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BAY MILLS
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Mission Hill/Spectacle Lake Overlook. A delightful, easily missed spot with memorable scenic panoramas of the Point Iroquois Light, occasional freighters, and the Soo Locks. ... more

Monocle Lake. A well-stocked 172-acre lake with a beach, floating fishing dock, and 2-mile hiking trail ... more

Point Iroquois Light Station & Museum. Memorable 1870 lighthouse museum with furnished keeper's quarters, displays on lighthouse technology, navigational aids. Up from a beautiful beach. Climb the lighthouse tower for a great view of lake, shipping. ... more

Big Pine Picnic Area. A local favorite picnic site with huge pines, a fine Lake Superior beach with colorful stones ... more

Bay View Beach and Campground. You'll often have the sandy Lake Superior beach here to yourself ... more

Pendills Creek National Fish Hatchery. See the hundreds of thousands of lake trout growing to 5" to 8" when they are released in Lake Michigan and Huron ... more

Indian Fishing Historical Marker & roadside park. On a site with a sweeping Lake Superior beach, a marker tells the story of a Bay Mills fishing case ruling on the the U.S. Supreme Court decided that Indians never signed away their right to fish for a living. ... more

North Country Trail Segment. Enjoy a short walk on the multi-state hiking trail, traversing a swinging bridge and reaching Tahquamenon Bay ... more

BAY MILLS

Pendills Creek National Fish Hatchery

Lake trout stocked in the Great Lakes each year come from this hatchery and its subsidiary Hiawatha National Forest hatchery at nearby Raco. Long tanks called raceways are covered with galvanized steel roofs. Eggs go into egg-seeding programs in lakes Michigan and Huron. (In Lake Superior, native lake trout have been reproducing naturally well enough that stocking is no longer necessary.)

Here fry are reared for a year, until they are five to eight inches long. Then they are released. Visitors can enter the tank buildings and look down at the masses of little fish. The big, dark brood fish that used to be here have been moved to the Raco hatchery.

Displays and pamphlets at the visitor center here show eggs developing into fish. They tell the story of how parasitic sea lamprey from Lake Ontario nearly destroyed the Upper Great Lakes fishery in the 1930s before being partially controlled by a combination of lampricide chemicals and natural predators like the coho salmon.

On Lake Shore Rd. 4 miles west of Dollar Settlement and Forest Rd. #3154. (906) 437-5231. Open Mon-Fri 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Weekend outdoor visitation allowed, but visitor center is closed. Free. Wheelchair accessible.

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