Snow Shoeing

Snowshoeing can pretty much be done everywhere depending on experience and endurance. Snowshoeing on a fresh trail in the back country can be quite exhausting. However, we have tours available for all ability levels.

No matter how long or how short you go, it will be a magical experience. Through the woods, in the hills, across frozen swamps, rivers, and lakes; making your own pretty tracks in untouched snow is a glorious feeling. Snowshoeing can be done with children and even in the coldest weather if dressed appropriately.

NEW!!!!!
Nighttime snowshoe tour through snow-laden forest lit by moonlight and headlamp. The stillness of the night paired with the majesty of Lake Superior is sure to be breathtaking! This tour is geared toward people with no snowshoeing experience and care will be taken to lengthen or shorten trails according to ability level.
It is offered Thursday through Sunday nights according to onset of darkness.

Our guides are very experienced and many have their own favorite trails

Join me for a nighttime snowshoe tour through snow-laden forest lit by moonlight and headlamp. The stillness of the night paired with the majesty of Lake Superior is sure to be breathtaking! Keep your ears open for nightlife and the noises of the Lake as we approach her banks through dense forest. Once we have emerged from the forest keep your eyes open as we search the Night Sky for constellations, shooting stars, and more!
This tour is offered depending on current weather conditions and visibility. While the time is set for a certain time of day to start the experience, it may be necessary to change the time due to the weather. This tour is geared toward people with no snowshoeing experience and care will be taken to lengthen or shorten trails according to ability level. Experience time includes travel time.

These wooden snowshoes are made locally in the only shop left in the US that makes them by hand. However, Marquette Recreational Tours uses the more modern and lightweight aluminum snowshoes with easy in-and-out bindings in addition to ice grips. Every customer is fitted individually and trails are picked according to ability levels.

Make your own trails where no one has been before (well - at least not on this day !). You will feel like and explorer at the North Pole!

Going into the deep woods. Waterways under the the snow and ice change constantly and one has to be careful and not break through into an active waterway.

The ultimate snowshoe experience - deep woods, snow, ice, and the power of water thundering through the stillness of winter.

Only under the guidance of an experienced guide you can have this once in a lifetime adventure: walking the Lake Superior Ice Dunes! Equipped with snow shoes with ice grips we climb between the layers of ice dunes formed by winter storms. Stepping over deep crevices, inspecting ice volcanoes, stepping to the edge of the ice sheet.