US-MI-Lake+Dubonnet


 * =Birding in Michigan=

Grand Traverse County
=Lake Dubonnet= Gonder Road Interlochen, MI 49643 [| Lake Dubonnet State Forest Campground web site] [|Lake Dubonnet Equestrian Trail Camp web site] [|Lost Lake Pathway web site]

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Lake Dubonnet
Coordinates: 44.6897248, -85.7962441 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Lake Dubonnet
Located near the Benzie-Grand Traverse County line, Lost Lake Pathway is connected to a state forest campground, providing campers a place to hike, mountain bike, or in winter to cross country ski. Lost Lake Pathway is not very hilly, making its non-threatening terrain an easy ride and popular destination for mountain bikers.

The trail system totals almost 6.5 miles with the perimeter being a 6.3-mile outing that passes three lakes and several open bogs. Most of the loop, however, is a relatively level ride through the woods. By starting at the Lake Dubonnet dam near post No. 3, you can reduce the trail to a 3.75-mile loop. The terrain is easy but interesting. The topography, transitional small sink hole lakes created by glacial debris and melting ice deposits, is typical of how the glaciers formed this region. Lake Dubonnet itself, however, was created in 1956 when a stream was dammed to improve fishing and waterfowl habitat.

Lake Dubonnet State Forest Campground, a rustic facility of 50 sites, provides drinking water and vault toilets along the first loop. Opposite of it is a trail camp for equestrians as the Michigan Shore-to-Shore Trail passes through the area. The two trails intersect but their users are carefully separated to avoid any conflicts. **Horseback riders stay on dirt roads and two-tracks and off the pathway.** From [|Lost Lake Pathway web site]

Trumpeter Swan, Wood Duck, Common Loon, Pied-billed Grebe, Turkey Vulture, Red-headed Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Eastern Phoebe, Eastern Kingbird, Tree Swallow, Hermit Thrush, Common Yellowthroat, Pine Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Chipping Sparrow, Common Grackle
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