Nordhouse Dunes M9-7
Trailheads Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness - Nurnberg Trailhead Drive there · Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Area Drive there
Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness - Nurnberg Trailhead the Forest Service's write-up
Day use fees are required at Nurnberg Trailhead for day-use and dispersed overnight camping access. If dispersed camping in the Wilderness Area, a day use pass much be purchased per day. <ul> <li>Day - $5.00 (6AM – 10PM)</li> <li>Week - $15.00</li> </ul> Credit/Debit cards are accepted at an automated self-service pay station located at Nurnberg Trailhead. · season January 1 to December 31
Nurnberg Trailhead is one of two primary points of access to the Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Area . This popular trailhead offers a 24-vehicle parking lot, picnic sites, a newly installed automated fee collection station, interpretive signage, and invasive species shoe cleaning stations. This trailhead is not lit.
This trailhead offers access to a Nationally Designated Wilderness Area, please familiarize yourself with the enforced regulations and restrictions for use while recreating in this year. Leave No Trace and reduction of invasive species efforts are encouraged to ensure this area for future generations.
NOTE: Lake Michigan Recreation Area site trailhead offers 60 parking spaces and additional amenities to day use visitors.
Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Area ( pdf )
Restrictions <h4>Allowed</h4><ul><li>Non-motorized/non-mechanized use</li><li>Pets, on-leash (per Michigan law)</li><li>Dispersed camping more than 400 ft from Lake Michigan Shoreline, more than 100 ft from designated trails, and more than 200 ft from Nordhouse Lake</li><li>Wheelchairs and mobility devices for use by a person with a disability that requires its use.</li></ul><h4>Prohibited</h4><ul><li>Mechanized, motorized, and over-snow vehicles/equipment including wagons, carts, bicycles, and coolers</li><li>Bonfires/campfires on the beach</li><li>Pack, saddle, and other livestock</li><li>Possession of glass containers</li><li>Collecting woody material from beaches/shoreline</li><li>Use of polystyrene style coolers</li><li>Parking in violation of posted instructions</li></ul><a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/hmnf/notices/?cid=STELPRDB5181640">General Topic orders</a> apply across the Forests.
Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Area the Forest Service's write-up
<h4>Day Use Fees</h4> Day use fees are required at Nurnberg Trailhead and Lake Michigan Recreation Area. If dispersed camping in the Wilderness Area, a day use pass much be purchased per day. <ul> <li>Day - $5.00 (6AM - 10PM)</li> <li>Week - $15.00</li> </ul> Credit/Debit cards are accepted at an automated self-service pay station located at Nurnberg Trailhead. · season January 1 to December 31
The 3,500 acre Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Area is a beautiful and complex feature along Lake Michigan’s eastern shoreline, in the Huron-Manistee National Forest, located between Ludington and Manistee. It is popular for hiking, primitive and dispersed camping, beach combing, hunting, picnicking, nature study and wildlife viewing, also offering approximately 10-miles of trails accessed from two developed trailheads: Nurnberg Road and Lake Michigan Recreation Area . The designated Wilderness area is a protected natural space, an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.
Our Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness Story has more information on what is being done to protect this special place and how you can help.
Restrictions <h4>Allowed</h4><ul><li>Non-motorized/non-mechanized use</li><li>Pets, on-leash (per Michigan law)</li><li>Dispersed camping more than 400 ft from Lake Michigan Shoreline, more than 100 ft from designated trails, and more than 200 ft from Nordhouse Lake</li><li>Wheelchairs and mobility devices for use by a person with a disability that requires its use.</li></ul><h4>Prohibited</h4><ul><li>Mechanized, motorized, and over-snow vehicles/equipment including wagons, carts, bicycles, and coolers</li><li>Bonfires/campfires on the beach</li><li>Pack, saddle, and other livestock</li><li>Possession of glass containers</li><li>Collecting woody material from beaches/shoreline</li><li>Use of polystyrene style coolers</li><li>Parking in violation of posted instructions</li></ul><a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/hmnf/notices/?cid=STELPRDB5181640">General Topic orders</a> apply across the Forests.