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Explore Primeval Forests
Stands of old-growth forest are clustered around many of the Apostle Islands lighthouses. No one was allowed to cut trees around the lighthouse except for the lighthouse keepers, who used small quantities of wood for fuel. The inadvertent (and fortunate) result is that these primeval forests survived the heavy logging carried out elsewhere. You can wander through mystical and mythical stands of 300-year-old hemlock bearded with moss, ancient cedar, and towering white pine. The one-mile South Landing Trail on Devils Island snakes its way through a primeval boreal forest of paper birch and balsam fir.

Go Lighthouse Hopping
The eldest lighthouse stations on the Apostle Islands can be found at Michigan Island (1857) and Long Island (1858). The Raspberry Island light station was completed in 1863 and marks the west channel through the islands. The 90-foot whitewashed brick lighthouse tower at Outer Island was built in 1874 and sits on an impressive 40-foot red clay bluff above Lake Superior. The 44-foot tower at Sand Island was built from locally quarried brownstone in 1881. And in 1891, the lighthouse at Devils lsland was lit, completing an impressive circuit of lights.

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