Visitor Maps and Guides

Avenza Maps® is a mobile map app that allows you to download maps for offline use on iOS or Android smartphone or tablet, use your device’s built-in GPS to track your location on any map, plot locations and photos, measure distance and area, and more.

Trail and Wilderness Recreation Maps

Hiawatha Recreation Map Finder

Blueberry production usually increases dramatically within a couple years following prescribed fire, so blueberry picking enthusiasts may wish to visit these areas when searching for new picking spots.

• East Zone: north
• West Zone: east-central
• West Zone: southwest

Link to access Forest Service Digital Maps

Forest Service Digital Maps are a collection of map series covering all lands administered by the USDA Forest Service, include national, regional, administrative, forest, ranger district, and topographic maps. Detailed maps of an entire forest are created at a variety of scales called the Forest Series. Detailed maps of a specific ranger district are created at a variety of scales called the Ranger District Series. Traditional updated topographic maps known as FSTopo and historical topographic maps known as FSTopo Legacy are created system wide.

Hardcopies of the Forest Visitor Maps can be purchased for $14 using the Forest Service Map Finder application or by searching the USGS Map Store.  Available maps include the forest-wide map updated in 2018 and the Grand Island National Recreation Area map updated in 2024. 

Find a Motor Vehicle Use Map

Where Can I Ride?

You can determine where to ride a given type of motorized vehicle by consulting the Hiawatha’s Motor Vehicle Use Maps (MVUMs). There are four maps that together document the designated motorized use transportation system (by vehicle type and season) on the Hiawatha’s four Ranger Districts.

Rules of the Road/Trail on the Hiawatha

1. The Motorized Vehicle Use Maps guide which roads you may use. The maps delineate use by motorized vehicle type, including seasonal restrictions. For instance, some motorized routes are open to all motorized vehicle and some are open only to automobiles.
2. Motor vehicle use off of designated routes is prohibited on National Forest Lands in the Hiawatha National Forest. For example, you may not ride cross country to retrieve your deer. (This has been policy since 1986.)
3. Travel on County roads is guided by County ordinance.
4. Non-Highway Legal Vehicles (OHVs, ORVs, ATVs) must travel single file on the edge of the travel way but NOT in the ditch.
5. Maximum speed for Non-Highway Legal Vehicles is 25 miles per hour.

Download PDFs of the MVUMs

 East Zone

• Sault Ste. Marie
• St. Ignace

West Zone

• Munising
• Rapid River/Manistique

Request a Print Copy of the MVUMs

You can view these maps linked above online, but because they are very large, you may want to obtain a printed copy for field use.  Copies are available at our Ranger District offices.

Download Mobile MVUMs

See the above Mobile Visitor Maps section for links to download the maps for free in the Avenza Maps® app. 

Other Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) Maps

• East Zone ORV maps are available through the Chippewa County Sportsman’s Off-Road Vehicle Association. 

West Zone ORV Map - This map shows the Marquette – Manistique Trail/Route and a selection of Forest and County Roads open to ORV use on the West Zone of the Hiawatha.  This map is also available for free in the Avenza Maps® app using the link in the above Mobile Visitor Maps section.  

The USDA Forest Service Geodata Clearinghouse is an online collection of digital data related to forest resources.  Additional information and links for downloading Forest Service geospatial data are available on the Forest Service Enterprise Data page.