What part of Northern Wisconsin are you leaving from? In June I road from Goodman WI to Copper Harbor Mi. Stayed in hotels. Once you get into Michigan it was mostly rail road grade.
We will probably leave from the Silver Cliff area as my in-laws have a cabin there. It looks like you can cross into Michigan either near Florence or west of there via the Nicolet State Trail. How many days did you take to complete your trip? I bet if it’s mostly grade, you can make miles fast. I would love to hear some more details of your trip like what trails you took and good hotels to use. Thanks!
Just looked at their website. This place looks really nice. Defiantly wouldn’t mind staying there!
Around 150 miles. It was 34 and misty. There's some beautiful sites. I bet its dusty as heck in the summer.
Sorry, I don't have any experience riding quads/SxS's on the West end, been in that area during the winter on sleds a few times, definitely some beautiful scenery. As @PistonHonda said, get yourself a copy of VVmapping....well worth it.
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I also have a cabin in Silver Cliff. We left from there and picked up another group in Goodman. We left around 8:00AM on Friday and ended up in Watersmeet mid afternoon with one stop for lunch in Florence. We stayed at the Casino. I would recommend it. We headed out on Saturday morning with our destination of Houghton. Make sure you stop at Bond falls if you go this route. We made Houghton late afternoon. The trail ends there with a locked gate. You need to call the police department to get an escort through town and across the bridge into Hancock. There is more information about this on Houghton web site. We stayed in Houghton on Saturday night and Sunday night with a day trip Sunday to Copper harbor. On the way back we stayed at Running Bear resort in Paulding. We did take the Nicolet state trail back. Got off in Long Lake and headed towards Fence. I used Orux maps App on a 7" tablet with the VV ORV Map. I highly recommend it. We never got lost.
We crossed a couple on the way from Watersmeet to Houghton. They had to be 80 to 100 feet in the air. very cool. The last pic is of one of the old train trestles. The picture does not do it justice.
The center picture is the trail that heads east out of Hancock. It looked like an old train bridge went across the top, but I am not sure.
Oh ok, I thought that you were on an old train tram and that might be a rocked cut through a small hill. It sure is a cool looking feature!!! Of course those cascades are fantastic too!!!
