Lighthouse Restaurant
The island's only full-service restaurant, with a breakfast buffet and à la carte dinner, featuring Great Lakes whitefish and walleye, and it will cook fish guests catch themselves.
Lighthouse Restaurant is at Rock Harbor Lodge on the east end of Isle Royale. It shares a kitchen with Greenstone Grill and is run by the national park's concessioner. Breakfast is a buffet; at dinner, servers take orders. Menu items include beer-battered lake whitefish and chips, cast-iron pan-seared Great Lakes walleye, New York strip steak, smoked whitefish spread, and miners' pie. The restaurant takes part in the Catch and Cook program, so fish guests catch while out on the water can be brought in and prepared for dinner. Supplies arrive by boat, so items occasionally run out, and whitefish isn't available every day. It operates only in summer, with a short service window; dinner runs roughly 17:30 to 19:30.
Opening hours
Summer only; breakfast about 7:00–8:30, dinner about 17:30–19:30 (check seasonal notices)
Nearby sights
- Rock Harbor
- Raspberry Island
- Tobin Harbor
- Lookout Louise
- Suzy's Cave
- Scoville Point
- Rock Harbor Lighthouse & Edisen Fishery
- Mount Ojibway Tower & Daisy Farm