Adventure Outdoors Magazine Fall 2016 | Page 100

HOUGHTON LAKE, MI Tip ups and sleds, skis and skates, snowshoes and trails, all are a part of your wintertime outdoor adventure in Roscommon County, home to Michigan’s Other Great Lakes. Houghton Lake, Michigan’s largest inland lake, becomes a 20,000 acre ice playground, typically from December through the end of February. Shanty towns and tip ups dot the shallow, frozen landscape as ice fishing for walleye, pike and perch are a daily occurrence. To celebrate this winter adventure Mark Martin hosts an ice fishing school and the last two weekends of January, one of Michigan’s longest running winter festivals, Tip Up Town, takes place on the lake. mo