Whitefish Bay National Forest Scenic Byway

U.S. Forest Service

Point Iroquois Lighthouse which is open for tours.^[4][5] The lighthouse was built in 1870 and offers visitors a view of the Canadian shore at the top of its spiral staircase.^[6] After passing through the Point Iroquois area, FFH 42 turns southward to follow the shore line on Iroquois Road, terminating at the national forest boundary west of Brimley.^[4][5] The FFH 42 number is not signed along the roadway.^[7]

Federal Aid Highway Act of 1921.^[9] An earthen roadway was present through the area by 1936.^[10] In the beginning of 1937, the easternmost section around Point Iroquois was improved to a gravel road.^[11][12] Two years later, the westernmost section from Naomikong Point to the junction with M-123 was improved to gravel.^[13][14] The entire road surface was improved to gravel by 1945.^[15] Paving started on the road in the mid-1950s on the eastern end.^[16][17]

Michigan State Highway Department under contract to the USFS. The road, at the time, was intended to be part of a longer scenic highway that would connect a proposed lakeshore road through the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore with roads running along Whitefish Bay and the St. Marys River south of Sault Ste. Marie.^[18] The western end was realigned and paved in the late 1970s, moving the roadway closer to Tahquamenon Bay west of Naomikong Point. The former roadway was removed in the process.^[19][20] The last section was paved in 1987 between the two paved sections at Naomikong and Iroquois points.^[21]