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In 2014 and 2015 the Apostle Islands Ice Caves drew thousands of people to the icy shores of Lake Superior.
There won’t be a chance of that this year.
Despite the recent cold snap, the National Park Service says the lake ice isn’t stable enough to allow people to walk out and view the ice caves.
Apostle Islands Resource Management Chief Julie Van Stappen says we need weeks of cold to create ice that extends from Bayfield to the northshore of Lake Superior.
MODIS imagery of the ice cover on Lake Superior in 2014.
Credit Apostle Islands National Lakeshore
“The ideal conditions for good ice is cold, calm, with very little snow. So that’s that situation we had in 2014 and that really cold weather started very early. We were getting ice as early as December,” said Van Stappen.