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Cadillac / Baldwin Area Trail Report – Wolf Lake Motel and Resort – 01/21

Hi All, more snow is just what the doctor ordered. Trails are sweet. Come up and ride during the week with smooth trails and hardly any traffic. Call us at 231 745 4101 8am until 10pm for snowmobile rentals and room reservations.


We are members of Baldwin Trailriders, IATA (Irons), Wellston and Benzie/Manistee Snowmobile Clubs, plus the Michigan Snowmobile Association (MSA)that maintain your great trails. Remember trails can change with temperature fluctuations and traffic, when I ride I tell you what I seen, so don’t shoot the messenger if the trails get blown out after my ride.


Our On site Snowmobile rentals are ready to go for the season on December 1st, weather permitting. Plus we do have gift certificates available for that hard to buy for person. Get them an ATV, Snowmobile Rental or Lake Front room Gift Certificate. They will love it.



We are members of the Cycle Conservation Club of Michigan (Motorcycle and ORV Club), Baldwin Trailriders Snowmobile Club, Irons Area Tourist Association (ATV and Snowmobile Club), Wellston Area Recreation and Tourist Bureau (Snowmobile Club), Benzie-Manistee Snowbirds (Snowmobile Club), Lake County ORV Club and the Michigan Snowmobile Association. These are the local grooming clubs, in which we help support all of your favorite sports. When I go to an area, I always buy the new map for the season from the local snowmobile or ORV club. Trails may change and so do the maps. But I always spend my hard earned money, only with the businesses that support my sport. All those advertisers on the Snowmobile or ORV Club maps are the people, that help make those trails possible for all of us to ride. Just my two cents.



We have rooms available for this week and weekend. Gas is only $3.09 a gallon, so what are you waiting for? We are snowmobilers too, and know if there isn’t enough snow to ride, I don’t want to ride in the dirt either, so if you reserve a room and there isn’t enough snow to ride, just give us a call and cancel your room with no penalties. But if there is enough snow we expect you to keep your reservation. If you need a room in this area, just give us a call at 231-745-4101, office hours are 8am until 10pm and if we don’t have a room, we will try our best to find you a room, so call soon to get your room reserved or they will be all gone. We do have some discounts at the casino and a few local restaurants to save you even more money.


Check out the WOLFCAM for the snow totals.


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I CAN NOT SAY THIS ENOUGH, WEEKDAY RIDING IS THE BEST. SMOOTH TRAILS AND LESS TO NO TRAFFIC.


We are a pet friendly Resort, but you can’t leave your pet unattended in the room unless it’s in a cage or kennel while you are out riding. We love pets, but we love our carpet too.


Make sure you STOP when they see the groomers so they can move by. It’s really dangerous to have riders keep moving when the groomers pass. Make sure you wave and show your support. Also, please stay off the ribbon so it will set up, and the trails will stay smoother longer.


Here is a list of the snowmobile trails in this area, are you ready? The Baldwin trails, (146 miles) go west to Reed City and south from here to Newaygo, Irons trails wrap around Wolf Lake and then heads north, east and west for 122 miles and connects to Cadillac and Wellston trails, Cadillac trails connect into the Irons and Wellston trails all the way to Cadillac, then south to Leroy, they groom 124 miles, Wellston trails goes west to connect to Cadillac trails and south to the Irons Trails and west to Freesoil for 68 miles and north to the, Benzie/Manistee trail system. The Pere Marquette trail connects to The Baldwin trail and all the way to Evart and up to Leroy 144 miles, the south Pere Marquette trail goes to Grand Rapids, I think about 140 miles, then north the Benzie/Manistee trail goes all the way to the Maple City another 147 miles I think. Let’s total this up, 146 + 122 + 124 + 68 + 144 + 140 + 147 = 891 in groomed connecting trails just in this area alone and we are right in the middle of them. I know most of the groomer operators and their schedules, so if it’s bumpy one way, we know which way to go, to have smooth trails. I don’t know about you but that’s a ton of riding. Now there is more trails to get to, but that would be just over kill and this is not even counting the hundreds of miles of the two tracks and seasonal roads that you can ride. Why spent an extra $200 to $300 in fuel to get to Gaylord or the UP when we have fantastic riding right here.


