There are more than 600 illegal dump sites in Michigan. The pandemic has only made matters worse.

Published April 16, 2021 at 5:16 PM EDT
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Just south of Traverse City lies Hoosier Valley, an area known by locals for its natural beauty.
 
Blair Town Hall Road rides right along the valley, and the deeper in you get, the more you sink into nature. The road shifts from pavement, to gravel, to a dirt path.
 
 
These are two-tracks: largely unlabeled back roads traversed by four-wheelers, snowmobiles and pick-up trucks — and people who come to Hoosier Valley to dump their trash.
 
 
He recently bought a four-wheeler and has been riding it up and down the two-tracks with his son.
Credit Lexi Krupp/ Interlochen Public Radio

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