[1] Built in 1913 as a railway bridge, it has carried road traffic since 1946.
Goat Island Road has cul de sac that ends on the northwest corner of the island and separate by a narrow section of the North Channel from the a dirt trail leading off from Highway 6 on Great La Cloche Island.
The former Highway 6 cross was cut off after the roadway was re-aligned to the east end of the island in 1998.
A small tank farm is used by E. B. Eddy to store chemicals for their Espanola, Ontario plant and Goat Island Range is a golf driving range is the only business of the island.
There are two transformer stations found off Goat Island Road and Highway 6.