A three mile foot trail will lead you to White Deer Lake. Less traveled trails include the North Country National Scenic Trail, Baraga Lake Trail, and Yellow Dog Falls trail. Camping is allowed anywhere within the wilderness. Visitors are encouraged to learn and practice Leave No Trace camping techniques. Due to McCormick's high elevations, snow lasts well into spring and accumulates to some of the deeper depths in the Upper Peninsula.
Many opportunities await for winter campers, snowshoers and skiers.
The only plowed access point is off county road 607, the White Deer Lake Trailhead. McCormick History McCormick Wilderness was once used as a vacation retreat by three generations of McCormicks, descendants of Cyrus H. Mccormick, inventor of the reaping machine. The last owner, Gordon McCormick, donated the land to the Forest Service upon his death in 1967. Because of its unique, unspoiled setting, it became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System through the 1987 Michigan Wilderness Act.