Michigan Wildernesses

Beaver Basin Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 1
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=707
Wilderness | Beaver Basin Wilderness
State | MI
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 3/30/2019
WID | 707
Abbreviated Name | Beaver_Basin
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BeaverBasin.jpg
Acreage | 11740
Description | The Beaver Basin Wilderness includes 13 miles of stunning Lake Superior shoreline from Spray Falls on the west to Sevenmile Creek on the east. The wilderness is some 3.5 miles deep and contains three beautifully...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 707NPS
Designated | 2009
ORIG_FID | 9663

Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 11
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=758
Wilderness | Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness
State | MI
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 4/15/2014
WID | 758
Abbreviated Name | Sleeping_Bear_Dunes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SleepingBearDunes.jpg
Acreage | 32557
Description | Sleeping Bear Dunes is as old as continental ice sheets and as young as the 1970 Establishment Act that set aside the Lakeshore for preservation of the natural resources and for public use. With miles...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 758NPS
Designated | 2014
ORIG_FID | 27535

Isle Royale Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 65
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=268
Wilderness | Isle Royale Wilderness
State | MI
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 3/30/2019
WID | 268
Abbreviated Name | Isle_Royale
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/IsleRoyale.jpg
Acreage | 132018
Description | The Ojibwe who have visited the island for more than 4,500 years called Isle Royale "Minong", the good place. French trappers gave 45-mile-long, nine-mile-wide Isle Royale its regal name. Located in the...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 268NPS
Designated | 1976
ORIG_FID | 39352

Seney Wilderness
Wilderness | Seney Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Seney
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Seney.jpg
Description | The Seney Wilderness is part of the 95,238 acre Seney National Wildlife Refuge. At first glance the entire Refuge appears wild, but in fact much of it is carefully managed to provide habitat for a diversity...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 542FWS

Huron Islands Wilderness
Wilderness | Huron Islands Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Huron_Islands
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HuronIslands.jpg
Description | The Huron Island Wilderness is located on and makes up the entirety of the Huron National Wildlife Refuge. Created when President Theodore Roosevelt designated the small islands a national bird sanctuary...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 253FWS

Michigan Islands Wilderness
Wilderness | Michigan Islands Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Michigan_Islands
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MichiganIslands.jpg
Description | The Michigan Islands Wilderness consists of Pismire, Scarecrow, and Shoe Islands, three of the eight islands established as the Michigan Islands National Wildlife Refuge on Lakes Huron and Michigan. Scarecrow...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 354FWS

Big Island Lake Wilderness
Wilderness | Big Island Lake Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Big_Island_Lake
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BigIslandLake.jpg
Description | Twenty-three lakes, ranging in size from 5 to 149 acres are found in this wilderness where ducks, loons, and great blue herons are often seen feeding. Bald eagles are occasional visitors, and sand hill...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 41FS

Delirium Wilderness
Wilderness | Delirium Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Delirium
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | A few intrepid deer hunters in fall and skiers in winter are just about the only people who visit this Wilderness. A thickly forested swamp with surface water and biting insects, it bears signs of past...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 152FS

Horseshoe Bay Wilderness
Wilderness | Horseshoe Bay Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Horseshoe_Bay
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HorseshoeBay.jpg
Description | Horseshoe Bay dents a slight curve along the northwest shore of Lake Huron. Sandy beaches cover the southern third of the shoreline, which becomes rocky and marshy in the north. Hiking into the Wilderness...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 250FS

Mackinac Wilderness
Wilderness | Mackinac Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mackinac
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Mackinac.jpg
Description | Near the end of the 1910s, Mackinac Wilderness Area had been severely logged. But nature's regeneration has allowed second-growth forest to reclaim the land, and some trees have been standing for 60 to...

McCormick Wilderness
Wilderness | McCormick Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | McCormick
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/mccormick.jpg
Description | Three generations of McCormick's, the descendants of Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the reaping machine, held the deed to this area before Gordon McCormick willed the land to the U.S. Forest Service. McCormick...

Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
Wilderness | Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Nordhouse_Dunes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NordhouseDunes.jpg
Description | Over the past 13,000 years, as the level of Lake Michigan rose and fell, winds swept the exposed sand from the lakebed into a series of rolling dunes, some reaching 140 feet in height. Most of the present...

Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
Wilderness | Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sturgeon_River_Gorge
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SturgeonRiverGorge.jpg
Description | The Wild and Scenic Sturgeon River rushes out of the northern portion of this Wilderness, over the 20-foot volcanic outcropping of Sturgeon Falls, and through a gorge that reaches 300 feet in depth and...

Sylvania Wilderness
Wilderness | Sylvania Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sylvania
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Sylvania.jpg
Description | Most of Michigan's pristine forestland has been logged off, but here you'll find stands of the rare and treasured trees that once blanketed the state. In 1885 a man named A. D. Johnston purchased 80 acres...

Rock River Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Rock River Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rock_River_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/rock_river_cany.jpg
Description | From west to east, remote waterways Rock River and Silver Creek flow through 150-foot-deep canyons. The two canyons are separated by a broad, flat ridge and surrounded by relatively flat uplands. Second-growth...

Round Island Wilderness
Wilderness | Round Island Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Round_Island
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RoundIsland.jpg
Description | All of Round Island has been designated wilderness except one acre on the northern tip, a sand and cobblestone spit where the lighthouse stands. There has been no logging on the island since the turn-of-the-century....