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Sharing the Trail

Hikers meet bikers on the Potawatomi

by Mary Beth Lewis

posted 7/25/2009

If you take a hike on the Potawatomi Trail in the Pinckney State Recreation Area, you’ll see majestic trees, lovely wildflowers, twittering birds, skittish squirrels—and waves of mountain bikers approaching head-on. Such encounters are common on shared trials like the “Poto,” a seventeen-mile dirt trail beloved by hikers since Boy Scouts built it back in the

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