Upper Peninsula Snowmobile Trail Report    

Gogebic County

• Gogebic Range Trails: (12/15) Please stay off the trails because they are deteriorating due to the lack of snow and the warm weather. 
• Lake Gogebic: (12/15) Groomer's are in from another late night. Definitely could tell there's been a lot of traffic on the trails! 13n, 13s, 102 and 1n were all groomed tonight. 102 all water holes have now frozen up. 13n short section wet that never really freezes over but nothing to worry about. 13s all water holes frozen in but remains thin towards the south end of the lake. 1n one swamp that hasn't been crossed yet, but will be addressed in the next day or 2. 1s there's one spot where water is leaching onto the trail but only a few inches deep and hasn't been a issue. (Just ride with caution.)The brief warmup shouldn't impact us, however we will most likely hold sending out machines tonight if temperatures remain above freezing. That's your Saturday evening Sunday morning update.
• Watersmeet: (12/13) Drivers just got back and had some tree clearing again but are happy overall. Definitely could use more snow especially east and south on our system. Some rocks dirt and sand in spots and some really nice spots, so ride with caution as it’s early season and there are still some areas that need more snow to fill in the rough spots. Not grooming until we get more snow. We will update when we do. Ride Safe and Ride Right.

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​Ontonagon County

• Ontonagon/Silver City/White Pine: (12/15) 2-4' down in the Porkies, still snowing! Full report in the morning!
• Sidnaw/Bruce Crossing: (12/16) We have had some warm weather again, too warm for grooming yesterday, Sunday the 15th. We are watching the temps closely and will go out tonight if the weather allows. Please ride on the RIGHT side of the trail and STOP at the stop signs! Stay on the trail, if you don’t we could lose trail permissions on private property. We now have the Groomer Trackers installed and working on our groomers. We groom every day that the weather conditions and equipment allow. Unforeseen circumstances may prevent us from going out, like a major blizzard and being snowed in at our homes or equipment breakdowns.

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Houghton County & Keweenaw County

• (12/16) Grooming paused due to weather.
  • Portage Lake Lift Bridge snowmobile trail remains closed. Until Portage Canal is frozen, no official date is set. Please do not drive snowmobiles across Bridge road/sidewalk. Estimating for mid-late December.
  • Trail 3 from Dollar Bay to Lake Linden has been reopened as of 2023. 
  • Trail 122 is passable, but ride with caution: expect low snow mixed with mud and early season conditions.
  • Trail 133 to Gay will remain CLOSED until conditions improve post hunting season.
  • Trail 124 is closed for logging.
  • This is not enough snow yet to groom trails 151, and 152.
  • Please respect private land owner rights. We can't have a trail system without their support.

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Baraga County​ 

• (12/12) Watch for water on 14 and in swamps opening up. STAY RIGHT! I see a lot of drivers are hugging the inside corners on wrong side, please be safe and stay right! DAY Grooming tomorrow January 13, 2024
  • Trail 8: Poor condition. Watch for water in swamps and stay on trail. RIDE RIGHT!
  • Trail 14: Poor condition. Watch for water on trail and lower snow as you enter L'Anse.
  • Trail 8/15: Poor condition. Thin base. Low snow in town. Day Grooming tomorrow January 13, 2024 Watch for Logging
  • Trail 109: Poor condition. Thin base. Day Grooming tomorrow January 13, 2024
  • Trail 159: Poor condition. Thin base. Lower snow in Baraga, watch for logging on road, watch for water in wet areas. Day Grooming tomorrow January 13, 2024
  • Trail 15: CLOSED FOR BEGINING OF THIS SEASON !!!!!! Working on getting it open

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Iron County

• Iron River: (12/11) We do not have enough snow to groom. We do not put our groomers on the trail until we have at least a foot of snow on the ground. Trail #15N to Sidnaw and #15S to the Wisconsin border will remain closed until December 15th due to private land owner's request to hunt the muzzle loader season. Trail #107 to Kenton will have a reroute due to a logging job by Shane Creek. This will affect the last few miles of the trail from the Shane Creek bridge into Kenton. The trail will be rerouted onto the Golden Glow Road. This reroute will last until the end of January when the logger is done hauling. Remember Speed is Dangerous!! Speed is #1 cause of serious snowmobile rider injury and death. Ride right, so you make it home to family and friends!!!
• Crystal Falls: (12/11) Our trails are closed. The gates on private property are closed due to lack of snow. I don’t see any amounts of snow coming to our area this week either. Most of it will be north of us. We will let you know when we start grooming. Our regular grooming days will be as follows: Trail #16 from Crystal Falls, West to Iron River and Trail #111 and #18 from Crystal Falls to Amasa then east to Republic; Groomed Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Trail #113 and Trail #2 From Crystal Falls South to The Brule River, then west to George Young Cut off: Groomed Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Trail #16 From Crystal Falls East to Sagola: Groomed Tuesday and Thursday. This trail does not connect to trail #5 East of M95 in Dickinson County. That section is closed due to not being able to secure permission from private landowners. We will continue to work on this with the DNR. “We have lighted Trailhead parking and Port-a-Jons, at our Quonset Hut, located on M69 and trail #113 (at the bottom of the hill in Crystal Falls) for your easy access to ride our trail system

