Michigan’s Island Secret: Tooker’s Island, Isle Royale
It’s a Michigan island getaway that only a select few know about. It’s Tooker’s Island, one of the tiny islands that surround Isle Royale.
When it was an unnamed isle, it was purchased by S.C. Tooker from Chicago in the early 1900s. In 1908, Tooker and Peter Solem built a boathouse and small cottage, and the Tooker family would come spend their summers there year after year.
After a few years, Tooker wanted more. Soon, a main house, log cabin, extra boathouse, engine house, pumphouse, tool shed, three outhouses, and a dock were all completed in 1928.
The park service took over the land on March 14, 1940, the 1908 boathouse burned down in 1956, and today all original structures no longer exist except for a camp cabin and dock, and the island welcomes campers as Tookers Island Campground.
It is an extremely isolated and little-known destination ...but now YOU know.
Part 19- Tookers Island, Isle Royale National Park, Lake Superior.
Tookers Island
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