About
Length1.5 mi
ShapeLoop
DifficultyEasy
Typical time45 min
TrailheadWindy Moraine Trail
What you'll see 🌄 Big views🏞️ Lake

This family-friendly trail is especially beautiful in the fall. Distance One 1.5-mile loop. Terrain Ascends steadily up to the scenic overlook of Glen Lake and descends rapidly afterward. The trail runs through meadows and thick forests and the moraine left by the glaciers that dredged Glen Lake. Windy Moraine is an ideal trail for exercise, seclusion, and a nice view. Vegetation: Beech-maple forest. Comments: Windy Moraine Trail is self-guided trail with a biodiversity theme. As the trail follows a modest incline up a moraine left 10,000 years ago from the last glacier from farm fields through a beech-maple forest, you'll see evidence of the connection between landscape features and the web of life, learn about the "edge effect" where forest meets field, find signs of early settlers, and understand how nature reclaims a landscape. Exhibits will illustrate Michigan's state soil that some call "loamy gold;" compare a natural plant community to a pine plantation; and reveal the wide variety of different life forms that make up a healthy natural community. Watch for poison ivy, especially as you enter the forest after the old orchard. Pets are NOT allowed on trail from December 1 to March 31. First time hiking in the lakeshore? Follow these tips Windy Moraine

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