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Marquette County

• Big Bay Trails: (12/4)  for the 12+" were supposed to get tonight. Were preparing the trails but they are NOT open yet. Need a little more base and some cold weather. Let er snow!
• Hiawatha Trails: No report available. 
• Moose Country: (12/14) Trail 18 has been groomed there are a few spots with rock right under the surface ride with caution. Trail 8and 14 from ishpeming to Marquette has been groomed up to behind Menards snow is thin by Marquette and we need more snow to finish grooming the trail the rest of the way into marquette.  Trail 8 from ishpeming has been groomed to the swamp behind Michigamme market.  We will need a few more days to freeze this swamp so the Groomers can get through.  Trail 5 from republic to the Yellow dog planes is being groomed today and tomorrow.  Trail 82 has been groomed once and a partial groom a second time.  Hope to finish grooming this trail this weekend.  We had a groomer break down and hope to have it fixed and back running this weekend.  Trail 5 and 32 south of Republic have not been groomed yet as there is not enough snow in that area.  The warm up early this week really hurt the snow cover in that area.  We need another storm and several inches of snow before this trail can be groomed.
• Trenary Trails: (12/13) Currently, the gates between Ikkala Rd and S. Sundell Rd are locked. We are working on getting them opened. Revisiting the trail after the warm up this weekend to see what we will need to be able to open it to grooming. The snow quickly lessens as you go west from Eben and that will hamper us from making the run. Hoping for a snow event that will actually leave enough snow across the length of the trail to be able to work the entire thing. Keep doing your snow dance!
• U.P. Central Trails: No report available. 

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Dickinson County

• (12/15) Our Trails are not open and all gates are closed.We have little to nothing on the ground.We need some system snow,about 6 inches to a foot before the trails can open.The 10 day forecast does not look good. THINK SNOW!!!!

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Menominee County

• (12/5) 3" cover. Blowing snow.  

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Alger County

• ​   ​Munising: (12/13) We did get quite a bit of snow Wednesday night and Thursday. Trail 8 North of Shingleton going to Bear Trap. This was groomed again Wednesday night. It was not great. Not only was it snowing so hard the operator was having issues seeing where the trail went, there are still several water holes further North. We skipped the swamp in Shingleton by cutting over to H15 just Norht of the swamp. The John Deer front tracks just plow right down to the bottom of the mud. These holes are North of the new bridge that went in this summer. They had to get a crane and a bunch of equipment in there and the trail saw some abuse. We hope to get this fixed up next summer. We have not been back on that trail with a groomer since Wednesday night so expect it to not be very smooth. We hope these last couple of days of cold temps have this locking up and freezing. It took us 3 hours to clean the mud out of the tractor after this run and had to thaw it over night. The spur trail between Miners Castle trail and Wetmore along the North side of M28 has been groomed. This trail turned out very nice. 417 between Chatam spur and the Brownstone was panned in last night. We had a couple of trees down that had to be removed. The trail get more rocky the further North you go. It is passable. 419 between Christmas and Wetmore is looking pretty good and has been groomed. There are still a couple of areas with water.
  • 8 East: Very Good.
  • 8 West: Very Good. 
  • 7 South: Good.
  • 7 North: Good.
  • 419 East: Good.
  • 419 West: Good.
  • 418 - Au Train: Good. Still thin snow from Autrain heading West. Groomer was over there yesterday. Light traffic the trail looks good.
  • 417 - Brownstone Jnct.: Fair. Rocks further North - Down trees removed yesterday.
  • 422 - Miners Castle: Trail Closed - Logging between M28 & H58 - will be dozed down to dirt. 
  • Wetmore Spur: Very Good. Cut this in last night. Wow that was a fun one.... 
     
• Grand Marais: (12/14) All trails groomed last night for your riding pleasure today.

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​Delta County

• No report available.

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Schoolcraft County

• ​Seney: (12/13) Just rode a large portion of the Seney trail system, groomer Kyle has got our trail system in great shape. We will be adding more groomers to the mix starting tonight and into the weekend, he has set the bar pretty high for the rest of us to keep them in great shape. We are getting a rental groomer as the new holland is down, the 2nd machine will be going out at some point tomorrow, ride right, ride safe everyone.
• Manistique: (12/15) So, We're watching. When Temps get too high, groomer operations are suspended.

