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The Iron Belle Trail is a set of two trails that will span the state of Michigan. The two trails, one for hiking and one for biking, connects Ironwood in the Upper Peninsula and Belle Isle State Park in Detroit. When complete, the hiking trail will be 1,204 miles (1,938 km) long and the biking trail is 828 miles (1,333 km) long. [1]
The state of Michigan recognized the B2B project as a component of the statewide Iron Belle Trail in 2015, bringing additional visibility to the project. The mid-2010s also brought additional private funding to the trail, with expansion plans for a segment from Dexter west to Chelsea.
Belle Isle was the top-visited state park in Michigan in 2016, receiving more than 4 million visitors. Since the state took control in 2014, it has invested $32 million in renovation and improvements in the park. [13] The park is one of the termini for the cross-state Iron Belle Trail, which consists of separate hiking and biking trails. [14]
The Iron Belle Trail cross-state bike trail uses the North Central State Trail as one of its segments. [3] In 2018–19, the trail was extended southerly from its original terminus at Gaylord to the Crawford-Otsego County line, 1.6 miles (2.6 km) south of the community of Waters, a total of 12.0 miles (19.3 km).
The Michigan DNR says there's no use for the Belle Isle Boat Club, proposing demolition. A Freep reader says the historic building has value. Belle Isle Boat Club can be saved.
Ironwood has one high school, Luther L. Wright High School, informally known as Ironwood High School. Their mascot is the "Red Devils," a common description of the iron ore miners that would get covered with red dust from the iron ore. [12] Luther L. Wright enjoys a rivalry with neighboring Hurley High. It is one of the longest-running ...
Park system trails also connect to or are part of larger trail systems like the Washtenaw County Border-to-Border Trail and the Michigan Iron Belle Trail. [4] An overpopulation of white-tailed deer in the parks in recent years was handled by a controversial special archery hunt. [5] In 2019 the system conducted prescribed burns on 115 acres of ...
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