Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
ORONTO CREEK at the County A bridge at Saxon Harbor is jammed with ice on Thursday morning. Within 24 hours, the creek broke open, however. Lake Superior was mostly ice-free as dozens of boats sailed out of the harbor on Friday.
The steady stream of pickup trucks towing boats to Saxon Harbor on Friday along Wisconsin 122 was a sign spring has arrived early on the Gogebic Range.
On the calendar, there's officially another week of winter left, but it seemed like mid-spring on Friday as temperatures reached the upper 50s.
There's still some ice in the harbor and the main boat landing was closed by the Iron County Forestry Department because ice is undermining the wooden dock there.
The other boat landing at the end of the parking lot across from the campgrounds was open, however, and the lake was as mild as glass, wi...
