Digital Time Travelers 2002

Virtual Trip Along 6 Pause Portage

12. Murray Landing Road to terrace on river

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The red arrow illustrates the portion of the 2002 6-Pause Portage covered on this page.
Departing Murray Landing Road and heading south or left toward the Manitowish River.
Old logging road that travels along the portage route about half way to the river terrace.
Logging Road continues into a more open area file with hawthorns. These exotic bushes suggest that this area was the site of earlier homes, agriculture, or disrupting of native soils. Be careful not to get scratched up!
View from the elevated terrace of land overlooking the Manitowish River basin. Just down the hill is a channel covered in pickerel weed that can be navigated in high water to the main river channel. In low water a portage over the meadow sedges must be made.
Another view of the Manitowish River basin and the distant river channel.

 

1.Creek and Mercer Lake 2. Start Portage Mercer Lake to Cemetery 3.Cemetery to Flerick Road 4. Flerick Rd. to Snowmobile Trail 5. Snowmobile to Old Pioneer Rd 6. Old Pioneer Rd to Gene Talyor's residence 7.Gene Taylor's residence to Midwest timber and slashings
8. Slashings to dense swamp 9. Open swamp to pine high ground 10. Pine high ground to willows 11. Willows to Murray Landing Road 12. Murray Landing Road to terrace on River 13. Looking from the Manitowish River to the terrace