Favorite place to ride in the U.P. ?
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Dave_B is right, but also consider the Lake Gogebic area too. Lots of options from there too, including several bar/restaurants right on the lake.
Favorite Place to ride
It's all good. Love to ride North of the bridge. Have stayed in Hancock at the Ramada and traveled both North and South and feel that's the best of the UP. M&M is right across the parking lot so when you need the inevitible fix or part they are right there to help you along. Honestly, there isn't any place that's not good.
It's all good. Love to ride North of the bridge. Have stayed in Hancock at the Ramada and traveled both North and South and feel that's the best of the UP. M&M is right across the parking lot so when you need the inevitible fix or part they are right there to help you along. Honestly, there isn't any place that's not good.
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I am in the Greenland, Mass City and Rockland area, very good riding. Have ridden in the Keewee and equally if not better IMO. Twin Lakes awesome. Bergland great. Trail 13 loop from Greenland to Twin Lakes one of the nicest in da UP. Trail 109 off trail 3 south of Twin Lakes heading toward Alston incredibly awesome. Freeda Loop before Houghton off trail 3 is great. Flying up and down the Bill Nichols trail (3) at 375 mph is fun
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I agree with the western UP. BUT! It can get a little busy over there sometimes. Depending on where you live, I would suggest Seney. Same amount of miles from Bourbonais, IL to either spot. Seney provides some of the best trails and low traffic. There are 5 loops you can make without ever hitting the same trail. Well a little but not much. In my opinion I would make 2 trips. One to each spot every year. I do! lol
Bahahaha!We have stayed from as far south as Watersmeet and north to Houghton and have ridden everywhere inbetween including up to Copper Harbor. IMHO anywhere you pick in that area will have great sights and good trails.
Confucius say: "Picture worth 10,000 words." So here are 80,000 words from the National Weather Service Forecast Office at Marquette, MI!
1. 2009-2010 UP total seasonal snowfall.
2. 2008-2009 UP total seasonal snowfall.
3. 2007-2008 UP total seasonal snowfall.
4. 2006-2007 UP total seasonal snowfall.
5. 2005-2006 UP total seasonal snowfall.
6. 2004-2005 UP total seasonal snowfall.
7. 2003-2004 UP total seasonal snowfall.
8. 2002-2003 UP total seasonal snowfall.
Do you see a pattern there?
(It's just too bad that the eastern end of the UP is handled by the Gaylord, MI Forecast Office, not Marquette.)
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And from the NWSFO at Gaylord, MI!
Total seasonal snowfall for the Eastern UP and Northern Lower Peninsula:
1. 2009-2010 total seasonal snowfall.
2. 2008-2009 total seasonal snowfall.
3. 2007-2008 total seasonal snowfall.
4. 2006-2007 total seasonal snowfall.
5. 2005-2006 total seasonal snowfall.
6. 2004-2005 total seasonal snowfall.
7. 2003-2004 total seasonal snowfall.
8. 2002-2003 total seasonal snowfall.
9. 2001-2002 total seasonal snowfall.
Do you see a pattern there?
Total seasonal snowfall for the Eastern UP and Northern Lower Peninsula:
1. 2009-2010 total seasonal snowfall.
2. 2008-2009 total seasonal snowfall.
3. 2007-2008 total seasonal snowfall.
4. 2006-2007 total seasonal snowfall.
5. 2005-2006 total seasonal snowfall.
6. 2004-2005 total seasonal snowfall.
7. 2003-2004 total seasonal snowfall.
8. 2002-2003 total seasonal snowfall.
9. 2001-2002 total seasonal snowfall.
Do you see a pattern there?
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X2. There's alot of great stuff that way!
It's all good. We started riding Ironwood in 1977-78 the year of the big snow,and kept moving farther east to avoid the crowds. Based out Bergland for years, then Ontinogan, then Krupps, then Northgate in Calumet. We liked Calumet so much we bought a home and moved there. You can run any of the UP's best trails from there. Even trailer and drop to ride the eastern side. If I had to pick a "BEST" trail? I reread Lennys post, it must be 13. It would be from behind Pats Yamaha to Krupps forgot the #. But its 26 miles or so of the sweetest riding offered in the UP. The first year it opened we got to Krupps around 9pm and hit it with almost a foot of fresh pow. The plan was to run the grade back, LOL it was so sweet we never stopped on the way to Pats. At Pats we stopped and smiled so hard, then turned back to run it again. Never saw another sled all night. Hats off to Pat and crew that built it and maintains it. Gassed up back at the trailer at Krupps, then rode the powerline north of there, all untouched pow. Watched the sun come up that day, Nap and huge breakfast rode 5 more days. The off trail north off the bridge is endless if you run with peaple who grew up there, hire KSE to really have fun, costs less than its worth and you will never have a better ride in your life. It seems like every place we rode was a relation to one of DA group. Lots of early JD stories to be had also. Ok, I really miss the place, time to move back. My wife will miss me.
Favorite place to ride in the UP? Deep untouched snow where nobody else has been, climbing hills in mature hardwood forests where there is actually room to get between the trees. Public land of course, or actually the best being private land that you are allowed to be on. I'd point a few of those places out on the map but really what fun would that be?
Draw a line on a map from Iron River to Newberry and stay north of it and you should be in fine shape pretty much anywhere (well probably not so great this weekend, but typically).
I'd point a few of those places out on the map but really what fun would that be?Draw a line on a map from Iron River to Newberry and stay north of it and you should be in fine shape pretty much anywhere (well probably not so great this weekend, but typically).
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your right, it is 13 and it is 36 miles of fun. Now that trail has seen a few re-routs since it's inception but none the less still a great trail. There has been lots of logging back in there so for the last few years so we share a trail with the logging road, just under 1 mile only, not bad at all.
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cuzzinolaf
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North of the bridge by Mohawk has the best riding.