Going to ride in the U.P.

Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of Land and the Environment, commonly known as MI-TRALE, is an alliance of multiple trail and outdoor recreation enthusiasts.

The Ottawa National Forest has over 2,300 miles of Forest Service road and trail open to off-highway vehicles (OHVs).

Roads and trails designated as open to OHVs are open to vehicles 65 inches or less in width and utilizing off-road low pressure tires.

Attached mitrails.org Maps that show ATV’s/ORV’s are allowed:

• St-Ignace-to-Trout-Lake-Trail
• North-Country-Trail-Mackinac-County
• Manistique-Boardwalk
• Keweenaw-Peninsula-Trails-Network
• Jack-Stevens-Hancock-Calumet-Trail
• Iron-Ore-Heritage-Trail
• Houghton-Waterfront-Trail
• Houghton-Chassell-Trail
• Haywire-Grade-Trail
• Apple-Blossom-Trail

A few other maps from other source that clearly are for ATV/ORV’s

• Bill_Nicholls_Route-ATV_ORV
• IRON_RIVER_MARENISCO_ROUTE-ATV-ORV

This is a start but I will need to start looking more closely and see how to plan a trip with our ATV in the UP.

My next attempt at finding trails and where we can ride our ATV is these resources:

• trailsoffroad
• onx Offroad
• VVMapping (I have some papermaps)
• GAIA (allows planning online)

Trails noted in the PDF you can find more info and sometimes the GPX file at this link and if you didn’t find what you are looking for, check out the snowmobile trails here.

Don’t forget to check out uptravel.com great article on what to do in the Upper Peninsula. They have some ATV specific information in reference to the U.P.