Heritage Route Route Around Harrisville

1 Negwegon State Park !y!7!F!©!\ 5 Harrisville State Park 9 Reid Lake Quiet Area Negwegon State Park is a 3,738 acre rustic, undeveloped area open for !9!5!_!²!p!r!F!(!y !9 !_ !² !F !( !© !l ALCONAALCONA COUNTY COUNTY hunting and hiking. The terrain is a mixture of low land areas, with small Reid Lake is a 3,000 acre back- MICHIGANMICHIGAN ridges,tomaturepineforest,with country recreation experience that some hardwoods and aspen forest, is closed to motor vehicles. 12 miles with some pockets of open meadows of gently rolling trail through the mixed in. Negwegon hosts a beautiful HuronNationalForestwillleadyou undevelopedsandybeachonLake around Reid Lake, once part of a Huron. The Algonquin Trail, the Chippewa Trail, and the northern Michigan farm. The ski trails are easily negotiated by a Potawatomi Trail provide scenic hiking opportunities. beginning skier, with enough rolling terrain to please even the Backcountry camping is available in more advanced skier. Hunting and fishing are permitted. Reid Lake Negwegon from April through November. boasts a large population of largemouth bass, perch, sunfish, and This type of camping can be a very Harrisville State Park features a campground and day-use area rainbow trout. Small boats, canoes, and inflatable rafts are rewarding experience as some of nestledinastandofpineandcedartreesalongthesandyshoresof permitted, but they must be carried in and out of the foot travel Negwegon's most scenic areas are Lake Huron. The park is within walking distance of the resort town area. Parking lot and trailhead are located on M-72. National accessible only by hiking, kayaking or of Harrisville. Established in 1921, it is one of Michigan's oldest Forest Service vehicle pass is required. canoeing along the Lake Huron shore. state parks. The original park area consisted of six acres, much smaller than the current 107-acre size. 10 Hoist Lakes Foot Travel Area 2 Sturgeon Point Lighthouse !F!r!\ Sturgeon Point juts into Lake 6 Harrisville Depot !9!_!²!F!(!©!l Huron, and the waves off the Built in 1901 for the Detroit and Hoist Lakes encompasses over HURONHURON SHORES SHORES point conceal a long and shallow Mackinac Railway Company, this 10,000 acres of pine, aspen and reef which extends for almost a cut stone depot was a busy place hardwood forests. The area is full mile beyond the visible any day of the week with the large enough to challenge any confines of the land. In 1870, the bustling lumber business in and backpacking enthusiast. There Sturgeon Point Lighthouse are over 20 miles of trails HeritageHeritage Route Route around Harrisville. Daily trains became operational to mark the arrivedordepartedto winding through small pothole hazard of Sturgeon Point and destinations such as Detroit or lakes and areas of beaver flooding, as well as over and around hills continues to be an operational lighthouse today. The lighthouse Cheboygan. As the lumber business diminished and automobile use and ridges. As you travel through the area, watch for examples of was electrified and automated in 1939 and the last personnel left increased, rail travel became less and less common. The last timber harvesting and tree regeneration, wildlife management and in 1941. The light apparatus is still maintained by the U.S. Coast passenger train left the station on March 31, 1951. Mail and freight watershed management. Hunting and fishing are permitted in Guard. The keeper's house is now a maritime museum service continued through the early 1960's, after which the building season. The Hoist Lakes Area is home to white-tail deer, black bear, maintained by the Alcona Historical Society. The keeper's house was used for occasional storage by the railroad. This depot is one of raccoon, red fox, coyote, beaver, otter, mink, badger, skunks, and and the tower are both open to the public. thefewremaininginnorthernMichigan. squirrels. North Hoist Lake is home to bass and sunfish while South Hoist Lake is a designated trout lake and is regularly stocked with 33 Old Bailey School rainbow trout. Byron Lake offers good bass and perch fishing. 7 National Forest Service vehicle pass is required. Built in 1907 of Norway pine, the Bailey School is HarrisvilleHeritageRouteTrail !F!G one of the few remaining one-room, log This 2.5 mile pedestrian and 11 Alcona Park/Au Sable River schoolhouses still standing in Michigan. The bicycle trail winds along the school bell still rings from atop the roof to picturesque streets of Harrisville. !9!_!²!p!r!F!l!y summon students of history and simpler times. It The trail begins at the Harrisville was built at the site of C.A. Johnson Logging Harbor, follows portions of Lake LocatedonthehistoricAuSableRiver Camp west of Mikado for the children of the Street, Church Street, Main Street, floodwaters above the Alcona Dam, this logging crews. It bears the name of a lumberman 3rd Street, and 2nd Street and 1,100 acre park has three miles of shoreline who was part of the crew that built the school and who connects to trails at Harrisville on each side of this trophy fish producing supervised moving it in 1913 to a site on F-30, where it served State Park at the south end of river. Surrounded by the Huron National the community until 1941. Partially restored in 1973, the town and Harrisville Township Park Forest and is a favorite home away from structure was disassembled, moved and restored in 1998 to its at the north end. Pick up a Harrisville Heritage Route trail brochure home for many vacationers. The river current Sturgeon Point site. It is furnished with items used and follow along as you hike or pedal past such historic buildings as provides quality fishing of walleye, pike, perch, bass and trout. during its time, including a recitation bench, desks, drinking pail the Widow's Watch Bed and Breakfast (where the former roof-top Canoeing, boating, swimming, fishing, hunting and wildlife and dipper, and coal stove. gazebo can be seen sitting on the grounds of the property) and the viewing are all popular activities for visitors. Over 450 campsites Old Place Inn (where John Dillenger reportedly had coffee). Be sure available. Camping cabins are available for rent! 4 Harrisville Harbor !5!_!² !p to stop and take in the spectacular view of sparkling Lake Huron at the end of Main Street! TOURISM INFORMATION Huron Shores Chamber of Commerce 8 Lincoln Depot www.huronshoreschamber.com (989) 724-5107 The Lincoln Depot, a wood structure US 23 Heritage Route Online Huron National Forest that has been standing since 1886, www.us23heritageroute.org http://fs.usda.gov/hmnf was built by the Detroit, Bay City The Harrisville Harbor was completed in 1961. A large basin had Michigan Dept. of Natural to be created along the shoreline by dynamite, dredging, and and Alpena Railroad. The Depot is US National Forest locatedonLakeStreetinLincoln Resources & Environment Campground Guide removing large boulders. The limestone wall was constructed to www.michigan.gov/dnre www.forestcamping.com create the harbor of refuge for anchorage and shelter. A fixed andservedthecommunityandthe dock was built in 1963, floating dockage was added in 1986, and surrounding area until 1929. The Funding for this brochure was made Technical assistance and brochure the current updated comfort station in 2006. The Harbor first rail service to this area passed possible through: design provided by: provides a total of 98 slips, 49 for transient and 49 for seasonal through Lincoln from the south and continued north through Northeast Michigan boaters. During the summer months, the Harbor Pavilion Ossineke and Alpena. In December of 1998, the Lincoln Depot was Council of Governments officially recognized as a Michigan Historic Site. provides the backdrop for a variety of activities as well as the Michigan Department Cover photo courtesy of MDOT www.us23heritageroute.org city's summer concert series on Wednesday nights. of Transportation BROCHURE COMMODITY CODE 8014-0747

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