Mother Nature unleashed her fury and we picked up over 30" of snow over the Christmas weekend. Tonight an additional snow fall of 6-9 inches of snow is expected, before a moderate warmup is anticipated toward the end of the week along with the potential of a little rain. As we kick off the 2022/2023 snowmobile season there is a few things you should know. The details are below for specific trail grooming. Two machines up and running at this time and one being worked on and hope to have it up and running soon.
In other news we are raffling off a a 2023 Polaris Sportsman 450 Donated by Renze Power Sports.
Tickets: $100.00 each
Drawing held April 22, 2023 @ 7:00pm at the Elks Lodge in Newberry 300 tickets printed
If less than 125 tickets are sold then the raffle will revert to a 50/50 drawing.
Tickets can be purchased from: Newberry Power Sports, Halfway Lake Cottages, North Store Follow Me Outfitters, Pine Stump Restaurant, Schubach Farms Cabin Rentals, or Rich Rottier 616-550-8201.
Proceeds will go to fund trail grooming equipment! Good Luck! Stay on the Trail!! Ride Right and Be Safe!! Please be respectful of private property, howbeit it fields or peoples front yards. Curfew in the Village of Newberry is 11:00pm to 7:00am.
Trail 9: Groomed the trail yesterday and will do so again today out to Holland Lake.
Trail 45: Groomed out to County Road 500 yesterday, but did not open the gate across the marsh to the Falls yet. Today we will send just the tractor out to the 500 and work the snow in/pack and hopefully be able to open the gate. We have to be able to see just how soft is is underneath before we open the gate, but we currently believe there is plenty of snow to be able a build up a pretty strong base to do so. Fingers crossed! There will be logging on the trail shortly after you jump on Trail 45 just past the Logging museum off of M-123. There will also be logging about 3 miles North of Skyline Road off to the right. Equipment has been staged in both areas for the logging to start. Please use extreme caution in these areas! Both portions will be plowed.
Trial 9/2: Groomed around town last night, down to Rexton and over to H40. Once a machine returns our plan is to groom down to Epouffette later tonight.
Thank you to all the team at the groomers barn who puts in countless hours to keep the system groomed and maintenance on the machines!
WEATHER UPDATE via US National Weather Service Marquette Michigan >> High pressure will bring drier, sunnier weather back to the U.P. this weekend as temperatures finally return closer to normal with daytime highs in the 20s. A weak system will bring another round of light snow Sunday night into Monday, but high temperatures look to remain in the 20s for much of the next week. #miweather #keweenaw#westernup#marquette#munising #seney #newberry #soo#straitsareaHigh pressure will bring drier, sunnier weather back to the U.P. this weekend as temperatures finally return closer to normal with daytime highs in the 20s. A weak system will bring another round of light snow Sunday night into Monday, but high temperatures look to remain in the 20s for much of the next week. ... See MoreSee Less
PARADISE AREA UPDATE via Paradise Area Night Riders www.paradiseareanightriders.org >> 1/30/26 Minus 5 degrees this morning under a cloudy sky. No new snow in the last 24 hrs. but we do have about 3 feet of snow on the ground so no worries...LOL. Here`s whats been happening since my last report a couple days ago...... No bad news...the machines have been running beautifully....Mother Nature has been cooperating perfectly....and our trails are EXCELLENT!!!! The Falls trail #45, the Point trails #452 & #453 and the South trail #8 all fall into that catagory. The only blip on the radar is on the Pine Stump trails #8 & #9 but it is only minor. Our section of trail #9 is still being plowed down from the Stump to the East branch of the Two Heart by the loggers. It is no big deal, just take trail #8 around instead of #9, just like the old days. Its a touch longer but you`re out there to enjoy the ride.....right? On the bright side, they are done up by Crisp Point but it will take us a couple trips to get that back in great shape. Where is everybody?? Its been awful slow around here. COME ON U.P., You are missing out!! LET `ER SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Groomer Chris #paradise #newberry ... See MoreSee Less
NEWBERRY AREA UPDATE via Pine Stump >> 1-29 Several feet of the snow on the ground up here Trails are excellent everywhere! A little warm up coming it will be a great time to ride the trails are perfect!! #newberry #snowphotos... See MoreSee Less
