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6.
Seney National Wildlife Refuge
From Munising the drive sidles east on Rte. 28 across a flat expanse of forestland before
turningsouthonRte.77toSeneyNationalWildlifeRefuge.Noavidanglerorbird-watcher
shouldmissthiswealthofwilderness—nearly100,000acresofwetlandsdottedwithdrain-
age ditches, dikes, and small bridges. Visitors to these wild marshes can hear the cries of
more than 200 kinds of birds: the whistled notes of the wood duck, the honk of the Canada
goose, the high-pitched screech of the bald eagle, or the rare bray of the trumpeter swan.
Motoristscancruisetheseven-mileMarshlandWildlifeDrive(betweenmid-Mayandmid-
October), while hikers and bikers have 70 miles of gravel roads from which to choose.
At nearby Seney the drive crosses the Fox River, believed by some to be the setting for
Ernest Hemingway's classic fishing story,
Big Two-Hearted River
(the real Two-Hearted
River is actually many miles away). The celebrated author, whose family traveled from
Chicago to summer at Walloon Lake in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, wrote fondly of
the trout stream, “pebbly-bottomed with shallows and big boulders” and the trout “keep-
ing themselves steady in the current with wavering fins” and changing their positions “by
quick angles, only to hold steady in the fast water again.”
DOGSLEDDING IN THE UPPER
PENINSULA
If you've ever wondered what it's like to stand on the runners of a sled and be pulled
by a group of athletic Huskies through the scenic wilderness, then perhaps you might
want to try one of the many dogsledding adventures being offered in the Upper Pen-
insula. A musher will accompany you as you traverse through the north woods, and
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