The community is located on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

Temperance River State Park and the Superior Hiking Trail are both nearby.

[2] The Schroeder Lumber Company Bunkhouse, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, stands near the town.

At the mouth of the Cross River is the place where Frederic Baraga safely washed ashore on a boat during a storm in 1846.

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