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Luce County

• Newberry/Tahquamenon Falls area: (12/13) Currently 7 degrees this morning. We groomed trail 9 north up to Holland Lake stagging area. Its in really good shape. Traffic is still pretty light even for the amount of snow we have north. We also groomed the south trail 9/2 down to H40. Its really thin and we wont be heading that way again until we get more snow. The gates on trail 45 are still closed and the weather is calling for a slight warm up Sunday and Monday so its not likely they will open up this weekend. There is also some logging going on around camp 7 road. Its early season still and ive seen a few other clubs such as Paradise and Grand Marais post about a few water hazards. Please check their pages if you plan to head in those directions. Dont forget to turn your What 3 Words app on before you go.
  • Trail 9: 
  • Trail 498: 
  • Trail 45: 
  • Trail 9/2: 

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Chippewa County

• Sault Ste. Marie: (12/116) Don’t fret! The warm up, while disappointing, is short lived, and colder temps and snow are on the way! Down to 18” at my house in the Soo this morning.
• Paradise: (12/15) 36 degrees this morning and windy. Looks like the next few days are gonna be above freezing, even at night, this is a bummer. We are forced to park `em for now. Here`s how it went yesterday...... Me and new guy Dave did take a machine with drag and headed south. Everything groomed up pretty good except for the far south end of the power line. There is about a 100 yard section of open water. It is only about a foot deep. You can get around it but be careful. In the Federal Forest section there is another 100 yard section of water that you can`t get around. Its closer to 2 feet deep so, sorry to report, we had to keep the gates closed. Soooo......like I said above.......we are gonna park the machines for now and wait out good ole Mother Nature. Looks like next Wed. or Thurs. the temps are supposed to drop......
• Eckerman: (12/13) We went and groomed the trails last night. Rudyard trail is starting to look good now, thin getting into Rudyard. Trout Lake trail is doing good. Did not do the Molly Gibson yet there is still to much water. Hulbert trail still has one spot that is wet it has snow fence up you need to go out on the road and come back in on other side. Trail 47 and Trail 8 are doing good the snow is definitely better north. Ride safe and ride right. We finally got all the trackers working so enjoy. Get the groomer tracker app. Ride Right and Safe. Check out the Groomer Tracker App to see what we are doing. Let it snow! You can view LIVE Cameras on the Chippewa Snow Chasers website www.chippewasnowchasers.com and go to the cameras. Just a little reminder for all you sledders it is a lot easier for you to get off your sled and move down branches. Please stop and pick up branches and cut up trees on the trails instead of just riding around them. Thank you! CAUTION****CAUTION ***REMINDER:  If you hit the groomer we have to call the POLICE to have a report made out. So please move off the trail don’t try to squeeze by them. So again I want to stress we will call the POLICE.*** GROOMERS CAN NOT GET OFF THE TRAIL!!! YOU NEED TO MOVE OUT OF THE GROOMERS WAY! 
• Drummond Island: (12/5) The groomer was out today for the first time this season on our west end. While in town there is around 8 inches of snow along the south loop there are places that only got a couple of inches compounded with all the rain we have had this fall and not cold enough temps yet, the trails in a lot of areas are a muddy mess. We highly recommend not going on them just yet! Sorry this is not the news any of us want to hear right now. Start doing your snow dance, hope more snow and colder weather to freeze these areas up.

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​Mackinac County

• St Ignace: (12/11) With the roller coaster of weather in the last week, we are now freezing back up and going out to groom what we can this evening. Today we have been doing some trail maintenance and training. The St ignace area is very thin and wet while Trout lake area is ridable. Continue to expect early season conditions in our area for the next few days at least. We look to be missing the lake effect snow. We are out doing everything we can with the snow we have. As soon as conditions change we will be sure to update our trails reports. Thank you. WD
• Curtis: (12/14) Groomed trails from Curtis Trail 43, to 45/457 Newberry, Helmer and McMillan Spurs on Thursday evening. Friday we again groomed trails 43 from Curtis to 45/457 and also groomed trail 2 South from Trail 9 intersection to H40 Hiawatha Trail. Trail groomed up extremely well! Trail 43 gates on new trail coming into Curtis are now open and groomed. Trail 43 gate on South side of County Rd. 1140 (Sandtown Rd) that leads to Naubinway / Newberry intersection was closed last night due to water holes. Recommended temporary detour to continue on Co. Rd. 1140 / Sandtown Rd. to Forrest Trail, which is signed accordingly. Most private property gates are scheduled to be opened on Dec. 15, although random gates may remain shut in wet areas that haven't frozen down yet.
• ​Les Cheneaux/Cedarville/Hessel: (12/15) Bully 18 went on trail 491 to repair signs. It's rideable, but thin. Hope we don't lose the base, it's 34° this morning.

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