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The Ottawa National Forest is a national forest that covers 993,010 acres (401,860 ha) in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It includes much of Gogebic and Ontonagon counties, as well as slices of Iron, Houghton, Baraga, and Marquette counties. The forest is under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Forest Service.
Sylvania Wilderness is an 18,327 acres (7,417 ha) protected area located a few miles west of Watersmeet Township, Michigan.Sylvania is located entirely within the bounds of the Ottawa National Forest, and is currently being managed as a wilderness area as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System by the U.S. Forest Service.
The Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness is a 14,729-acre (59.61 km 2) unit within the Ottawa National Forest. It is located in Baraga County and Houghton County within the U.S. state of Michigan. The wilderness is accessible from M-28, which runs south of the unit in a west-to-east direction.
The Black River National Forest Scenic Byway is a National Forest Scenic Byway that runs along the Black River in the Ottawa National Forest in the U.S. state of Michigan.The byway follows County Road 513 (CR 513) through Gogebic County in the Upper Peninsula.
U.S. Forest Service The McCormick Wilderness is a United States Wilderness Area located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan . It covers an area of about 17,000 acres (69 km 2 ) and is located 3 miles (4.8 km) east of the Baraga - Marquette county line. [ 1 ]
Federal Forest Highway 16 (FFH 16) is a forest highway in the western Upper Peninsula of the US state of Michigan that runs through the Ottawa National Forest in Iron, Houghton and Ontonagon counties. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) has erroneously marked it as H-16 on their official state map.
It is located within the one million acre (4,000 km 2) Ottawa National Forest. Lake Gogebic State Park is located along its western shore. It is in the far western end of the Upper Peninsula, close to the Wisconsin border, and in parts of two counties, Gogebic County and Ontonagon County. The lake is also in two time zones, central and eastern.
Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]