McCargoe Cove & Minong Mine
McCargoe Cove
A long, narrow lake inlet cutting about 4 km inland from the island's north shore, near the 19th-century Minong copper mine ruins and prehistoric Indigenous copper pits.
McCargoe Cove is a long, narrow lake inlet extending about 4 km inland from the north shore of Isle Royale. A campground and dock sit at its head, and the ferry Voyageur II stops here on its island circuit. A walk of about 1 km from the bay leads to the Minong copper mine ruins, where miners harvested native copper in the 1870s. Mine pits, slag heaps, and remnants of rail tracks can still be seen. Thousands of years earlier, Native Americans also mined copper here using stone hammers, leaving shallow pits behind. The cove is the eastern end of the Minong Ridge Trail and a common campsite for hikers coming down from the Greenstone Ridge. Loons and river otters are often seen in the area.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Chippewa Harbor
- Mount Ojibway Tower & Daisy Farm
- Minong Ridge Trail
- Rock Harbor Lighthouse & Edisen Fishery
- Greenstone Ridge Trail
- Siskiwit Lake
- Suzy's Cave
- Tobin Harbor