Around ten miles
Michigan hikes around 10 miles
If you are looking for roughly a 10-mile hiking day, these routes fall between about nine and twelve miles using mileage published by the managing agency.
By Chris Izworski · Official route sources checked August 28, 2026
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Every mileage number on this page comes from the National Park Service, Michigan DNR or U.S. Forest Service source linked on that route. The live planner can then add road routing, current weather, DNR access changes and mapped route metadata when you open a place. A published route length is not a statement that the trail is open or suitable today.
Route shapes in this set: 1 loops, 1 out-and-backs, 3 point-to-point routes and 0 trail networks. These counts describe the verified catalog on this page; they are not estimates of every trail in Michigan.
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Chapel Loop
Forest, Lake Superior cliff-top trail and beach approaches
- Chapel Falls
- Chapel Rock
- Lake Superior cliffs
- Mosquito Falls
Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park
Big Carp River Trail
Escarpment descent, river valley and old-growth forest
- waterfalls
- old-growth forest
- Lake Superior
Huron-Manistee National Forests
Manistee River Trail
Narrow river-bank trail with forest, seeps, tributaries and suspension-bridge access
- Manistee River views
- spring-fed waterfalls
- tributary creeks
Wilderness State Park
North Country Trail through Wilderness State Park
Long forest crossing through a largely undeveloped state park
- North Country Trail
- remote forest
- Lake Michigan wilderness
Isle Royale National Park - Rock Harbor
Mount Franklin from Rock Harbor
Full-day boreal-forest hike with a steep climb to the Greenstone Ridge overlook
- Mount Franklin
- Greenstone Ridge
- Lake Superior
- Canadian mainland views
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