Michigan Western UP ATV Overland Part 1
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- This video is part one of a five day overland of ATV trail riding in the western portion of the U.P. of Michigan. We started the overland in Iron River, MI and spent the first night in Ontonagon, MI. This trip is with my son Kyle and my good friend Jim. A great day on the trails with lots to see. Enjoy!
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There's nothing like ATVing in the Superior state! I was living in Nashville, Tn many years ago and found out there was a Veterans memorial ride in the Newberry/Seney area coming up. I threw my Yamaha Grizzly in the back of my Chevy work van and drove up to Michigan to see some family back home in the lower peninsula then headed to the UP for the ride. It was easily the best ATV trip I have ever done. Great people and a great turn out, there must have been about 75 ATVs and a few side by sides as they were a new thing at the time. It was put on by the Fox River Motel in Seney. I know the owners at the time sold the place a few years later.
Thank you for sharing your story. I stayed at the Fox River Motel with my wife back in 2018ish. At that time, the owner, a Ferris State University graduate out of the Plastics/Elastomer program happily checked us into our room. We shared stories of Big Rapids and Ferris State. I'm not sure he is still the current owner, but our interaction with him made it feel like home. The U.P. is a magical place that is loved by many that visit it.
Your adventure of a spur of the moment trip from such a long distance is telling and just amazing. Thanks again for posting and paying respects to the veterans of this great country. If you are a veteran, thank you so much for your service.
FAntastic video. Best ATV UP vid I've seen. Great job on this. ❤ 👍👍👍
Thank you for visiting the channel and watching this video. This overland was my favorite. There was so much to see. I appreciate the feedback and encouragement.
Beautiful area to ride love the camaraderie between most ohv riders thanks for taking us along
Thank you Jeremy for visiting the channel and watching the video(s). The feedback is helpful and encouraging. I am glad you enjoyed it. I have a new video coming out tomorrow about a recent mishap with my ATV. If interested, please consider checking it out!
Cool video neighbor. Can't wait to see what the rest of the trip looks like. I'm not a fan of mud and I definitely held my breath when you entered a couple of those holes.
Hey Rob! Thanks for watching. This was an awesome trip and I want to do something similar again very soon. This year was the first time I have not done an overland since 2018 and I missed it. This setup with the camera was my first attempt on the helmet and could have been better. My current setup is with a new helmet and a well placed camera. The mud and waterholes that we ran into on the trail was limited to the Bluffs area and later, a snowmobile trail we were not suppose to be on. Probably best since that snowmobile trail was loaded with ticks!
We did a similar route in September, camped along the way. We started in Hurley(live there). Doing it again this year
Thank you for visiting the channel and watching this video. You are so lucky! To live near all of this, wow! The U.P. is heavenly.
ATV Trips are the best. Those woods trails look like a lot of fun to ride. My friends and I travel across Newfoundland, Canada every year and it takes us about 8 days and 800 miles. I make videos similar this about them each year.
Thank you for visiting the channel and watching this video(s). I am going to checkout your channel. The trip you have described sounds glorious! What a great adventure! Lucky you.
Really great place to be driving at, looks like a nice trip
The overlook off the bluffs was beautiful and the trip up on the quads was awesome. Thank you for visiting the channel and watching the video.
Nice video. Really like the trails!
Many, those trail SxS look like they’re 10ft tall by 2 ft wide. They look incredible tippy.
Thank you for the comment. Except for the Mass City Bluffs area, most of the routes/trails were wide and flat.
Those are some pretty awesome trails you have out there. Enjoyed the video and the laughs
Thank you for visiting the channel and watching this video. We had a great trip and we always seem to find fun in whatever adventures are before us. This area of Michigan's UP is highly recommended. I very much enjoyed this trip.
Great video. Looks like a really fun trip. Thanks for sharing. Would love to check it out!
Thank you so much Brad for checking out the channel and the video! I appreciate the feedback as it helps me know what people like. Your time is appreciated!
I very much enjoyed the overland in the UP. I especially liked driving across the Houghton/Hancock bridge and seeing the rocket range. That is in Part 3 I believe. I hope you are able to take a similar trip. It is worth it.
Great video thanks for sharing 👍
What type of machine are you and your buddies riding?
