Description
This is the Apostle Islands sea cave tour. The one in every postcard, every travel magazine, every photograph you have seen of Lake Superior’s southern shore. Meyers Beach is where the mainland sandstone cliffs rise straight out of the water into a continuous gallery of caves, arches, and chambers carved by waves over the course of half a billion years.
The Half Sea Caves Tour focuses on the most dramatic section of the cave system, where the largest arches and deepest chambers cluster along less than a mile of shoreline. We spend the bulk of the trip inside the rock rather than transiting between caves, which means more time for photos, more time floating beneath cathedral arches with the lake echoing off the chamber walls, and more time tracing the colors of mineral stain that line the sandstone ceilings.
The mainland sea caves are the centerpiece of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Paddling them in a kayak is the only way to experience them at scale: small enough to slip through arches that boat tours cannot enter, low enough to drift inside chambers where the rock curves close overhead. Travelers come from across the country specifically for this stretch of water.
Trip details
4 miles round trip
2 hours on the water, around 3.5 hours total with safety briefing and gear fitting
Tandem and triple kayaks
Available May 23 through September 8
Age 5 and up, minimum weight 40 lbs
Children under 14 or under 115 lbs paddle the center seat of a triple between two adult paddlers
Launch from Meyers Road near Cornucopia, Wisconsin
Meyers Beach is on the open lake, so we monitor the marine forecast and confirm conditions the day before your tour. If the lake is not safe to paddle, we reroute to a sheltered alternate sea cave location at the same time, or issue a full refund.
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