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Gaylord-Cheboygan-Mackinaw City Rail Trail Event

Join us on Saturday, June 7 for National Trails Day and The Grand Opening of the Gaylord-Cheboygan-Mackinaw City Trail. Simultaneous ribbon- cuttings at Gaylord, Vanderbilt, Wolverine, Topinabee, Cheboygan and Mackinaw City. Select your starting point and then ride, walk or run to the luncheon celebration from noon to 2 p.m.. Lunch and trail dedication at Marina Park in Indian River.

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Files: PDF Registration Brochure

A pot pourri of comments from recent trail users:

"I have ridden all the good trails in Michigan....but this one, hands-down, is the most scenic..., great, beautiful, wonderful, a great improvement, fantastic, it’s the first time anybody did anything for us over here, I like it- it’s really fun, people will see what a nice trail can do for these little towns."

Click below for a map of the Gaylord to Mackinaw Trail.

Files: Gaylord to Mackinaw City Trail Map.pdf

Annual Meeting - Wednesday June 11

The 2008 Annual Meeting is Wednesday, June 11,  at the Library Conference Center at North Central Michigan College in Petoskey.  Our speaker will be Kerri Finlayson of NCMC who will just have returned from an epic adventure from Cairo to Capetown.  Click on "Events" for further information.

Next Up

Sometime this summer the 1.25 mile gap in the Little Traverse Wheelway in Charlevoix and Emmet Counties will receive a new asphalt surface.  Instead of being forced up onto the busy US Highway 31, trail users will now be able to travel along an old railroad cut about 30 feet above the waters of Little Traverse Bay.  Many believe the segment from East Park in Bay Harbor to Magnus Park in Petoskey to be the most beautiful part of the entire 26 mile Wheelway.  Stay tuned for construction details.

The rider in the photo is traveling west from Petoskey toward Charlevoix.

Also expected this summer will be the construction of the remaining 3 miles of the Little Traverse Wheelway from the Harbor Springs Airport to a trailhead near the junction of Lake and Hoyt Streets on the east side of the city.  Currently the dedicated portion of the trail ends at the Little Traverse Township Park on M-119 at the airport. The new trail will cross M- 119 at the Pleasantview light and follow along the (though off-road) into town. Completion of this segment and the Resort Bluffs segment will mean that the Wheelway will at last be "built out," culminating a more than 30 year dream for advocates of the project, several of whom still labor for TOMTC.  The Wheelway, or "bike path as it is locally known, is poised to become one of the most beautiful trails in the nation.