Describes fifty of the best hikes in Michigan's beautiful Upper Peninsula.

Eric Hansen has hiked and backpacked extensively and now divides his time between the mountains and canyons of the West and the woods and waters of the northern Great Lakes. After twenty years of exploring Michigan's Upper Peninsula, he hiked nearly 900 miles to research this guidebook. He has written extensively for Backpacker magazine. His regional outdoor writing appeared in Milwaukee Magazine, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal, Shepherd Express, Silent Sports magazine, and Wisconsin Trails magaine.

Acknowledgments Introduction Western Region 1. Horseshoe Harbor 2. Estivant Pines Loop 3. Bare Bluff 4. Black River Waterfalls 5. Presque Isle River Waterfalls Loop 6. Shining Clouds Falls 7. Lake Superior Shoreline 8. Lake Superior/Big Carp River Loop 9. Little Carp River Cascades 10. Mirror Lake Loop 11. Escarpment 12. Union River Cascades Loop 13. Trap Hills Loop 14. Trap Hills Traverse 15. Norwich Bluff 16. Norwich Bluff to Victoria 17. Tibbets Falls/Oren Krumm Shelter 18. Canyon Falls 19. Craig Lake 20. White Deer Lake 21. Falls of the Yellow Dog 22. Little Garlic River 23. Clark Lake Loop l24. Deer Island Lake 25. Piers Gorge Eastern Region 26. Laughing Whitefish Falls 27. Rock River Falls 28. Grand Island Loop 29. Olson Falls 30. Miner's Falls 31. Pictured Rocks 32. Chapel Loop 33. Beaver Lake Loop 34. Au Sable Point/Logslide 35. Grand Sable Dunes Loop 36. Bruno's Run Loop 37. Seney National Wildlife Refuge 38. Mouth of the Blind Sucker River 39. Two Hearted River 40. Tahquamenon West /NCT 41. Giant Pines Loop 42. Tahquamenon Falls 43. Naomikong Point 44. Cedar River Loop 45. Portage Bay 46. Birch Point 47. Pt. Patterson/Cataract River 48. Maple Hill 49. Horseshoe Bay 50. Marble Head Appendix A: Hike Finder Appendix B: Useful Addresses for More Information About The Author