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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]
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is bounded on land by Wisconsin to the southwest and west; and in territorial waters by Minnesota to the west, Ontario to the west, north and east, and the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin extends into Lake Michigan east of the western Upper Peninsula. Five Michigan Upper Peninsula counties include nearby major islands ...
Horseshoe Bay Trail is a 6.4-mile (10.3 km) trail that enters and loops through the Horseshoe Bay Wilderness. The motor-vehicle trailhead, located just outside the wilderness, is 6 miles (9.7 km) north of St. Ignace , MI .
The North Country Trail has been added to the National Parks Registry, and 550 of its 4,800 miles stretch across the state's Upper Peninsula.
Snow River Mountain Resort is located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Wakefield Township, Gogebic County.Indianhead Mountain is in an area called "Big Snow Country", so named because of the annual 200-inch (5.1 m) average snowfall, courtesy of the lake effect [1] from Lake Superior.
Lake Superior State Forest is a state forest in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, United States.It is operated by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.The North Country Trail utilizes this state forest for 43 miles (69 km) of its route.
Big Powderhorn Mountain is a 250-acre (1.0 km 2) ski resort located in Gogebic County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, within Bessemer Township and Ironwood Township (between the cities of Bessemer and Ironwood).
The Porcupine Mountains, or Porkies, are a group of small mountains spanning the northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan in Ontonagon and Gogebic counties, near the shore of Lake Superior. The Porcupine Mountains were named by the native Ojibwa people, supposedly because their silhouette had the shape of a crouching porcupine. [4]