Penokee Range - Hurley, Wisconsin
Are you looking for a remote trail to hike? Do you want to see someplace that not everyone in your hiking circle has ever been to? Then you need to visit Penokee Range. It is a remote ridge with an outstanding viewpoint. It will soon be more accessible and so there will be more hikers in the area, but for now, it could be yours!
It will be part of the North Country Trail with this segment following the Uller Ski Trail which traverses a remote ridge while passing fine stands of maple trees, hidden nooks and crannies and prime viewpoint.
The Penoke-Gogebic Iron Range of Wisconsin and Michigan is about 80 miles long and half a mile to a mile wide. The crest o the range rises 100 to 300 feet above the broad valley to the north. In some locations the range is broad and gently rounded in others it is a narrow, steep-sided and serrated terrain. The highest point on the crest of the range is Mt. Whittlesey, 1866 feet high which makes it the third highest point in Wisconsin.
A portion of the Ponokee Range is broken by many gaps. In each of these gaps, except three, streams flow northward across the range. The streams are all of moderate size, often with waterfalls and rapids in narrow gorges where they cross the resistant rocks of the Penokee Range. The gorges which of the Penokee Range are preglacial and unusually numerous. In the 30 miles between the Montreal and Bad rivers there are nine water gaps. This will certainly add to the challenge of hikers.
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