Crowds of people are flocking to northwestern Wisconsin to trek on a frozen-over Lake Superior to reach dramatic ice caves accessible on foot for the first time in several years, courtesy of the ...

This winter's intense cold has brought a fringe benefit to people who live around southern Lake Superior ... frozen, sea caves of the Apostle Islands. It's the first time the lake's ice in ...

Occasionally the ice on Lake Superior makes it possible ... After hiking for a mile across the frozen expanse, we reached the first caves. Pillars of ice glistened in the sun.

Icicles glisten as throngs of visitors explore frozen sea caves, seen in the above ... and satellites show ice cover on Lake Superior, for anyone interested in the big picture.

But right now, for the first time in five years, you can walk to them across the frozen ... the caves in winter requires at least a 2 mile hike (round trip) on the ice of Lake Superior.

The ice caves along the Apostle Island National Lakeshore are closed. A ranger was there to turn away visitors on Saturday near the cordoned-off entrance to the trail to frozen Lake Superior at ...

Visitors must trek across the frozen surface of Lake Superior, and the ice has to be thick and stable before visitors are allowed to come. [Read the full story on the stunning ice caves.] ...

BAYFIELD (AP) - This winter's relentless cold is not keeping an unprecedented number of people from trekking on frozen Lake Superior to view the ice caves in northern Wisconsin.Julie Van Stappen ...

The breathtaking ice caves along the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore will likely be inaccessible this year due to low ice coverage on Lake Superior. On Friday, less than 5% of Lake Superior was ...

Ice-cave watchers are eagerly watching the Apostle Islands for a small window to safely walk across frozen Lake Superior and see the magnificent formations that blanket the red-brown cliffs and ...

(AP) - For the first time in five years, you can visit the Apostle Islands sea caves by walking across frozen Lake Superior.A Wisconsin Public Radio report says the ice is solid, although you ...

Lepaugh says the great part about exploring the frozen lake is that you never ... The ice is not yet thick enough on Lake Superior to visit the ice caves that formed there last year.