NEWBERRY AREA UPDATE via TASA Tahquamenon Area Snowmobile Association >> Just entered 9, things are looking good for a great groom! 😎 10:02 PM 10.4 to second stop sign, so far it all looks like the curve there, all of it, think I learned something in the Can Am earlier today. 🤓 #newberry #snowphotos... See MoreSee Less
CURTIS AREA UPDATE via Curtis Area Trail Association >> Eventful day at Curtis area trails… Started with an awesome care package of snacks/gloves from Brian Weigel Dug out our deep snow Dubie Drag (It’s time) 6 club members came down to maintenance the machines… Now we send them out!!!!!! Great job , Great Team efforts! #curtisarea #newberry #snowphotos... See MoreSee Less
NEWBERRY AREA UPDATE via Pine Stump >> 1-28 Looks like more snow again today. Plowed once and looks like I’ll be plowing tomorrow morning as well I told people I thought we were going to have a big winter like 2014, it’s sure looking that way half way through If you haven’t been up here you’re truly missing out! #newberry #snowphotos... See MoreSee Less
PARADISE AREA UPDATE via Paradise Area Night Riders www.paradiseareanightriders.org >> 1/28/26 9 degrees this morning and snowing. I picked up 5-6" of fresh snow on my deck from last night and it looks like its supposed to snow for the next couple of days too!!! Our entire system was groomed yesterday and there`s only one way to describe it......EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, those of you who follow me know I don`t use that word very often, but I ain`t kiddin, it doesn`t get any better than this. The swamp south of town, the Falls trail, ALL of our low land trails are better than I`ve seen in a long time!!!!! If you don`t have plans on gettin U.P. here.....make `em. It won`t last forever. Thats all I have to report.....one word.....EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET `ER SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Groomer Chris #paradise #newberry ... See MoreSee Less
GRAND MARAIS AREA UPDATE via Grand Marais Sno-Trails Assoc. >> All routes groomed last night. With fresh snow everyday and low traffic it is beautiful in da woods. Drivers reporting trails are in very good condition. #grandmarais #newberryAll routes groomed last night. With fresh snow everyday and low traffic it is beautiful in da woods. Drivers reporting trails are in very good condition. ... See MoreSee Less
MUNISING AREA UPDATE via Alger County Sorva – 12/28
TRAIL REPORT, Wednesday, December 28, 2022 11:00 a.m.
STORM CLEANUP ALMOST COMPLETED!
Groomers are still cutting in the trails and building a base with great results. The Team is working hard to get this completed before Thursdays rain rolls in. Machines will be out through the daytime and nightime hours so stay alert.
FULL DETAILED REPORT HERE: https://www.algersorva.com/trailreport/12-27-2022-2/
Today’s Trail Report brought to you by: Buckhorn Resort, Munising, MI
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MUNISING AREA UPDATE via TNT Trenary Northern Trails – 12/26
The good, the bad, and the ugly…. The good is our operator is home safe and the tractor is too. The bad is that we cannot make it out of Chatham yet. That ugly is the trail is temporarily unpassable for the groomer. Stuck twice in 1/4 of a mile. Thank you to Crossroads Truck repair and Mark Whitmarsh for the tugs today! Looking forward, we are going to clean up east of Chatham tomorrow. We will be waiting until at least Wednesday if not Thursday for Chatham going west as the snow needs to settle. We have worse places to get through than we were having issues with today. The best thing some of you adventurous explorers could do is hammer down our trail for the next couple days to help the groomer get through. It isn’t the best report we could muster up, but it is the only report we have. We live to groom another day. We will get through come hell or high snow!
WEATHER UPDATE via US National Weather Service Marquette Michigan >> High pressure will bring drier, sunnier weather back to the U.P. this weekend as temperatures finally return closer to normal with daytime highs in the 20s. A weak system will bring another round of light snow Sunday night into Monday, but high temperatures look to remain in the 20s for much of the next week. #miweather #keweenaw#westernup#marquette#munising #seney #newberry #soo#straitsareaHigh pressure will bring drier, sunnier weather back to the U.P. this weekend as temperatures finally return closer to normal with daytime highs in the 20s. A weak system will bring another round of light snow Sunday night into Monday, but high temperatures look to remain in the 20s for much of the next week. ... See MoreSee Less