Greg-

If you are looking for dayhiking places close by, your best bets are (not in any
particular order):

1) The City Forest
2) Pine Haven
3) The Stubway (which you can get to via an under the highway trail from Pine
Haven or Burns Road which is off of W. River Road where is curves to the North
when you are driving North from US10).

The Stubway has the most miles of trails, is unsigned, and you likely won't
see anyone else out there even if you go all day. If you like this option but
want more details about how to get to the hikes, let me know. Ray's Bike shop
downtown has a fairly crude trail map of that place that they will give you a
free copy of.

The other two (#1 and 2) are both well signed and have some nice bridges. The
city forest has some mountain biking obstances too.

If you are looking for places in Michigan (or close) that are not a short drive
away:

1) Picture Rocks National Lakeshore (between Munising and Grand Marais, MI)
2) South Manitou Island (accessible by ferry boat from Leland, MI) There is a
lighthouse, graveyard, old buildings, huge white cedar trees, monster dunes that
go right down into Lake Michigan, and deserted rocky and sandy beaches.
3) Lake Superior Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada North of Sault Ste Marie.
I've seen 5 wolves in this park. They have mountainous terrain, rugged
coastline, 85 foot waterfalls, and a large number of great hikes. (One of my
favorite places and only about a 6 hour drive from Midland.)

If you are looking for great dayhiking places to go on a trip to, I'd highly
recommend:

1) Glacier National Park (Montana)
2) Zion National Park (Utah)
3) Arches National Park (Utah)
4) Tongass National Forest (Juneau Alaska area)
5) Kauai (Hawaii)
6) anywhere in the Canadian Rockies (Banff, Jasper, Kootsney, Mt. Robson, Yoho,
etc.) This is an absolutely beautiful place.

As far as hiking partners, there are a lot of good people in this club.
Hopefully someone else will respond. My summer is crazy! I'm out of state more
than I'm home. I haven't even been on the mountain bike once yet this year.
Good luck, ask more questions if I didn't give enough detail.

-Roy



--- In midlandhikingclub@yahoogroups.com, "outdoor582" <need.a.challenge999@...>
wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new to the club and still relatively new to Midland. Looking for both
suggestions on day hikes and people to go with. Suggestions and invitations
would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Greg
>