Amberg is the town in Marinette County for the heaty, outdoor loving vacationist
Amberg is the town in Marinette County for the hearty, outdoor loving vacationist…the fisherman who thrills to the challenge of a fighting trout in the swift flowing waters of a secluded trout stream…the canoeist who glides over the wide waters of the Menominee River between forst laden banks…the camper who pitches his tent along the tumbling rapids of the untamed Pike River.
Situated in the northern half of Marinette County, Amberg is bounded on the east by the “power stretch” of the Menominee River. U.S. Highway 141 is its main artery. To the north is the town of Beecher, to the south the tow of Wausaukee and to the west, Athelstane.
Within these boundaries, every holiday seeker from the summer long sportsman to the Sunday afternoon picnicker will find his ideal spot.
Just off Highway 141, on the Pike River, you’ll find Dave’s falls…truly one of Marinette County’s most beautiful water settings. The falls themselves roar and surge against a backdrop of towering granite bluffs and a deep, green curtain of northern pine. The colorful rock that is predominant in Amberg has earned this town more than its richly deserved reputation as a vacation haven.
Northern and walleyed pike, bass, perch and muskies swim the Menominee and lucky is the fisherman who can make his vacation complete by tossing his line here. One of the best fishing spots on the Menominee, in the town of Amberg, is the fabulous Sixty Islands on the southern edge of town. Here you’ll find many secluded “holes” between the islands that dot this part of the river.
There’s an old lumber tale about Sixty Islands that may be taken with tongue in cheek, or accepted. During one of the early logging drives, so the story goes, millions of giant timbers roared downstream on exceptionally swollen waters of the Menominee. A river driver swore to his co-workers that when the logs reached Sixty Islands, they took a few dozen small islets with them… and pointed to some rocks showing above the water as the only remaining bits of land. But then this IS Paul Bunyan Country. The Pike and the Menominee rivers were both black with logs during the lumber baron era of the late 1800’s.