I hope you enjoy the photos of the Madeline Island Ice-road. These photos and more will be found in my book "On Thin Ice" due out this April. If you would like to purchase a "pre-sale" copy of this very special book you can do so by going to museum sales. I will add more ice-road photos over time so keep checking back.

     Early photo of Elmer Nelson standing beside his Ford Model "A". Note the tire chains on the rear tires and the line of trees on the ice.

     Car crossing a flooded Ice-road.

     Photo of car being raised up from the bottom by the Nelson Construction tug and barge. The driver of this vehicle had become stuck while driving across the Lake and walked the remainder of the way to Madeline. The next morning when Arnie and Ronnie Nelson searched for the car all they could find was an open hole. The car was located by divers in 130' of water.

     Whoops, this isn't the road! Photo of a car just off the Bayfield shore.