- It operated year-round, summer and winter.
- It was built and operated first by Earl Sherman, then purchased and run by the Benner family.
- Customers could get hamburgers and hot drinks, and fish through the ice for perch.
- The Benners also managed an ice shanty village set up around the Ark.
- The Ark was shut down in 1963 after it nearly washed into Lake Michigan during a big storm, and due to the crash of the perch fishery from the lamprey eel.
Read more here, where I wrote about it for the White Lake Beacon in the winter of 2013.
What do you know about the Ark?
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Very interesting Tanya. Have ever considered writing a book about the White Lake area ?
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Great idea, Tom! My goal with the Everything White Lake blog is to catalogue and inventory all available information about White Lake in one place. Maybe that will become a book one day!
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We would ice skate to the Arc and buy hot chocolate.
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It sounds like fun! I wish we could do that now! Thanks for sharing, Sharon!
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I remember the Ark well. We used to skate from Bathing Beach to the Ark for Hot Chocolate. Boy, were we tired when we got back!!
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That sounds like a long round trip, Edie, but kind of exciting! Thanks for sharing your experience!
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