Tag: tourism

Sub to Be Tourist Site?

A Lake Superior-based yacht company is selling a Soviet attack
submarine… and it might make some community the proud owner of a
unique tourist attraction. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Mike
Simonson has more:

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A Lake Superior-Based yacht company is sellin a Soviet attack submarine. And it might

make some community the proud owner of a unique tourist attraction. The Great Lakes

Radio Consortium’s Mike Simonson reports:


Not surprisingly, this is probably the only Soviet “whisky-class” attack submarine on

the market. A steal at $495,000, says Richard Rose-Oleck of Owen’s Yacht in Duluth.

The 250 foot sub is docked in Sweden, where it’s used as a mueseum. but Rose-Oleck

would like to see soemone or some community in this region buy it and move it for

display.


“I would love to see it in the Great Lakes. Number one, it would last longer, and I

think it would be an interesting exhibit.”


The fresh water in the Great Lakes would help preserve the diesel-powered sub. It no

longer has any of its twelve torpedoes, but the engines work, and the 1955 vintage

craft has been restored.


The submarine has been on the market since December. There’ve been serious inquiries,

including one from Duluth-Superior, the only one from the Great Lakes region. Another

offer is from a private company which would use it as a corporate boat, giving new

meaning to the term, “hostile takeover.”


For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I’m Mike Simonson in Superior, Wisconsin.

Saving Niagara’s Natural Beauty

A historian believes one of the world’s most visited natural sites is
being ruined by tourist development. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s
Lester Graham reports that instead of new hotels and casinos…one man is
pushing for an appreciation of the natural beauty of Niagara Falls:

Shipwreck Tours Take Off

In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula there’s a way to see shipwrecks withoutgetting wet. Grand Island Shipwreck Tours has the only glassbottomedboat operation on the U.S. side of the Great Lakes. The Great LakesRadio Consortium’s Michelle Corum reports:

Community Keeps Growth in Check

When the Chicago Tribune named Bayfield, Wisconsin as the best small town inthe Midwest last year, there was celebration and some reservation. Thispristine gateway to Lake Superior has seen steady growth since then. But agrassroots effort by residents of that area is trying to keep expansionunder control. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium Mike Simonson has more:

Not a Place for Weenies

Newsweek magazine has named Michigan’s Isle Royale National Park on Lake Superior as one of the seven best places in the world…to get away from it all. As the Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Mike Simonson reports, this isolated island is one of the least-visited places in the national park system:

Northern Great Lakes Center Opens

A new Great Lakes interpretive center opens May 30th on the south shoreof Lake Superior just west of Ashland, Wisconsin. One-hundred andtwenty-five thousand people are expected to visit the center each year.The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Eric Schubring has thestory: