The landscape awakens in spring, with the greening of the forest and wildflowers blossoming along rushing streams and sunny meadows. Nodding trillium, spring beauties, and violets lead the way. Spring is the best time to explore more than 150 waterfalls, with streams flowing wild in their rush toward our inland seas. You can find them in state and national parks, public forests, along lakeshores, beside highways, and down moss-covered trails. Spring is a good time for photographers, with soft light on new growth and abundant driftwood decorating the beaches on our shores.
Rock hounds can search among the trove of newly deposited and uncovered rocks and gemstones.
In the forests are hundreds of plant species, including wildflowers that decorate prairie meadows and forest floors. You won't need to look far to include some of more than 30 varieties of wild orchids. Wild morel mushrooms appear with spring rains, introducing the first of the Upper Peninsula's numerous collectable species. Spring also ushers in the opening of fishing season, where pursuit of the elusive brook trout is a passion. We invite you to our migratory pathways for numerous bird species that either nest for the season or pass through in the spring and fall.