Update May 1, 2026: The Great Waters Tour is on wait-list only for this tour. For a similar experience, we recommend you look at our two new Development Tour options:

Erie Canal Development Tour Our New Erie Canal Development Tour offers rail-trail riding, full service for you, and you'll save some cash! Please click the link above.

For a North Woods experience, please check out our Mesabi Trail Tour Development Adventure!

This new development tour will be July 11-16, starting in Grand Rapids, MN. Fully paved, you'll see the entire length of the Mesabi Trail from Ely to Grand Rapids! Bonus, these development tours are offered at a special low price!

This tour starts and ends in St. Ignace, MI, and runs July 11-17.

Our longest-distance Michigan tour, up to 300 miles! Famous sights in the U.P. including St. Ignace, Soo Locks, Whitefish Point, and Tahquamenon Falls. There's a layover day in the middle with options from zero to 50 miles that day! Come along, it's fun!

Plan your arrival to include check in about 4 p.m., group meeting at 5 p.m., followed by dinner. If you like, consider coming a day early to visit Mackinac Island.

We've got a short ride today, about 35 miles. This should let you prepare for the optional sunset kayak tour pictured above. In 2024 we had 19 guests & staff out on Lake Huron for sunset in the Les Cheneaux Islands. It was spectacular!

Today we ride north to Sault Saint Marie, MI, and the famous Soo Locks! You most likely will see giant freighters carrying coal or wheat or iron ore on the Great Lakes! The photo above is the Queen of the Lakes, Paul R Tregurtha, at 1,013' long she's the largest freighter on the lakes!

Our longest day of the tour, 60 miles from Soo to Paradise! There will be spectacular views of Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes, both this day and the next. Photo above is the cement-carrier Alpena, the oldest freighter in operation on the lakes; she entered service in 1942!

Maybe you're seeing a pattern here: when we see water, we find boats! Today is our layover day in Paradise, and we've revised our tour to include only a ride out to Whitefish Point, where the photo of the MV Cuyahoga was taken. The Shipwreck Museum is there, and the Edmund Fitzgerald lies about 17 miles away on the bottom of Lake Superior. There's also a special stop on the return ride, at Andrus Lake State Forest Campground. This gem was discovered by one of our Tour Leaders Matt Makowski, who claims it's the prettiest inland lake he's seen in ages!

Today is a 60-mile day, with the first sag stop at Tahquamenon Falls, AKA Root Beer Falls. The Tahquamenon River is draining a large swamp, and this waterfall is the second largest waterfall east of the Mississippi, next to Niagara Falls.

After this, we continue on through Newberry for a lunch stop, and then finish the day at famous Chamberlin's Ole Forest Inn, the nicest Bed & Breakfast in the Upper Peninsula!

The Upper Peninsula is a big and beautiful place, so to see our parts of it, we start with a sag ride today, transporting you and your bikes to Engadine. There, we'll start on the Hiawatha Trail heading east into the forest. Lunch stop today is at the Cut River Bridge rest area. We finish the ride in a big way, on US Bike Route 10, riding on the 10-foot shoulder of US-2 as we return to St Ignace. You'll see the best of Lake Michigan including the scene above as we get close to the end of the ride. Yes, the picture is our staff and guests in the clear, clean waters of Lake Michigan about 13 miles from the finish of the tour!