Michigan: Mount Arvon

Being that I live in Michigan it's amusing that the Michigan highpoint is actually pretty hard to reach from Ann Arbor, it requires quite a drive, from the lower peninsula to the upper peninsula passing the Mackinac Bridge on the way. Colors along the way made the drive very beautiful and nice though:

 Mackinac Bridge from which the blessed land of Canada is not much more than a stone throw away ;-)

Getting to Mt Arvon was very straight forward when following the instructions in my guidebook ("Highpointing of the United States" - Dan Holmes), however I once again relied on my gps entering the exact point of the HP and hoping it would select the best nearest road. That turned out to be some old logging roads and after having bottomed out the Prius in a warning way a couple of times we turned around and retried along another route after having lost about 2h.

After the gps issues though we parked and did the short hike to the highpoint, a clearing in the woods had been made so one could get a very nice view of Lake Superior. Weather was also amazing, there had been snow fallign more than a week earlier, but this weekend the sun was shining and about 70 degrees (20+ C).

 A USGS benchmark could be found on the top:

Stats:
State: Michigan
High point: 
Elevation: 1979 ft (603 m)
Date: 10th October, 2010
Total elevation to date: 40124 ft (12230 m)
Access: Drive-up, short hike
Difficulty rating (of 10): 2
Potential Difficulties: Getting lost