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Mi-TRALE
Map Pages: (all 7): SF, RC, PN, LL, F-G, ES, CR-G
Width: 72"
Length: 500
Traffic: Little
County Rds Open to ORVs: Yes
Forest Rds Open to ORVs: Yes

Michigan Trails and Recreation Alliance of the Land and Environment, Mi-TRALE, is a Club in the western UP of Michigan. They have designated several preferred routes and trails with their own naming convention. This naming convention consists of 1 to 3 letters, usually an abbreviation of the road or trail. The Bill Nichols ORV Route, for example, is named "BN" in Mi-TRALE's system. The Club offers a map locally that covers their entire system.

There are a bit over 200 miles of Preferred Routes and Local Trails and another 250 miles of State Designated ORV System. These routes and trails are marked with black letters on white backgrounds (note our experience has found the markings to be inconsistent).

About half of their system is comprised of alternate names for existing ORV Routes that are part of Michigan's Designated ORV System. The remainder are a combination of forest and county roads. Some trails are designated as "preferred routes" meaning these are the suggested way Mi-TRALE recommends you travel between locations; others are "local trails" indicating suggested travel ways that generally use existing (marked) snowmobile trail.

Please note that several of the preferred routes terminate at a State or Federal Highway and ORV travel on these highways is illegal. For example the "PN" preferred route starts and ends at US-41; "C" stops at US-45 near Paulding, continuing on either side, but separated by 1/3 of a mile of this Federal Highway that is not open to ORVs.

A GPX file is available for download, providing approximate track logs for the preferred routes and local trails. It can be used in your GPS if it supports track logs or viewed on your computer in various programs, such as Google Earth or Garmin's MapSource.

Large overview map of the Mi-TRALE system also available.

Part of the State's Designated ORV System:

Trail Name	Description (linked to our map for each trail)
BN	Bill Nichols ORV Route
BP	Baraga Plains ORV Trail
HC	Hancock ORV Route (Hancock to Calumet)
ICR	State Line ORV Route (Iron River - Crystal Falls, aka Iron County Recreational Trail)
IRM	Iron River ORV Route (Iron River - Marensico)
NF	Freda Grade ORV Route (South Range to Freda)
SB	Bergland to Sidnaw ORV Route
SL	State Line ORV Route (Iron River - Florence, WI)

Specific to Mi-TRALE:

Name	Description	Type	Map Page(s)
BLA	County Roads from US-45 to just north of Bass Lake. (Bass Lake Rd - Old US-45)	Preferred	LL
C	Rockland/Greenland/Mass City connector. Uses county and forest roads. (Depot Ridge, Caledonia and part of Snowmobile Trail 13)	Local	F-G
CE	County Roads from CR to Bergland - Sidnaw ORV Route. (Choate Rd)	Preferred	CR-G, ES, LL
CR	County Roads from county line to Paulding to Bergland-Sidnaw ORV Route just west of Trout Creek. (County Line Lake - Two Mile - Sleepy Hollow - short gap of US-45 that's not open to ORVs - Bond Falls - Calderwood - One Mile)	Preferred	CR-G, ES, LL
E	County and Forest Roads from White Pine to NR via PF	Local	F-G, PN
ES	County Roads from Bergland - Sidnaw ORV Route to Iron River ORV Route, along Lake Gogebic. Does not fully connect to Iron River ORV Route as portion of US-2 separates county roads.	Preferred	ES
F	County Roads from Ontonagon to Greenland (Firesteel Rd)	Preferred	F-G
G	County Roads from Trout Creek to Mass City (Gardner - Mud Creek - Red Shed - Branch - Depot Ridge)	Preferred	F-G
LL	Snowmobile Trail 3 from Watersmeet south to Wisconsin border, Land O Lakes. Note: Connects to Vilas county which has no ORV trails/etc. in WI.	Preferred	LL
NR	County Roads from Bergland - Sidnaw ORV Route at Matchwood to Ontonagon. (Norwich Rd)	Preferred	CR-G, ES, F-G, PN
P	County and Forest Roads from Bergland to Rockland, using Snowmobile Trail 13. Also Known As the Pioneer Trail	Local	CR-G, ES, F-G, PN
PF	County and Forest Roads from E to NR (part of White Pine connector)	Preferred	F-G, PN
PN	County Road (Old M-64) unaccessible to ORVs since it terminates at M-64, State highway.	Preferred	PN
RC	Ripley to Calumet, Snowmobile Trail 3 from Hancock to Lake Linden to Calumet)	Local	RC, SF
SF	Snowmobile Trail 120, from Freda Grade ORV Route south/east to Bill Nichols ORV Route	Local	SF