Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore · Michigan

North Manitou Island Main Trails

28 mi of trail, end to end · about 1,600 ft of climbing · 588 ft–966 ft · earth surface

Boat launches

610 ft 612 ft · 6.6 mi high 788 ft

Along the way Lake Manitou

On the parks map

All 23 trails in Sleeping Bear Dunes National LakeshoreFind a trailOn the parks mapPark on nps.gov

About this trail's facts

The lines are the National Park Service's public trails layer, the trailheads and the waterfalls, views, peaks and historic places along them the Service's public points of interest, read 2026-10-16 and simplified for the map; the length is the line's, end to end. The write-ups are the Service's own "things to do" text, unedited. Heights come from USGS 3DEP through Terrain Tiles on AWS (Mapzen/Tilezen), read along each line and rounded; a short trail on steep ground can be off by a few tens of feet. Closures change: check the park's own site before you go.