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Bay View Trail

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakshore

The Bay View Trail has a total of 8 miles of trails divided into loops through a beech-maple forest, fields and a pine plantation. Lookout Point gives a panoramic view of Lake Michigan and the surrounding countryside. The trail along the edge of the woods on top of the bluff overlooks fields of wildflowers and former farmland with Lake Michigan in the background.

Bayview Trail Fields
Sleeping Bear Dunes Natl Lakeshore Website
Bayview Trail Through Woods
Sleeping Bear Dunes Natl Lakeshore Website
Thoreson Farm from Bayview Trail
Sleeping Bear Dunes Natl Lakeshore Website

What you can do here

Fee, Parking, Birding, Hiking, Snowshoeing, Cross-Country Skiing, Scenic Viewing

Thoreson Road
Maple City, MI 49664
GPS: 44.93438, -85.94954
Hours: Dawn to Dusk