Deerton - Michigan's Upper Peninsula

<html> <head> <title>Deerton - Michigan's Upper Peninsula</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <META Pragma: No-Cache> <META name="Pragma" No-Cache> <META Cache-control: No-Cache> <META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:21:57 GMT"> <META name="description" content="Profile of Deerton, with candid descriptions of attractions, recommended restaurants, lodgings, campgrounds."> <base href="http://hunts-upguide.com/"> <link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">  <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-16592122-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Over 300 entries, all conveniently located on maps and chosen because we think they are the coolest things to do in the U.P. (No ad tie-ins!) Great choices for restaurants, hikes, shops, adventures, museums, boat trips, waterfalls, vistas, road trips, and much more! To learn more click <A HREF="http://www.hunts-upguide.com/up_travel_map.html">UP MAP GUIDE</a> </td> </tr> </table> <br> <p>  <a target="_top" href="http://www.wunderground.com/US/MI/Deerton.html?bannertypeclick=bigtemptr"> <img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/bigtemptr_both/language/www/US/MI/Deerton.gif" border=0 alt="Click for Deerton, Michigan Forecast" height=94 width=185></a> <br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=20 height=3 alt="---"><br>  <center> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=5 width="100%" height=9> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=790 height=9 alt="---"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="17%">  <table width="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0> <tr> <td width="100%" valign="top">  <table width="100%" cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 border=0 bgcolor="#306799"> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#306799"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-2"> <b> <a class="sidebar" href="/" target="_top">Home</a><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="85" height="5"><br> <a class="sidebar" href="pictured_rocks_munising_au_train.html" target="_top">Back to Pictured Rocks/Munising/Au Train</a> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="85" height="20"><br> </b> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="100%"> <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=10 bgcolor="#FFE09B"> <tr> <td align="left"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=100 height=10 alt="-"><br> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"> <center><font color="#C82F2C"><b>DEERTON<br>POINTS<BR>OF INTEREST</b></font><br> </center> <font color="#263692" size="-2"> <p> <a name="e584"><b>Tyoga Historical Pathway.</b></a> A backroads adventure takes you along a loop to ghost town and the mouth of the Whitefish River ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/deerton_tyoga_historical_pathway.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <a name="e585"><b>Laughing Whitefish Lake Preserve/The Nature Conservancy.</b></a> The 1,700-acre camp of Marquette's grand old man Peter White, never logged, includes forests, wetlands, lots of wildflowers, and a mile-long lake. Pioneering nature photographer George Shiras III took many photos here. ... <a href="http://hunts-upguide.com/deerton_laughing_whitefish_lake_preserve_the_nature_conservancy.html"><font color="#C82F2C">more</font></a> <p> <p>   </font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td>   </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center">  <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td valign=top width="1%" bgcolor="#F5F5D5">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="9" height=500 alt="|"> </td> <td valign=top width="63%">  <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0> <tr> <td valign=top align=center bgcolor="#018650" colspan=2> <center> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="30" height=8 alt="-"><br> <b><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="-1"><a class="whitelink" href="pictured_rocks_munising_au_train.html" target="_top">Region: Pictured Rocks/Munising/Au Train</a></font></b><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="100%" height=3 alt="-"><br> <h1>DEERTON</h1> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width="30" height=8 alt="-"></center></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="63%">  <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td align="left">  <font face="Georgia"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> Driving between Marquette and Au Train, when you see the green sign for "Deerton," you might think there's some mistake. On M-28 there's just a lonely post office. Turn south onto Deerton Road, however, and in a mile you'll come to the railroad grade where, in 1882, the Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette Railroad built a station that became the nucleus of Deerton. <br><br>Here as elsewhere, logging came first, and then the cutover land was sold as small subsistence farms, usually to people who had worked in the lumber camps. Today much of Deerton's rural landscape is abandoned and overgrown. It could seem poetic or depressing, depending on how you feel about weathered houses and ancient junk cars.<br><br>The center of this dispersed rural community is the Deerton School, a tidy 1926 brick building at the corner of Deerton-Onota Road. It's the elementary school of Onota and AuTrain townships, with 40 or so pupils from kindergarten through sixth grade. The schoolyard is graced with gardens of vegetables, flowers, sometimes herbs, the joint school-community project. It changes from year to year, depending on children's ideas — like the tipi for beans. <br><br>Kids at bigger schools would make mincemeat of this charming landscaping. It's fun for Deerton children to come back in fall and see the garden, and have corn on the cob for lunch. Students from Deerton join another elementary school to attend Superior Central High School in Eben, where graduating classes range from 35 to 45. Even so, videoconferenced classes with Marquette High School enable students to take less common classes like German.