Recreation

Whatever your interests unsurpassed beauty awaits you during your winter vacation in the U.P. Jay's Resort is right on beautiful Thousand Island Lake. Named for its size and many islands, Thousand Island Lake is spring-fed, clear and deep, the largest of the famous Cisco Chain of 15 Lakes. The Cisco Chain abounds with walleye, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, northern pike, lake trout, musky, and pan fish. All 15 lakes and 271 miles of wooded scenic shoreline are accessible by boat.

Only a mile and a half away from Jay's Resort is the Sylvania Wilderness Area of the Ottawa National Forest. It offers 21,000 acres of virgin timber and over 30 additional lakes and streams. Sylvania offers canoeing, swimming, picnicing, hunting, fishing, hiking, and unsurpasses natural scenic beauty.

Animals that may be seen in the wild include the white-tailed deer, black bear, raccoon, beaver, skunk, otter, muskrat, porcupine, coyete, fox, mink, chipmunk, and squirrel. A variety of water and forest birds, including the great American Bald Eagle, osprey, loon, heron, hawks, and owls, may be seen in their natural habitats.

Other attractions include Lake Superior, the breathtaking Porcupine Mountains with their Lake of the Clouds, Lake Gogebic, and Agate and Bond Falls.

A fourteen foot Lund aluminum boat is furnished with each cottage. Deluxe fishing boat packages, a pontoon boat, motors, additional boats and canoes are available for rent. Licenses, bait, gasoline and oil can be purchased at the resort.

Recreational facilities on site include swings, merry-go-round and climbing gym for the kids and a horseshoe pit, picnic areas and swimming for the young and old alike. A golf course and quality restaurants are close by.

In the winter snowmobilers have access to the Western U.P. trail system directly from their door and cross-country skiers can enjoy miles and miles of cross-country trails in the nearby Sylvania Wilderness Area of the Ottawa National Forest. The 5 downhill ski resorts of Big Snow Country are about an hour away. And for those really rugged fishermen there's the chilling sport of Ice Fishing!