Maple City, Mich.- The Leelanau Conservancy’s new three-mile mountain bike trail at Palmer Woods Forest Reserve has officially opened. Close to 150 people attended an opening ride & party on […]
Category Archives: Palmer Woods Forest Reserve
Stewardship Evolved: Bringing Mountain Biking to Leelanau’s Palmer Woods Forest Reserve [Boardman Review Video]
We were thrilled to collaborate with The Boardman Review to showcase our new mountain bike trail at Palmer Woods. The Traverse City-based print & digital journal focuses on the creative culture […]
Message From Executive Director Tom Nelson
Published in our 2017 Annual Report “We will not fight to save what we do not love.” —Scientist and Author Stephen Jay Gould When people ask me about the successes […]
Contractor Hired to Build Mountain Bike Trails at Palmer Woods
We’re excited to announce that we’ve hired Flowtrack Mountain Bike Trails, LLC, a professional trail-building company from the Upper Peninsula, to lead the design and construction of the new mountain […]
Palmer Woods Trail System Expansion Project Set to Begin in Late Summer of 2018
The Leelanau Conservancy is pleased to announce that work to expand Palmer Woods Forest Reserve’s trail system is slated to begin at the end of this summer. A professional trail-building […]
Palmer Woods Updates: Trails and More!
Some Trails Closed for Tree Harvest of Dead and Dying Beech and Ash Posted: 8/16/2017 You may recall an article in our summer newsletter about a planned harvest of […]
Kids in the Woods, Thanks to “Wheels to Woods” Program
Leelanau Montessori Students Learn, Play, Explore at Palmer Woods A neat program called Wheels to Woods pays for bus transportation so that teachers can get their students out into a […]
Palmer Woods: A Family’s Legacy
Dr. Dan Palmer grew up in Frankfort, and enjoyed camping out on the dunes north of town in a place called Devil’s Armchair and on the Sleeping Bear dunes. […]
