Isle Royale in Lake Superior is the least-visited national park.

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | July 20, 2004| | Copyright

Byline: Tom Uhlenbrock

COPPER HARBOR, Mich. _ Isle Royale National Park gets an average of 17,000 visitors a year. Yellowstone gets more than that on a summer afternoon.

But that's just fine with the backpackers, nature lovers, anglers and those lucky enough to still have "life leases" on cabins at the island park in northwestern Lake Superior. They'll tell you that more is definitely not merrier. The vast majority of the visitors to the lake's largest island disappear into its wilderness to see moose and loons and wildflowers, not people.

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