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Lower Michigan & the North Country

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North Woods Rookeries - In Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, herons, egrets, and bitterns raise their young in rookeries. Here's how to observe them.

Wide Awake on Lake Michigan - Sleeping Bear Dunes has lush forests, level trails, 400-foot bluffs, vast sandy beaches. And you thought the Midwest was just cornfields.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore - Short trails through forests, meadows & dunes along Lake Michigan.

Michigan's Pere Marquette - Giving brown trout a try in steelhead and salmon country.

America's Best Beaches - Including Sleeping Bear Dunes.

Ausable River - Matching the hatch in Michigan's North Country.

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