Pigeon River Country State Forest
Michigan State Forest · Vanderbilt, Michigan
A hundred and five thousand acres of forest and river east of Vanderbilt that Michigan calls the Big Wild, and the home range of the largest free-ranging elk herd east of the Mississippi. The elk were reintroduced here in 1918 after the native herd was shot out, and on an autumn evening the bulls can be heard bugling across the openings from the roadside.
9966 Twin Lakes Road, Vanderbilt, Michigan, 49795, United States
Open year-round. Elk viewing is best at dawn and dusk; bugling season is late September into October.
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