[Magdalen] WI-13 & MI-28

[ROGER STOKES]

Thanks for the detail. They're great for bicycles because the grades aren't steep and it's safer keeping them off the highway.  We have some in the UK, particularly England, but generally not that long.  I noticed a similar trail up the North Shore yesterday - not an old railroad track but at least it provided a safer route for cyclists.
Roger
 

    On Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 23:36, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
 

 Apparently it's the Sidnaw to Berglund Rail Trail - 48 miles, along MI 28. 
There are *lots* of these all over - for bicycles, ATV's (sometimes) and 
snowmobiles (as this one). They're often, as in this case, created from 
disused railroad lines.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: ROGER STOKES
Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 5:58 PM
To: Magdalen
Subject: [Magdalen] WI-13 & MI-28

plus a few other roads brought me from Duluth to Marquette.  WI-13 has to 
have been better than US-2, even under blue skies like today.  I certainly 
saw plenty of trees on the Upper Peninsula and looked across from Bayfield 
to the Apostle Islands. Earlier, though, my interest was piqued as I went 
through Port Wing by a notice about their Testicle Festival.  They obviously 
aren't mountain oysters so are they Superior Oysters? :-)

MI-28 has a railroad close to it for much of its route but elsewhere I 
noticed what looked like an old track-bed paralleling the road for some 
distance.  Was there an old railroad up there, possibly serving the iron 
mines but now a trail for other users?
Roger