Fred Meijer Heartland Trail – Michigan

This ride was part of our 2011 Fall vacation.
The Fred Meijer Heartland Trail in Michigan is a paved 41 mile rail-to-trail that runs from (near) Greenville to Alma. Since 41 miles is more than we can do out and back in one day we decided to ride 25 miles of it out and back starting at the Lake Road trail-head near Greenville. This was a great trail that ran through farms and forest, a couple stream crossings with small towns along the way.
Other notes: We stayed at the AmericInn in Geenville which was nice and ate at El Rancho which was really good.
It looked as if they were working on completing the trail from the Lake Road trailhead on in to Greenville. A short section would bypass the rail bed and take a road.

Other notes: We stayed the night before and after the ride at the Super 8 hotel in the town of Manistee and drove to and from the trail-head in Frankfort.
We ate dinner at the River Street Station in Manistee.