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GRAND ISLAND
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INTEREST
Williams Landing. The Grand Island ferry lands at the island's original fur-trading hub, recalled by excellent displays. A hike or bike ride of less than two miles to the Murray Bay picnic area and beach passes a historic cottage and cemetery ...
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Trout Bay. An excellent place for kayaking and camping, with a beach, sandstone bluffs, and sea caves---all visible from an overlook platform ...
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North Beach. A memorable spot on the island where a crescent beach, the mouth of a creek, 200-foot cliffs, and the Great Lakes' highest lighthouse ...
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Mather Beach. Scenic rock shelves overlook a nice pebble beach at the outlet of nearby Echo Lake. Walk down perhaps a half mile to reach Waterfall Beach ...
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Mather Beach
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This beach is at the outlet of Echo Lake Creek on the island's west shore. Rock shelves dominate the scenic lakeshore here. The beach is reached by a stairway; it's a wonderful place to swim if the water has warmed up. Tthe privately owned Mather Lodge can be seen across the creek. It was the personal hunting retreat of Willliam Gwinn Mather, the chief operating officer of Cleveland-Cliffs Iron in Marquette. CCI owned the island from 1901 until decades after his death in 1951.
Less than a mile inland down a dirt road, 228-acre ECHO LAKE, shallow and alkaline, has catch-and-release fishing for smallmouth bass.
Go back up the stairway and walk south perhaps half a mile on West Rim Trail to reach the overlook platform at WATERFALL BEACH, another pretty pebble beach reached by a stairway.
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