[Magdalen] WI-13 & MI-28

[Joseph Cirou]

A favorite for Chicagoans and others is the Elroy Sparta trail with a chance to lunch at a German cafe in New Glarus which is a Little Switzerland in scenery and culture. That is closer (to  us in Chicago)--an easy day trip for a bike ride and a meal.

Joe
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>From: ROGER STOKES <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
>Sent: Apr 27, 2016 8:39 PM
>To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] WI-13 & MI-28
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>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
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>    On Wednesday, 27 April 2016, 23:36, Charles Wohlers <charles.wohlers at verizon.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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>Chad Wohlers
>Woodbury, VT USA
>chadwohl at satucket.com
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>-----Original Message----- 
>From: ROGER STOKES
>Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 5:58 PM
>To: Magdalen
>Subject: [Magdalen] WI-13 & MI-28
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>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? :-)
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>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 
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