Author Event: End of the Trail with Jim DuFresne

A Life Well Spent Walking in the Woods and Sleeping on the Ground

Celebrate with us as longtime Michigan author of outdoor and travel guidebooks wraps up his amazing career.  He will share with us highlights of his best wilderness adventures throughout his long career, taking us into the wilds of New Zealand, Alaska, Isle Royale. 

Join us in person or via Zoom by registering HERE.

After several years working as a sports editor in Juneau, Alaska, Jim DuFresne spent the winter of 1981 in New Zealand backpacking and wrote his first book, Tramping in New Zealand, for Lonely Planet. He followed up with Lonely Planet’s Alaska travel guidebook and then returned to Michigan to write Isle Royale National Park: Foot Trails & Water Routes. That guide to the wilderness areas of Isle Royale, known at the park as the “backpacker’s bible,” is in its 40th year of continuous publication in various editions. Among DuFresne’s more than 20 published titles are Backpacking in Michigan and 12 Classic Trout Streams in Michigan: A Handbook for Fly Anglers (University of Michigan Press), The Trails of M-22 and Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park (MichiganTrailMaps.com) and 50 Hikes In Michigan (Backcountry Publications).