Also in the summer
the trail runners' group called the Striders
 hosts a relay in early July that passes through Big M and a North Country Trail run that uses the Big M trails.

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The Lodge is open year round.

The outhouse and parking lot. It is plowed by the Forest Service in the winter.

This is a summer event.
Big M hosts a marathon mountain biking event called the Lumberjack 100.
Contact the Michigan Mountain Biking Association for more info on mountain biking at Big M.

The winter of 2008-9
had 200 inches of snow!

Big M is in the middle of the Manistee National Forest.
Our volunteers work in cooperation
 with the U.S. Forest Service.