No Visitors Allowed To See Ice Caves At Apostle Islands National Lakeshore

Wisconsin Park Service officials say visitors won’t be allowed to go out to see the ice caves at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore again this year.  It has been four years since the public was able to view the spectacle.  There’s plenty of ice on Lake Superior, but state planners say it is fractured and rough near the caves.  The heavy snowfall is also insulating ice, meaning it is soft and slushy, instead of hard and solid.  Recent winters have been too warm for safe ice in that area.