Vilas soils have loamy sand textures in the Bs horizon. Rubicon soils are on outwash and lake plains, stream terraces, and moraines and to a lesser extent on old beach ridges and sand dunes along the Great Lakes. Slopes range from 0 to 70 percent. Kalkaska , Grayling , and Montcalm soils are common well drained to excessively drained associates. Surface runoff is slow or very slow.
Permeability is rapid.
The greater proportion of this soil is forested, including tree plantations. Some areas are idle cropland or in pasture. Only a very small proportion is used for small grains and hay crops. The native vegetation and present natural vegetation is dominantly red pine and quaking aspen with some eastern white pine and jack pine. Ground cover consists of blueberries, wintergreen, sweet fern, and bracken fern.