Les Cheneaux Shoreline LbNA #65309
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 21, 2013 |
| Location: | The Nature Conservancy |
| City: | Cedarville |
| County: | Mackinac |
| State: | Michigan |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Isadora  |
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| Found by: | TJ_Mich |
| Last found: | Aug 20, 2014 |
| Status: | FFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | Jul 21, 2013 |
Travel on M-134 approximately 20 miles past Cedarville and Hessel through the Les Cheneauz Islands. The term "Les Cheneaux," (pronounced "Lay-Shen-O") roughly translated from the original French, is "the channels." Bordering the northern edge of Lake Huron along the southeastern lip of the Michigan Upper Peninsula (known endearingly as the UP), these "channels" are actually a 36-island archipelago arrayed along Lake Huron east of St. Ignace (the departure point for the area’s most famous tourist destination - Mackinac Island). These diverse islands, a few as small as a residential lot in the Detroit suburbs, are testament to the last glacial retreat from the Great Lakes some 12,000 years ago. From the perspective of nature tourism (our abiding interest), the Les Cheneaux serves as an entryway to the unspoiled (and relatively unknown) wild lands of the Michigan Upper Peninsula.
Just past the Michigan Limestone Operations dolomite mine drive (gated) on the right you will find an unmarked dirt parking lot. This is the Nature Conservancy Shoreline trail. The Nature Conservancy has preserved large sections of the Les Cheneaux shoreline, which gives added privacy and protection to those who live here. They create a beautifully intact stretch of Northern Lake Huron, one that will be forever undisturbed.
Locate the beginning of the trail at the big rocks near the shoreline. Follow the shoreline trail taking care to keep the water in sight. Continue about one half mile along a path padded by many pine needles to a clearing with an abandoned camp stove. You are almost there. A few paces further, onto the large rocks, with the camp stove in view, is a rocky clearing with a view of the water. Just before the deep crevice, at the base of two pine trees, you will find the box hidden under two rocks.
Please be sure to reseal baggies and the box carefully so it will stay dry during the cold winter and replace carefully, completely hidden from view.
If you have time, climb over the rocks and continue on the trail. Rumor has it that there is an abandoned cabin near the end.
Just past the Michigan Limestone Operations dolomite mine drive (gated) on the right you will find an unmarked dirt parking lot. This is the Nature Conservancy Shoreline trail. The Nature Conservancy has preserved large sections of the Les Cheneaux shoreline, which gives added privacy and protection to those who live here. They create a beautifully intact stretch of Northern Lake Huron, one that will be forever undisturbed.
Locate the beginning of the trail at the big rocks near the shoreline. Follow the shoreline trail taking care to keep the water in sight. Continue about one half mile along a path padded by many pine needles to a clearing with an abandoned camp stove. You are almost there. A few paces further, onto the large rocks, with the camp stove in view, is a rocky clearing with a view of the water. Just before the deep crevice, at the base of two pine trees, you will find the box hidden under two rocks.
Please be sure to reseal baggies and the box carefully so it will stay dry during the cold winter and replace carefully, completely hidden from view.
If you have time, climb over the rocks and continue on the trail. Rumor has it that there is an abandoned cabin near the end.