U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Highway
Administration

Associate Administrator
John Baxter
202-366-9494
john.baxter@dot.gov
www.fhwa.dot.gov/flh/

Federal Lands Highway
provides planning,
design, and engineering
services to support the
highways and bridges
that provide access to
and within federally
owned lands.

Federal Lands Divisions

Eastern
Federal Lands

Eastern Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Melisa Ridenour
703-404-6201
melisa.ridenour@fhwa.
dot.gov
www.efl.fhwa.dot.gov

September 2007
See FLH website for sources

Fact Sheet

Michigan FLHP

MI FLHP road miles: 3,900 Funding Authorized FY 98 – 07: $52,230,000 Federal land acreage as percentage of total state area: 9.3%* State population: 10,095,643
National Park Service (6 units) U.S. Forest Service (3) Bureau of Indian Affairs/ Tribal Governments (12) Fish and Wildlife Service (8) This percentage includes Federal lands that are not part of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map

Photo of the Little Beaver Road The Federal Lands Highway Program in Michigan. The “Little Beaver Road” within Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a 3-mile gravel road, which provides access from County Road H-58 to a small, rustic, drive-in campground and a small boat launch for access to the adjacent Little Beaver Lake. In addition, the road provides access to trailheads that lead into the lakeshore’s backcountry areas, including proposed Beaver Basin Wilderness Area. The road pre-dates the establishment of the National Lakeshore, and was never constructed to accepted standards for the current volume and type of public use; in several places, the road is too narrow to allow for the passage of two vehicles. In one section the road was simply cut into the side of the hill, leaving side edges that are raw and unsightly. The volume and type of public use has increased significantly since the establishment of the National Lakeshore.

Eastern Federal Lands is incorporating context-sensitive solutions to rehabilitate Little Beaver Road.The work involves re-establishing the road base, stabilizing narrow and raw side slopes, widening the road to allow for minimum safe passage of two standard sized vehicles (approximately 18 feet), improving the grade and drainage, replacing existing and installing new culverts and associated drainage structures, and covering the new base with gravel.

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