and Monday night is the equivalent of a World Cup Final, a new Mac operating system, and a Zeppelin reunion show all rolled into one. That’s because, as Horizons guest blogger Pete Spotts noted in his post Sunday, Jupiter, Venus, and the moon will gather to direct a lopsided frown at North America, an arrangement that won’t happen again for another 44 years.
Tourists Bite on ‘Twilight’ Vampire Tours of Forks, Washington
December 2, 2008 - 12:59pm
Fans of the hit movie “Twilight,” inspired by Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series, are swarming tiny Forks on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where the novels are set, and checking out “Twilight”-themed tours, hotel packages and even food.
December 2, 2008 - 12:59pm
Fans of the hit movie “Twilight,” inspired by Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series, are swarming tiny Forks on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where the novels are set, and checking out “Twilight”-themed tours, hotel packages and even food.
Crowds Observe World AIDS Day In GG Park
December 2, 2008 - 12:56pm
People from across the country gathered in Golden Gate Park's National AIDS Memorial Grove Monday to observe the 20th annual World AIDS Day.
December 2, 2008 - 12:56pm
People from across the country gathered in Golden Gate Park's National AIDS Memorial Grove Monday to observe the 20th annual World AIDS Day.
Grounded in God, Green and Glaciers
December 2, 2008 - 12:37pm
Remember when Arizona Sen. John McCain criticized spending millions of taxpayer dollars to fund the DNA of grizzly bears in Montana during one of the presidential debates? “That’s us,” said David Restivo, a Roberts Wesleyan College alumnus and visual information specialist at Glacier National Park in Montana.
December 2, 2008 - 12:37pm
Remember when Arizona Sen. John McCain criticized spending millions of taxpayer dollars to fund the DNA of grizzly bears in Montana during one of the presidential debates? “That’s us,” said David Restivo, a Roberts Wesleyan College alumnus and visual information specialist at Glacier National Park in Montana.
Smokies' Formation Began 500 Million to 600 Million Years Ago
December 2, 2008 - 12:35pm
As the Great Smoky Mountains National Park prepares to celebrate its 75th year, students of history and geology are pondering questions that go back much farther than the park's creation in the 1930s. The most fascinating queries to them concern the actual formation of the mountains, their age and topography.
December 2, 2008 - 12:35pm
As the Great Smoky Mountains National Park prepares to celebrate its 75th year, students of history and geology are pondering questions that go back much farther than the park's creation in the 1930s. The most fascinating queries to them concern the actual formation of the mountains, their age and topography.
