IRKPA Membership Meeting and Events to be held in the Keweenaw: July 24 & 25
Start planning a trip now to your favorite national park. Your purchases help support Isle Royale and Keweenaw Parks.
Isle Royale National Park
Try the value package
designed
for your trip:
Hiking & Canoeing Package
 $26.00
Includes the Trails Illustrated map (each
side of the map shows one half of the island), the book Isle Royale National Park: Foot Trails
and Water Routes, and the park checklists of birds, mammals and rocks.
 Fishing Package
$25.00
Large Mailing Tube $4.00-add only one for rolled chart(s)
Includes the Isle Navigational Chart, the book, The Fishes of Isle Royale, and Isle Royale fishing
regulations and the Aquatic Invasive Species brochure.
To receive your chart neatly rolled, be sure to
add the mailing tube-if you are ordering more than chart/poster, select
the largest tube from the items you are ordering-most orders can be rolled
in just one medium or large tube.
Or select individual items to make your trip
perfect,
more items are available from our full catalog.
Exploring
Isle Royale Video
$17.95 - VHS
$21.95 - DVD
This orientation video produced by the National Park Service shows how to best
enjoy the Island's many attributes, including its trails, lakes and campsites.
Winner of the 1995 Michigan Outdoor Writers Association Best Outdoor Travel Program. 28 minutes.
Trails Illustrated Map
$9.95
Revised in 2006. Complete topographic map includes valuable wilderness
tips and Leave No Trace guidelines, along with updated trails, trailheads, points
of interest, campgrounds and much more. Printed on waterproof,
tear-resistant material with a plastic coating for extreme durability. Measures
4" x 9" folded and 25" x 37" fully opened,
with one half of Isle Royale on each side of the map. Scale = 1:50,000.
Foot Trails & Water Routes (Isle Royale National Park)
by Jim DuFresne
$15.95
Third Edition! Includes expanded, up-to-date information on trails, portages,
and campsites as well as the island's flora and fauna. All new photographs. 175
pages.
 The Belle Isle Journals
Written by Isle Royale visitors
Editing and Photography by Carl Ter Haar
$10.95
New! In 2002, Dave Herbster, the Belle Isle volunteer
campground host, put spiral bound notebooks in all the campground shelters
with the following
message:
"Welcome to Belle Isle Campground! We hope your stay here is an enjoyable one.
Please use this notebook to express your thoughts, feelings and concerns about
Belle Isle and in general, your stay on Isle Royale. We appreciate you writing
in this notebook, and not on the walls of the shelter. At the end of the season,
your comments will be used to improve your
next visit to Isle Royale. Thank you. Your Campground Host." This book contains
some of those journal entries made by Isle Royale visitors. Beautiful color
photos illustrating scenic Isle Royale and its surrounding Lake Superior waters
are provided by the Editor, Carl Ter Haar. 21 pages.
 Island Life: An Isle Royale Nature Guide
by Ted Gostomski and Janet Marr
$19.95
A complete Isle Royale nature guide
that describes all the common flora and fauna of the island in a full color,
compact book. Perfect for your backpack or bookshelf. 168 pages.
Mac's Pocket
Guide Isle Royale
by Mountaineers Books
$5.95
Full color pocket guide for mammals and birds of Isle Royale.
Minong - The Good Place:
Ojibwe and Isle Royale
by Timothy Cochrane
$24.95
New! "At last, an accurate account of the North Shore
Ojibwe's relationship with Isle Royale, or Minong - the good place. We now have
a clear view of the historic Ojibwe use of Isle Royale - a subject that has
been ignored, forgotten, and corrupted for far too long. Cochrane does an excellent
job
of giving the source and finding out about Ojibwe history from the relatives
and descendents of the groups who were actually involved and are still connected
to the island today." - Liz Valencia, Historian, Isle Royale National Park. Paper,
285 pages.
Ecological Studies of Wolves on Isle Royale
by Rolf O. Peterson and John A. Vucetich
2009 ~ $4.95
2008 ~ $4.95
2007 ~ $3.95
2006 ~ $3.95
2005 ~ $3.95
2004 ~ $3.95
Other past editions ~ $3.95 (previous
years are available - be sure to state what year(s) in the special instructions when you checkout.
Annual reports from the National Park Service winter study on Isle Royale. Each issue includes the latest information
on the wolf - moose populations on the island, as well as information on other wildlife and weather conditions. Paper, 16 pages.
Winter Study 2009: Notes from the Field
by John A. Vucetich
$5.95
John Vucetich's notes from the field from January 12th through March 2nd, 2009,
during winter study on Isle Royale. Paper, 40 pages
.
Check out what happened at Winter Study 2009 here.
Keweenaw National Historical
Park
Downtown Calumet: Guide to the Historic Mining Community
$1.50
This walking tour guide for downtown Calumet, MI, takes you on a journey through the
history and heritage of this historic mining community, with information and stories about
26 buildings and sites.
Industrial Calumet: A Guide to the Calumet & Hecla Copper Mining Company's Industrial Site
$1.25
A walking tour guide for the former surface operations of the Calumet & Hecla copper mining company
in Calumet, MI. The guide assists visitors in walking around the site by providing descriptions of the
remaining structures and their past functions.
KNHP Package ~ Buy both and save!
$2.50
Purchase the Downtown Calumet and the Industrial Calumet booklets together.
Links
Isle Royale National Park's website
Keweenaw National Historical Park's website
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