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Best Hikes with Children in Michigan Guide Book

by Jim DuFresne (The Mountaineers Books)
Best Hikes with Children in Michigan

254pp/maps/photos
ISBN: 0898864933

The opportunities in Michigan for short hikes, fun walks, and easy backpacking adventures are almost unlimited. The 80 outings compiled in this book represent a variety of trails and a wide range of physical challenges for children, from easy strolls through the woods to steep climbs up sand dunes. Learn about wildlife and history, too. Most of the hikes outlined in this book cover the best scenery Michigan, a state blessed with a treasure of natural jewels, has to offer.

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Trails from the "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan" Guide Book
Displaying trails 1 to 20 of 80.
... Preview: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a nice place to visit during the summer. It’s spectacular during late September, when the fall colors are at their peak and the Indian summer sun brings out the co ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Grand Marais, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles
... Preview: The best-known foot trail in Hartwick Pines State Park is the Pines Loop, a mile-long paved path that begins at the Michigan Forest Visitor Center and includes virgin white pines and a reconstructed l ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Grayling, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles
... Preview: I don’t think there’s ever been an avalanche at Boyne City’s Avalanche Peak, but the hill is incredibly steep—so steep that in the 1950s, it was a downhill ski area with tow ropes and even a chairlift ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Boyne City, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.5 miles
... Preview: A mere 30 acres in size, Thorne Swift Nature Preserve is not big and contains only a mile of footpaths. But compacted within this small area is a variety of habitats and—if you’re a child—a lot to do. ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Harbor Springs, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: Bob Lake Campground is a pleasant facility on an undeveloped and somewhat remote lake in Ottawa National Forest. Like most U.S. Forest Service campgrounds, Bob Lake is rustic, featuring vault toilets ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
L'Anse, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.25 miles
... Preview: Children love Mackinac Island State Park and Colonial Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City because of the forts, period-dressed soldiers, and the daily musket and cannon demonstrations. But many never mak ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Mackinaw City, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: What could be more exciting than viewing a shipwreck? Hiking through a ghost town, maybe? At Besser Natural Area it doesn’t matter, for children are treated to both on the easy, mile-long hike through ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Alpena, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 1 miles
... Preview: A “Big Knob” to climb, an assortment of trails to hike, and one of the most beautiful beaches along Lake Michigan. What more could a kid want in a campground? As for the parents, the best part of Big ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Naubinway, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.5 miles
... Preview: While standing on a bridge in Fred Russ Forest Park, my son and I saw a small ring suddenly appear on the surface of a stream . . . and then another and another and another. Michael instinctively glan ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Marcellus, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.2 miles
... Preview: Perhaps more than mountains, large tracts of wilderness, or the icy waters of Lake Superior, waterfalls are the trademark of the Upper Peninsula. There are hundreds of cascades in the Upper Peninsula, ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Bessemer, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.8 miles
... Preview: Geology just wasn’t cutting it with kids at the Waterloo Recreation Area. So the Gerald E. Eddy Geology Center was enlarged and its exhibits revamped and expanded. Then the name was changed. In 2001 t ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Jackson, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.5 miles
... Preview: Unmarked from the road and hidden among the towering pines of the Manistee National Forest is Bowman Lake, a beautiful body of water surrounded by forested ridges and towering pines. The lake, really ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Baldwin, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.5 miles
... Preview: Not all rest areas consist of picnic tables, trash cans, and a pair of vault toilets. A Michigan Department of Transportation roadside park on US-41 also serves as the trailhead to a beautiful falls a ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
L'Anse, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: Cascade Falls Trail is a 1.8-mile loop to just one of the Upper Peninsula’s many waterfalls. The cascading water is scenic but not as spectacular as Tahquamenon Falls or those seen along Black River D ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Bergland, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.8 miles
... Preview: Lake Erie Metropark is a 1607-acre unit of the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority and a state-designated Wildlife Viewing Area. The metropark preserves a tract of marshland at the mouth of the Detro ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Rockwood, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.5 miles
... Preview: Cottonwood Trail is an easy 1.5-mile loop in the open dunes of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. There are nine interpretive posts that correspond to a brochure explaining everything from blowou ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Empire, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.5 miles
... Preview: In the late 1800s Berrien County acquired acreage bordering Love Creek and set up a poor farm, a refuge where persons and families down on their luck could find work, a meal, and a temporary home. Mos ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Berrien Springs, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.8 miles
... Preview: Cut River Gorge Roadside Park is actually three parks clustered along US-2, a place where motorists can pull off and stretch their weary legs on that long drive across the Upper Peninsula. Connecting ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Saint Ignace, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles
... Preview: Begin this hike with the story about Stanley Graczyk. The twenty-one-year-old was a fun-loving lumberjack in the early 1900s, known as “Big Sam” to his friends and fellow loggers. On May 20, 1910, Big ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Mancelona, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 3 miles
... Preview: Lincoln Brick Park may contain only 90 acres and less than 3 miles of trails, but acre for acre it’s as scenic and historically interesting as any park in central Michigan. The park’s name comes from ... From the guidebook "Best Hikes with Children in Michigan"
Lansing, MI - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles

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