Beaglesonia is Not a Secret

Old Dog seems to have located the Freehold of Beaglesonia but, just to be sure:  If you travel east of Butler Road on LaLonde Road, it dead ends in a junk yard.  Just before that, there is a driveway on the right that leads to the house.  The east and west boundaries of the property may be discerned by the remains of the straight ditches that were once dug along them by a former owner.  The south boundary may be determined by drawing an imaginary line straight east from the end of Van Yea Road.

Much of the land to the east of Beaglesonia is state forest, and that which is private is mostly vacant, although there are some houses and hunting camps scattered here and there.  To the south there are some pastures and hay fields, interspersed with woods and swamps.  Butler Road is the eastern boundary of the City of Cheboygan, although that part of town remains underdeveloped because much of it is pretty swampy.  There are some houses to the north, but they are far enough apart that the deer can pass through the neighborhood undetected.  The deer that cross my property seem to spend a lot of their time within the city limits, but Old Dog is correct in thinking they can go pretty much anywhere they want to.  I don't think that many of them get hit by cars, so they must have learned how to cross the roads safely.  The Cheboygan River to the west is the practical limit of their range.  Deer could easily swim across it if they wanted to, but they don't seem to want to very often.  Other than that, there is  the Straits of Mackinac and Lake Huron, but deer and other wildlife have been seen occasionally on the ice in the winter.  It is believed that the few timber wolves that we have in the region got here from the UP that way.