Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Forestry committee recommends new Saxon Harbor campground site

By RICHARD JENKINS

[email protected]

HURLEY - With the Federal Emergency Management Agency's approval to move the campground at Saxon Harbor, the Iron County Forestry and Parks Committee voted Tuesday to recommend the Iron County Board of Supervisors choose a new location east of the harbor.

County Forestry and Parks Administrator Eric Peterson laid out two potential sites on the property for the campground.

"Location one is approximately 3.3 acres and is directly east of the harbor on top of the hill. Location two is about 3.8 acres and it's the next ravine - or hilltop - to the...