There are over 890 miles of connecting groomed trails that run through this area and surrounding areas, so why would you want to go anywhere else? Plus miles and miles of two tracks and seasonal roads. We have two bedroom lake front rooms with full kitchens, living rooms with a sofa sleeper, (sleeps 6 – $99 a night), double lake front rooms with a queen and full beds and a kitchenette and dining table and chairs (sleeps 4 – $79 a night). Double motel rooms with two double beds and a mini fridge, (sleeps 4 – $53 a night) and single motel rooms with one full bed, (sleeps 2 – $39 a night) and our large Bunk House which has two bed rooms with queen bunk beds and a queen sofa sleeper, full kitchen, full living room, a breakfast bar and a fireplace (sleeps 10 – $ 149 a night). We have something for everyone.


Visit us at www.wolflakemotel.com or call toll free 877-745-4101 or from a cell call 231 745 4101, office hours are 8am until 10pm 7 days of the week. See you soon on the trails.

January 21, 2011 |

Benzie Area Trail Reports – 01/21

Benzie Area Trail Report – Honor Motel – 01/20

There is plenty of snow on the ground in Benzie County. We had 8 inches of that white fluffy stuff fall just this week. A clipper is dumping 3-6 inches tonight and several more inches of lake effect snow is predicted throughout the day
tomorrow.

Trail #3 was last groomed on Wednesday, our riding guests report today that trail conditions are good to very good. Should be great riding after tonight and tomorrow’s expected snowfall, but dress warm, fridgid air is here for the weekend!

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Benzie-Manistee Snowmobile Club – 01/21

We had many riders, trails are good to excellent, 5 inches or more of wet snow very much ride-able. Grooming is done 4 days a week, by 3 groomers at different parts of our trail every Mon, Wed, Fri, and Sat. nights, also as needed. Groomed reports: All out today South #1 groomer does Kaleva to High Bridge back to Kaleva, next day #1 south does Kaleva thru Bear Lake spur, thru Copemish to near-by Thompsonville. Middle #2 groomer Copemish spur, Beulah spur and around East Leg loop . North #3 groomer does Ayls Worth Rd. to Maple City. Trail conditions: The trail is good to excellent, some base (fluff doesn’t pack good) but new wet snow will make it better, come ride. Weather forecast: We have gotten 8 inches of fluffy snow over week. Started Thursday 5:30pm great wet snow possible 5 to 8 inches in some places, with blowing drifts, colder temps and – 4 wind chill. They may have got it right this time with our 5in and still coming down. It was predicted for lake effect flurries with Arctic blast temps frigid -0 wind chills all weekend. They are calling for lake effect flurries at night with -0 to single digits temps, daytime in single digit to teen’s with -4 wind chill. Join us Saturday at club open house, from 10 am to 4 pm, to warm and meet or visit others there.

More info on our web about who to contact www.benziemanisteesnowbirds.com

Benzie Visitor Bureau – 01/21

TGIF! Trails are looking pretty good and that base is building back up as we speak since we had a bit of a LE system come thru last night thru today dropping anywhere from 3- 8″! Groomers were out Wednesday night and again today! Brrrr! Cold temps, down near zero ar night and only low teens for a high for few couple days so bundle up in the layers! Note! When you are in the area, stop in to the Snowbirds clubhouse, Saturdays thru Jan & Feb! Every Saturday 10am -4pm. is Open House day at the Club! Everyone’s welcome to stop by to warmup and visit! Please, do me a favor…to keep ALL parts of the trails open for us, STAY ON THE TRAIL! This means YOU! Its not just a given that we get every inch of trail for our fun. We gotta stay on track at all times! By the way, those groomers are out there volunteering their time and energy to us, so if ya see one, get outta their way and give them a thumbs up as they go by! THANKS TONS to Steve from Cincinnati, Stormi, Jeff, and Todd for the emails and pics! I LOVE them! Ride smart, sober, & safe! CYA ON THE TRAILS! Carol

January 21, 2011 |
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