{ "item_title" : "Michigan Cycling Trail Guide 2027 - 2028", "item_author" : [" Colven H. Brackley "], "item_description" : "Which Michigan bike trail matches your schedule, skill, and style?Michigan Cycling Trail Guide 2027-2028 answers that question region by region, not with a ranked list of best trails but with the mileage, surface type, trailhead address, and seasonal riding window you need before you load the bike rack. Author Colven H. Brackley built this guide the way a working cyclist actually plans a trip: by base town first, trail type second. Eight chapters move south to north across both peninsulas. Metro Detroit opens the book with the Dequindre Cut, the Clinton River Trail, and Paint Creek Trail - the 1983 original that started Michigan's rail-trail movement. West Michigan carries the Kal-Haven Trail's 33-mile run to the Lake Michigan shoreline. Central Michigan covers the 92-mile Fred Meijer White Pine Trail and the river-crossing finish at Midland's Tridge. Traverse City and the Leelanau Peninsula pair bayfront pavement with wine-country miles and singletrack built for a continental ski-racing championship course. The Sunrise Coast traces Little Traverse Bay toward Mackinaw City. A dedicated chapter walks through the Mackinac Straits crossing, including the one detail most guides skip: cyclists cannot ride the bridge itself, and this book explains exactly how the shuttle works. The Upper Peninsula closes with Marquette's seventy-five miles of singletrack and Copper Harbor's nationally recognized flow-trail system, built by a town of roughly a hundred people. A closing chapter ties the state together: three built itineraries, a riding calendar by region, and the festivals worth planning a trip around. Every trail entry carries verified mileage and surface data checked against trail conservancies, county parks departments, and the Michigan DNR - crushed limestone against asphalt, a two percent grade against a technical climb, a free trailhead against one that needs a Recreation Passport. Tip boxes, mileage charts, and caution callouts flag the details that actually change a ride: a road crossing, a ferry schedule, a black-fly season. Five appendixes back the whole book: a full trail-by-trail reference chart, a glossary, seasonal packing checklists, an event calendar, and the contact information to get a same-week answer when a figure has shifted since publication. This is not a brochure dressed up as a guidebook. It is a working reference for riders who plan by base town and base their decisions on numbers they can check, not adjectives they can't. A weekend on the Paint Creek Trail or a week sampling the Iron Belle corridor from Detroit to the Straits - either way, the route, the mileage, and the season are already worked out on the page in front of you. Families looking for a short, flat ride near Detroit, tourers mapping a multi-day Up North loop, and mountain bikers heading for Copper Harbor's singletrack all get the same standard of detail. A pronunciation guide for Michigan's trickier place names and a rail-trail glossary round out a book built for first-time visitors and lifelong Michiganders alike. Pack the panniers, load the bike rack, and let this guide pick the route for you. Order your copy today and start planning the Michigan ride you've been putting off.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/052/9798160527239_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.95", "online_price" : "15.95", "our_price" : "15.95", "club_price" : "15.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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