Toward Cadillac: bigger water and the trail north
Two lakes, an 1873 log-driving canal, and the North Country Trail — the bigger water a short drive north toward Cadillac.
Tag: Hiking
You’re walking the railroad that named the town
The nearest rail-trail to Sears is the Pere Marquette line itself — the railroad that put the town on the map, now asphalt over the old grade you can walk from the…
The Marsh They Built: Haymarsh State Game Area
A 6,700-acre state game area outside Barryton — a made lake, four flooded impoundments, pike and panfish, and birds worth the cold.
The Martiny Chain and Haymarsh, nearby
Two public tracts a short drive from Chippewa Lake: a lake chain to fish and thousands of acres of game land to walk.
The White Pine Trail Out of Big Rapids
Ninety-two miles of asphalt on the old Grand Rapids & Indiana grade, and the Big Rapids stretch that anchors it.
The rail-trail crossroads at Reed City
Two long-distance rail-trails cross at right angles here. Which way you point the bike decides the whole afternoon.
Reed City in the fall
Everyone shows up in August for the festival. The trees turn after they leave — mid-October, on two rail-trails and a cold river.