If you’re looking to make the most of your outdoor time during the winter, you can’t go wrong by trekking the Pere Marquette Rail Trail, a 30-mile, paved scenic trail between Midland and Clare.
If you love tubing to keep cool in the summer months, imagine doing the same thing, bundled up in your coats, boots, gloves, on these incredible tube runs. Once you’re done hitting the slopes, head to the snack bar and warm up with hot chocolate and smores.
If you’re the outdoorsy type when winter comes, there’s no better way to spend the day than by ice fishing. Tucked inside a shanty with a heater going, you and your friends or your family can huddle around your hole in the ice and try your hand at catching everything from walleye to bass to perch to bluegill to pike.
Some, like Revere Neighborhood Park, offer smaller hills for younger children, and others, like Stratford Woods Park, have bigger hills for more advanced sledders.
In Isabella County alone, around Mount Pleasant, you can hit up any number of local parks for sledding, cross country skiing, hiking, or downhill skiing. If you feel daring, you can explore Bundy Hill Preserve, the tallest point in Isabella County.