Thank you for visiting the channel and watching this video. I appreciate the video feedback. My friend Jim's side-by-side is a Honda Pioneer 500 2018 I believe. My son Kyle's quad is a 2018 Polaris Sportsman 850. My quad is a 2018 Polaris Sportsman 570. We drive a lot of 50" trails and we have electric power steering on both. That was a good choice!
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I would one like to take an adventure like you did but I am not sure if my little Suzuki king quad 300 4x4 would make that distance or should I say my body!
The routes are mostly smooth. I do not know a whole lot about the vast array of quad mfg. I am familiar with Polaris, CanAm, and Yamaha. If your Suzuki is comfortable driving down a dirt road, that is 80%+ of the routes in this almost 450 mile overland trip.
Hello I really enjoyed your video so much that we are going to visit could you please give the info of the most southern part of were you started so I can try to get info we are coming from Indiana any info would be greatly appreciated
Thank you for visiting the channel and checking out the videos! I am glad these are helpful and have inspired you to base a trip around them. This inspires me to keep making videos! Thank you so much. At 25 seconds, the video shows the entire trip and at 30 seconds, it shows the route map starting at Iron River, MI. This would be the most southern portion of the trip. Here is a link that uses Google Maps that will get you from the Mackinaw Bridge to Iron River at just over 4 hours and 234 miles.
www.google.com/maps/dir/Mackinaw+City,+MI/Iron+River,+Michigan/@46.138093,-87.803979,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x4d358b3940a9ad83:0xeac771ab20cc7a7a!2m2!1d-84.7271465!2d45.7774987!1m5!1m1!1s0x4d53ff877677f4b7:0x58d0c7795c72c41e!2m2!1d-88.6423544!2d46.0927322!3e0
The most adventurous and interesting days for me in this video series is Part #2 and Part #3. In Part #2, crossing through the grasslands and navigating over bridge obstacles and low lands was a blast. Caution, watch for ticks. Then crossing the Portage Lake Bridge, super awesome. Then Part #3, seeing the NASA rocket range and the camp area was tons of fun. During the first week of June, the mosquitos were terrible at the NASA Rocket Range. If you would like the navigation file in GPX, KML, and/or GeoJSON, I'd be happy to send it your way if you provide an email address. In the UP this late in the year, it is cold and perhaps some snow accumulation already. Safe travels and enjoy!
We're really enjoying the video series so far. Is this trip doable on an orv (wider than 50") or is much of it atv routes?
Thank you for visiting the channel and watching the videos. I am delighted that you are enjoying the ATV Western UP video series! Every trail and road we used would legally accommodate all side-by-sides. It is a perfect trip for any size ATV or side-by-side. I hope you take the trip and enjoy it like we did. A heads up, we ran into some ticks in the grassy areas in Parts 1 and 2.
@@MyLifesReward Thanks so much for your reply. I think this would be a fun trip for my family and I or even with some buddies. I'll have to see if I can find and plot out the route, based on your route images in your videos. I'd love to do this on my diesel Arctic Cat atv but if it's a family trip, we'd have the Pioneer 1000 with us too.
@@TinyTJ04 I’d be happy to send you our gps file in a format that works for you. I have ink, fox, and gson.
What does your bracket look like that is holding your Rotopax fuel tank in the back? I need to do something similar to my 570 and curious how you have attached it to the rear of your rack.
Thank you for visiting the channel and watching this video. I mounted it using a RotopaX bracket with some clamps and hefty plastic zip ties onto the back rack. Your question is timely and a bit of a premonition! A few days ago, I placed on my weekly TH-cam video list for 4/8 the creation and release of a video that goes through the RotopaX lineup, what we have on our ATV's and close-up videos and/or photos of the mounting methods. There will be a companion article on my website the same day that will provide additional details. If you would please, check back next week and you will have all of the details. In the meantime, this is the bracket acquired from Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LRDVZHA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
More info to come in next week's video! My website URL is mylifesreward.com/
@@MyLifesReward Appreciate the reply and info and will be looking forward to your upcoming video(s).
To help better answer your question, the related video as promised has been posted. Please see my website post that has photos and the related video. Thank you so much for your question! Here is the website post link: mylifesreward.com/index.php/2022/04/08/overview-of-our-rotopax-setup/
What gps do you have?
Thank you for visiting the channel and watching this video. I use the GPS on an iPhone and/or an iPad, mostly the iPad. I do have a Garmin Oregon GPS and a Delorme PN-40. But, I find using GaiaGPS with my iOS devices works really well.