Peter Wolfe

Welcome to the website of the Peter Wolfe Chapter of the North Country Trail Association!
Our area of responsibility includes most of the western portion of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, from the east side of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park to eastern Baraga County.  Along our trail you'll find hardwood and conifer forests, lakes, bogs, beaver ponds, rivers, waterfalls, two lean-to's (more later, we hope), historic sites, high cliffs with spectacular views, campgrounds, jack pine plains, and four trail bridges over 100 feet long.  In addition, we probably have the only place where the NCT actually passes through a building (admittedly a roofless one)!  Combined with the NCT in Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park to our west and Ottawa National Forest lands west of the Porkies, we have a continuous trail over 140 miles long, with only about 1 mile of road walking.

Who was Peter Wolfe? Temporary trail disruption along Gogebic County Road 519 Check this link	Trail maps and conditions	Check out our ONLINE CHAPTER NEWSLETTER
Ongoing chapter projects Some recommended hikes! Check this link!		Photos from along the trail
Join the Peter Wolfe Chapter!	LINKS to websites in the western U.P. which support hiking trails, non-motorized recreation, and trail corridor protection.	Want to ADOPT SOME TRAIL in the western U.P.? You don't have to live here, you know.  This is vacation country.  Take yours here! We'll get you or your organization started!!
TRIP REPORTS from trails in the western U.P., (NCT or elsewhere). You send 'em, I post 'em, we all can read 'em.	Keep informed of NCT-related issues on public lands in the western U.P. (Ottawa National Forest and Michigan DNR),  and put in your two cents once in a while!	Click HERE to see a map of the trail on Baraga Plains, built as a Sierra Club/NCTA trail construction project in July, 2001
CURRENT CONDITIONS Click here for: Weather forecasts Current snow conditions Current road conditions Current river levels What's blooming, what's   migrating, fall color report,   etc. New web site for Old Victoria! Check out http://www.oldvictoriarestoration.org/	Minutes of chapter meetings Links to NCT landowners in the western U.P. Ottawa National Forest ONF Recreation page Michigan DNR Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park (not an MDNR site)	NCTA TRAIL MAPS OF THE WESTERN UP ARE NOW AVAILABLE Scale: 1:100,000 Durable, waterproof paper Shows NCT, roads, mileages, water sources, topography, etc. One map covers Alberta to Cascade Falls.  Other covers Cascade Falls to Ironwood. Try the NCTA Online Trail Shop or call NCTA at (866) HIKE-NCT (The newer ones are supposedly more waterproof than the old ones, but I keep mine in a plastic bag on really rainy days
Public transportation for NCT shuttles is AVAILABLE AGAIN in Ontonagon County! Superior Shores Resort is now providing dropoff and pickup service for NCT hikers.  Contact Linda Kermeen at 906-884-2653 or info@superior-shores-resort.com for more info.	Planning a hike on the NCT in the western U.P.?  Want to know how far it is by trail from one place to another?  Just download the Excel mileage chart from the link below and follow the instructions.  It will make the calculation for you! Mileage calculator	Featuring... THE TRAP HILLS! Follow this link for information on the most spectacular section of our trail!
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