Chippewa Run Natural Area
Empire, Leelanau County
Hiking Trails | Snowshoeing Trails
The land takes in four separate ecosystems, and features a much-loved beaver pond and stream where brook trout spawn and blue flag iris and cardinal flower grow in abundance. Chippewa Run is a birding paradise where dozens of species visit or live, including green herons which nest in the pine grove that was planted in 1953.