Many thanks for all the suggestions. I've contacted Grand Portage Isle Royale Transportation - hopefully they can help out. Otherwise we'll rent from further afield and bring them, but we'd probably need some sort of transport trailer as well (we just have a minivan) so it might get complicated.

Oops, I waited too long to book a canoe rental at Rock Harbor for our IR trip -- they only have ones for two days, not the full time of our trip (July 25th to 30th). We're sailing from Copper Harbor so we'll be going to Rock Harbor, not Windigo.

Is there any alternative in terms of renting canoes ...

Hello,

We're a family of 5 with 3 teenage kids, and we've decided to do a family trip to a national park before the nest empties... Anyway we're all very active and my wife and I have some experience with camping, hiking, and canoeing, but haven't done much at all in the past 15+ years. Our kids ...