Wisconsin Boy Missing In Michigan's Porcupine Mountains: Officials

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SILVER CITY, MI — Officials are searching for an 8-year-old Wisconsin boy who went missing Saturday afternoon in a state park in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Nante Niemi was camping with family in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in the area of Pinkerton trail when he disappeared around 1 p.m. Saturday, his mother, Jessica Buerger, told WDIO-TV.

Officials said dozens of agencies from Michigan and Wisconsin are searching for the missing boy.

The boy is a student in the Hurley School District in Hurley, Wisconsin, where officials said they have two buses of volunteers waiting to go help search, according to a Facebook post.

"Many professional agencies from Wisconsin and Michigan have been employed throughout the area, and we are being told to please stay away from the area so they can best do their job," the post said.

The Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park is the largest state park in Michigan with over 60,000 acres of old-growth forest, waterfalls, Lake Superior shoreline, rivers, trails and ridges, according to the state's Department of Natural Resources.