Groomer Report
CAUTION! WE HAVE A GROOMER BROKE DOWN ON TRAIL 4/76, EAST OF CINDER HILL ROAD. PLEASE USE CAUTION AS YOU NAVIGATE AROUND THE GROOMER.
We currently are down 2 groomers, parts are in route and the crew is working diligently to get them up before the weekend.
Trail are the best they have been in years! Our dedicated volunteers have been working through the frigid temps, maintaining trails and equipment. Get out there and enjoy!!
We welcome you all to our trail system and hope you have a great time while you’re here visiting. Please make sure to stop into our local snowmobile clubs as well as the businesses that help support what we do! Cheers to a great 2026 snowmobile season!
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Be sure to check out our snowmobile clubs and go support them. Antrim County Snowmobile Club has a sled raffle going on to build a groomer barn as well as their clubhouse is open on Saturdays. East Jordan Trailblazers have their Sunday Breakfast all season long as well as a club raffle. They are the core of our organization and we can’t thank them enough! Please consider joining either of these clubs as your membership dollars go to bettering the trail system.
We’d like to thank every one of our volunteers for their dedication to our trail system! Equally as important, thank you to our land owners that graciously let us use their property! Thank you to our board of directors and trail masters for their dedication to improving trails and dealing with the behinds the scene operations that ensure we have trails, these folks spend 12 months a year making sure we have a good 4 month season.
We welcome you all to our trail system and hope you have a great time while you’re here visiting. Please make sure to stop into our local snowmobile clubs as well as the businesses that help support what we do! Cheers to a great 2026 snowmobile season!
Remember there is no centerline, stay on your side of the trail, ride right, ride safe, ride sober, give our volunteer groomers a thumbs up, and please remember groomers don’t back up, get off the trail well ahead of the groomer so they can safely get by you.
ORV riders, please be aware that we have sections of our trail that we are generously afforded the right to use for snowmobile trails. When you see “NO ORV” signs please turn around and find an alternate path! Trails closed to ORV are trails: 4 west of 131, 4/76, 76 and 768 along 131, 766 in the Jordan Valley, 4/76 between 131 and Cinder Hill Road, and Trail 4 along the powerlines (this is PRIVATE property not Lakes of the North property). ORV and snowmobile traffic on private property are jeopardizing trail access all around the state.
THE JORDAN VALLEY TRAILS COUNCIL GROOMS 24 HOURS A DAY. We groom 7 days a week, 24 hours a day as conditions warrant and most groomer runs average between 5 and 8 hours, our trail system now entails roughly 75 one- way miles with the majority of our segments groomed down and back. Remember to grab those 2026 club memberships and trail permits before you hit the trail, they fund us to be able to give you great trails. Ride safe.
Please respect the trails. Being able to cross an individual’s private property is a PRIVILEGE not a Right…
The Jordan Valley Trails Council is a joint effort between the Antrim County Snowmobile Club, East Jordan Trailblazers, and the Charlevoix Snowmobile Club. Please support these clubs and remember all the trail workers and groomer drivers are volunteers! GIVE THEM A BIG THUMBS UP!
Our fleet includes a John Deere 6150R with a 8 1/2′ Dubie Groomer with dual 30″ wings out of East Jordan, a John Deere 6215R with a 9 1/2′ Dubie Groomer with 30″ dual wings out of Elmira, and a Pisten Bully 400 with a 9 1/2′ Dubie Groomer with dual 30″ wings centered in Mancelona. At full load out 2 of our 3 groomers are capable of grooming 14 1/2′ of snow in one pass! We also have a John Deere 5090 that the Jordan Valley Trails Council owns with a front bucket and Dubie Brush Cutter front attachment for limb cutting as well as 2 mower attachments for storm and seasonal clean up as well as a rear Dubie blade. In 2024 we were fortunate to be able to purchase a 1978 Champion motor grader to contour dirt before snowmobile season
