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07-09-2012
News and features from Michigan's "True North" -- beautiful Traverse City!
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SLEEPING BEAR DUNES OPENS FIRST LINK
IN 27-MILE RECREATIONAL TRAIL
EMPIRE, MI– More than a million people visit Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes national Lakeshore each year – and that number has been rising since viewers of “Good Morning America” voted the coastal park the Most Beautiful Place in America last year.
But almost all those visitors arrive by automobile and must do all their traveling within the park by car. Even hikers and cyclists have to drive at times, because even though Sleeping Bear boasts over 100 miles of unpaved hiking trails, the trailheads are widely separated. The park’s main points of interest are linked by roads, but park planners created no alternatives for visitors who’d prefer to leave their cars behind.
Until now, that is.
This summer, the National Park Service and a handful of local citizen groups unveiled the first four-mile stretch of the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail, a 27-mile surfaced multi-use trail that will give walkers, runners, wheelchair users, cyclists, cross-country skiers, baby strollers, and rollerbladers a safe, enjoyable, and car-free way to explore the park. The inaugural link in the trail, which opened in June, runs from the much-photographed “dune climb” area through the ghost port of Glen Haven to the nearby village of Glen Arbor.
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