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Let’s Ride

Updates on motorsport trails

Anyone else notice how the weather changed its mind as much as your spouse changes his/her mind when ordering fast food? This reporter was going to write about this past Monday’s Keweenaw ATV Club Meeting, but when some areas were hit with enough snow to ride their sleds on the State Owned ...

The winter that wasn’t

The winter of 2023-24 will go down as the winter that never happened. The snow and temperature numbers of this winter that is a good reason to buy the snowfall chart compiled by the Gazette. With the cancellation of this weekend’s Wildlife Refuge Cabins – Pat’s Motorsports Mid America ...

Snowmobile hillclimb canceled this weekend

The popular Snowmobile and Snow Bike Hillclimb that was scheduled for this weekend is another casualty to the low-snow winter the area has been under. Not only does the hill already show signs of dirt, the forecast is not conducive to a major snowstorm. “After talking to two of our past ...

Next weekend is free snowmobile weekend

Every winter, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources offers a weekend when residents and nonresidents do not have to purchase a Snowmobile Trail Permit or even pay registration fees to the Secretary of State. That weekend this year is next weekend, February 9-11. The DNR website states, ...

Let’s ride old vintage sleds!

The segment of snowmobiling that continues to grow is vintage snowmobiling. Different groups and businesses throughout the Copper Country will once again have vintage snowmobile rides this winter. Scott Collins of Baraga County and the Michigan Tech Sledheads will once again bring the old ...

Trail restoration project celebrates completion

Supporters and partners joined the Michigan Department of Natural Resources today in Houghton County to celebrate the reopening of a roughly 8-mile segment of snowmobile and off-road vehicle trail devastated by a historic storm in 2018. In what is likely the Michigan DNR’s largest trail ...