Search underway for overdue hiker at Isle Royale National Park

Rangers at Isle Royale National Park are searching for an overdue hiker.

Family members told the Detroit Free Press that the missing man is 70-year-old Craig Berg of Royal Oak, Mich., who was on a more-than-weeklong solo hike on the large Lake Superior island.

Park Service officials said that Berg was scheduled to take the Ranger III ferry back to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula last Saturday — but family members reported Sunday that he did not arrive home.

“Search operations have been ongoing since that report,” the Park Service reported Thursday morning. Authorities have not asked for help from the public in the search.

Isle Royale, located off the northeast tip of Minnesota, is about 45-miles long and 9-miles wide. Aside from two hubs of visitor services at either end of Isle Royale, there are no roads or motor vehicles across the wilderness island.

The park has a network of rugged trails, including the Greenstone Ridge Trail that spans nearly the entire length of the island.

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