[6] North Fox (45°28′45″N 85°46′38″W / 45.4792°N 85.7771°W / 45.4792; -85.7771 (North Fox Island)) is the smaller of the two islands, 3.32 square kilometres (3,320,000 m2; 820 acres) in area, roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) wide by 1 mile (1.6 km) long.

North Fox Island has an operational public 3,001-foot-long by 100-foot-wide (914m x 30m) grass airstrip as of August 2023, making it accessible by general aviation.

[10] The proprietor of the island, Francis Shelden,[11] with help from Dyer Grossman, Adam Starchild, and Gerald Richards, created a fraudulent charity they named Brother Paul's Children's Mission as a cover to fly boys in Shelden's private plane to his island retreat.

[15] The crimes have long been suspected to have ties to the Oakland County Child Killer case, which involved the unsolved murders of four children in 1976–77.

suspect Christopher Busch was a known subscriber to the North Fox Island ring, and investigators also believe that the perpetrator of the Oakland County killings could have been someone who victimized the group.

[16][17][18] South Fox Island (45°24′56″N 85°50′47″W / 45.4156°N 85.8463°W / 45.4156; -85.8463 (South Fox Island)) is 13.89 square kilometres (5.36 sq mi; 3,430 acres) in area, and about 5 miles (8.0 km) long and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide.

[20] The Fox Island Lighthouse Association (FILA), a non-profit organization, was formed in 2004 to aid in preservation of the light station structures.

South Fox Island boasts some of the most spectacular freshwater maritime scenery in the world, including towering dunes, virgin cedars, and untouched beaches.

The island includes a cemetery where members of the Grand Traverse Band of Native Americans are currently buried.

These tribes are also known as Anishinaabeg (adjectival: Anishinaabe) and are a group of culturally related indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States.

From this history and engagement with their land comes cultural stories that have been recorded by Jane Willetts Ettawageshik.

[25] This story tells of a young Anishinaabe woman who comes of age and is told to seek her sacred vision.

After 10 days, she comes back to the village knowing her sacred vision and eventually the young woman runs away with her dog.

The young woman finds an abandoned island and mates with her dog and has dog/human hybrid children.

The Anishinaabe warriors go back to their village and tell the woman's older brother about his sister.