Sault Ste. Marie Driving Tour

This self-guided tour takes you back in time to the days of the "Great Depression," when folks were hungry and jobs were few.

Young men looked to the newly created Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as an opportunity to earn money to help feed their families.

In creating the CCC, President Franklin D. Roosevelt saw it as a way to put such men to work while also revitalizing the country's ravaged natural resources.

It was natural that much of the CCC work centered on National Forests like the Hiawatha (this zone of the Forest was known as the Marquette National Forest back then).

On the Sault Ste. Marie Ranger District (then the Raco District) are a number of CCC sites, including camps, work projects and plantations.