<br><br>West a short ways on Deerton-Onota Road brings you to the Onota Township Hall. Turn south onto Peter White Road. In about three miles you will come to the north edge of The Nature Conservancy's Laughing Whitefish Lake Preserve. (See below.)<br><br>Peter White Road turns into a two-track a ways after Whitefish Lodge. You can take it all the way to Laughing Whitefish Falls in Sundell — but only if it's not spring mud season and it hasn't rained for a few days—and if your car has fairly high clearance, like a minivan and not a subcompact car. <i>(— May, 2008)</i> <br clear="all"> <hr> <center> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </center> <hr> <p align="right"><a href="pictured_rocks_munising_au_train.html" target="_top">Back to Pictured Rocks/Munising/Au Train</a></p> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="37%" valign="top"> <table width="100%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=8 border=0> <tr> <td height="4" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=1 alt="-"></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="center" bgcolor="#C7302D" width="37%">  <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF"> <b> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> <font size="-1"> DEERTON<br> RESTAURANTS,<br> LODGINGS<br> & CAMPGROUNDS </font> <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=6 alt="-"><br> <font size="-2">These are our choices, not ads.</font><br> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> </b> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top bgcolor="#FFE09B" width="37%">  <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>DEERTON<br>RESTAURANTS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> See also: Au Train, Marquette (Seacoast at Sand River), Munising.<br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#CDCCAD" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>DEERTON<br>LODGINGS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> See also: Au Train, Marquette (Seacoast at Sand River), Munising.<br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> <a name="e1331"><b>WHITEFISH LODGE</b></a><br> (906) 343-6762; members.aol.com/whitefishl <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> This large lodge with 3 housekeeping units is built into the hillside overlooking the Laughing Whitefish River. It enjoys a pleasant woodland setting close to Lake Superior, midway between Pictured Rocks National and Marquette. <br> In the 3-bedroom upstairs unit, the large kitchen/great room and adjacent deck are big enough for family reunions. It can sleep up to 8 with 3 large bedrooms and a sofa sleeper, and 3 baths. This rents for $725/week in summer, $825/week in winter, or $145/day.<br> Downstairs are 2 two-bedroom units with smaller dining-sitting areas. Each opens on to a covered porch. Each bedroom has 2 queen beds. All units have full kitchens, microwaves, coffeemakers, and TV/VCRs. (The TV gets 3 channels.) The front bedroom in each unit has an ample window; the back bedroom has no window. There's a pay phone in the office, which is always open. Each unit has a BBQ grill. Smoking permitted, but not in bedrooms. 2-night minimum year-round.<br> Owners Karen and Steve Pawielski live next door. They have made a picnic area and bonfire pit down by the river. Children enjoy playing in the water and catching tadpoles. Steve, from Munising, met Karen working at a corporate travel agency in Atlanta. "We came up to visit, sat out here on a beautiful summer day, and thought of what we could make of this," says Karen. <br> Their property has 2,000 feet of river frontage. It's surrounded by commercial forest reserve land that's laced with old logging roads that are excellent for mountain biking and for hunting. Sandhill cranes nest near the river across the road. It's next to the 1,700-acre Laughing Whitefish Lake Preserve. <br> Guests include anglers in spring, mountain bikers and naturalists all season, families in summer, bear-hunters and leaf-peepers in fall, followed by deer hunters and snowmobilers. The lodge is near Laughing Whitefish Falls and the ice caves of Eben, big winter attractions. There's enough room for horses, tied to trees, near the Bay de Noc-Au Train equestrian trail. Call early for good availability. Winter books up sooner than summer. On snowmobile trail #417. <br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=5 alt="-"><br> <i>N 8285 Peter White Road south of Deerton. Open year-round. Wheelchair access: call. Extra people: $5/night, $25/week in summer, $50/week in winter. No pets.</i> <p> </font> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#B6DBA4" valign="top"> <font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"> <img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=9 alt="-"><br> <center><font size="-1" color="#C82F2C"><b>DEERTON<br>CAMPGROUNDS</b></font></center> <br> <font size="-2"> See also: Au Train, Marquette (Seacoast at Sand River), Munising.<br><img src="images/1x1.gif" width=15 height=8 alt="-"><br> </font> </font> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan=5 align="center">  <br> <center> <font size="+1" color="#454545" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica">Copyright © 2010 Midwestern Guides</font> </center> </td> </tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>