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Posted by: LiveWire
I don't believe you can ride at Sleeping Bear.
Posted by: TrailMix
There certainly are a lot of trails in Michigan- some of them are fairly close to Silver Lake. Tin Cup Springs is one I'm familiar with- it is wide enough for full size 4X4 trucks so you can really haul. It's 23 miles long, has lots of sand and whoops, almost no rocks and very little traffic. Near to Tin Cup Springs is a much longer trail, I think it's called "Big O" and it is about 60 miles long. I haven't tried that one yet because I don't think that I could make it on a tank of gas.
It can get congested at Silver Lake on the weekend. If you were planning on staying there for a week, you may want to escape the weekend crowd and try the trails out. Save the dune riding for the weekdays- the sand is so much smoother than on the weekends.
Posted by: 95Warrior
For the best information about trail riding in MI, see www.cycleconservationclub.org They have an AWESOME website with LOADS of information (they even have a "jukebox" that plays songs while you surf their site!). If you join the club (for $25/yr), you get a 63 page book of the latest maps available, and a monthly "magazine" of about 24 pages with all the latest details and events. They were formed in 1968 in response to a bunch of trails being closed in the Lower Penninsula and have a lot of organized trail rides during the year all over the state.
Posted by: DoubleBoss
You can't ride at Sleeping Bear. It's a scenic National Park that you have to pay $11 to get into. Thank ol' Billy for that, your tax dollars hard at work.
Greg V, have a great time. Midweek is a blast without all the traffic. My birthday present usually is the day at Silver Lake.
Posted by: DoubleBoss
Also try www.michiganatv.com for information dealing more with ATV enthusiasts.
Posted by: Eq
Manistee National Forest is not too far away. It has UNGODLY amounts of trails through it. Not sand, but good riding.
When are you going to Silver Lake?? I am in Michigan and already have about 3 trips planned for early riding at Silver Lake.
Posted by: Eq
offroadprincess - Where in Westland are you located. I am at work right now at Newburgh and Marquette... I live in Livonia near Franklin Highschool.
Posted by: imadunatic
what is the scramble area like? and near what town is the trailhead(s)? i have heard of several different scramble areas in michigan but only know of one, if you could help me out princess, id appreciate it.
Posted by: GregV
My Wife and I are planning to take a week off work and hit the dunes for our anniversary. We have been to Silver Lake and are definatly going back. We are also planning on going on up north to Sleeping Bear dunes. Has anyone been there?? That is my question: Please tell me some really nice places to go in Michigan reasonably close to Silver Lake. I want to spend more time riding my quad and not my truck.
Thanks
Posted by: GregV
We will be going the second week of August. I found a lot of trails on the Michigan DNR web page, A BUNCH!! Has anyone had a chance to try any of them? I saw one recommended above that we will try. Any others worth mentioning: Good, bad or ugly??
Posted by: offroadprinces
We really enjoy the dunes as well. Another trail that we like is Black Lake in the Northeastern Lower Pennisula. It is a challenging trail with lot of hills and wooded scenic trails as well as a petty good sized scramble area. (We have been told that it used to be a ski lodge that burned down.)
Posted by: offroadprinces
Imadunatic:
The scramble area is a pretty good size. They have a strip that they usually end up using from drag racing. They race buggis, trucks, and four wheelers. All of the big hills are towards the front and there are a lot of little hills towards the back (along the water). There is definitly something for everyone there. There is even an occassional mud hole or two.
If you have never been there it is some place to at least check out. We have taken quite a few people there and they have all become addicted.
The dunes are located in Mears, Michigan. Here is the address for their web page----> www.silverlakesanddunes.net
The only other scramble area that I have rode at is the Mounds and that one isn't all that thrilling. (It is okay for a day tip and that is about it.)
EQ:
I live by where you work, and I work by where you live. How bout that...
