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Growing older is not for the faint of heart. If you’ve always loved to hike, it can be discouraging, post age 65, to find that reduced padding due to wear and tear on your joints, back and feet can cause stiffness and pain during long-distance hikes. Reduced muscle strength and flexibility make hiking on uneven terrain more difficult.

For many good reasons—the area’s beauty and its good life, for starters—Glen Arbor has become a haven for us retirees. By 2015, the influx of seniors pushed the average age of a resident to around 63. Now, census estimates reveal Glen Arbor’s residents as the oldest in Leelanau, one of the oldest counties in the state.