An 8-year-old Wisconsin boy is missing in the Porcupine Mountains area in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

An 8-year-old Wisconsin boy is lacking within the Porcupine Mountains space in Michigan’s Higher Peninsula, the Hurley College District stated in a Fb put up Sunday morning.

The boy’s mother informed WDIO that he was tenting with household on the massive and little carp space of Pinkerton path when he went lacking round 1 p.m. Saturday.

Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park, which is Michigan’s largest, has 60,000 acres of old-growth forest, waterfalls, Lake Superior shoreline, rivers, trails and ridges, in line with the state’s Division of Pure Sources web site. The park is a well-liked vacation spot for tenting, mountain climbing, snowmobiling, fishing and extra, the web site stated.

In a Sunday Fb put up, the State Park stated: “Concerning the scenario at the moment occurring within the Porkies,” dozens of companies from throughout the UP and Wisconsin are there. To “restrict the chaos,” volunteers from the general public “shouldn’t come out presently.” The put up didn’t specify “the scenario.”

The college district’s put up stated that individuals had been calling them and asking if there was “something they will do to assist with the search and rescue.”

“{Many professional} companies from Wisconsin and Michigan have been employed all through the realm, and we’re being informed to please avoid the realm to allow them to finest do their job,” the put up stated.

The college district has two buses of volunteers on standby prepared to assist with the search if wanted, in line with the put up.

The Journal Sentinel has reached out to Michigan State Police for extra info.