Who is Glen Arbor’s phantom snow plower?

From staff reports

Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes board chairman Kerry Kelly reports that a phantom snow plower is plowing 100 yards of a seasonal road that forms the section of the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail between M-109 and DH Day Campground. That inhibits the ability of cross-country skiers to glide, uninterrupted, between Glen Arbor and the Dune Climb.

Kelly has talked with the Leelanau County road crew twice and was assured that they are not plowing this road. Friends of Sleeping Bear has also talked to construction crews working in the area and was told that they have not been plowing this road. “This is very disappointing to the people who are working hard to make this trail a first-class ski trail, and to those who want to ski,” says Kelly. “This 100 yards is right in the middle of the length of trail between Glen Arbor and the Dune Climb. Skiers have to take off their skis and walk or ski in the ditches. We can not groom this section when it is plowed like this.”

Kelly reports that the Heritage Trail is otherwise in excellent condition, and was groomed as recently as Sunday, December 29, for both skate-skiing and classic cross-country skiing.

Anyone with knowledge of who is plowing the trail is encouraged to contact Kerry Kelly at (231) 631-4244 or by emailing kerryjkelly7@gmail.com.