Wabigama is a private colony situated on the eastern bank of Elk Lake in Rapid City, Michigan.
[2] Founding members were leaders with a common interest in academic and applied research including (among others) medicine, physiology, and sociology.
The club has offered anonymity from the local community, refuge from their public life and some of the few remaining wilderness areas on private land.
The camp is located less than five miles (8 km) from one of Northern Michigan's best-known vacation areas, on the south end of Torch Lake.
Some the better-known members include Arno B. Luckhardt (MD, PhD Physiology), John Crout (chemical engineer), Carl Dragstedt (M.D.