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Find Your Way: Digital Maps & The Big Wild

The new Towerman’s Watch Pathway Map in Pigeon River Country State Forest.

Last year, we began to digitize all the maps MichiganTrailMaps.com has produced over the years. Currently, we have more than 320 trail maps uploaded to our website that you can download. But not included among those are the maps in our eshop; cardstock maps, waterproof maps, or those in the books we published.

But that will change. We just completed a total update of our collection of Pigeon River Country State Forest trail maps. That includes a new map for the PRC’s newest trail, the Towerman’s Watch Pathway, and digitalized versions of Shingle Mill Pathway and Green Timbers. Shingle Mill and Green Timbers were a single cardstock map that cost $7.25 (with shipping and tax included) and usually arrived in your mailbox within a week.

Now, each one is only 99 cents, and you can get it on a mobile device instantly. We think that’s progress.

To celebrate, we asked Jim DuFresne to pen a piece on his five favorite trails in the Big Wild. Read what trails he likes best and why, then check out all our Pigeon River Country maps.



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