Basswood was also home to one of the many farming operations in the islands. The most successful, however, was on Sand Island, where there was a large enough year-round population (about 100 ...

Navigating the Apostle Islands National ... and the paddler must map out the shortest transits possible ... Our tour of the inner-ring Apostles stopped for Night 2 on steep Oak Island, ...

According to a local legend, Wisconsin's Apostle Islands were formed when a great "manitou," or a spirit in the tradition of the Indigenous Ojibwe people, pursued a deer to the edge of Lake Superior ...

The parks service said the photo showed the bear swimming from Oak Island to Stockton Island. The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is off the coast of Wisconsin in Lake Superior, almost directly ...