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Trout fishing near Newberry, Michigan

Last updated 2026-09-24 · water classified by MDNR

MDNR types 156 named streams as cold water within 40 miles of Newberry, Michigan — 498.6 miles of it inside that circle. The most of it is Sucker River, 23.8 miles out, with 18.7 classified miles that MDNR types Cold stream. The closest is Murphy Creek at 7.9 miles. A thermal typing is MDNR's statement about the water, not a record of a fish in it and not permission to stand on the bank — check access and the current regulations before you go.

The trout water within 40 miles of Newberry

Ranked by how much classified water lies inside the circle, and by nothing else. Distance is a straight line to the nearest point of the stream rather than to its middle, because the question is how far you drive before you can park — this app carries no road network and will not print a drive time it cannot compute. A stream that runs out of the circle is counted for the part that is inside it, never for its whole length.

Stream Miles out Classified miles VSEC river type Size Thermal class
Sucker River 23.8 18.7 Cold stream stream 100% cold
Driggs River 28.9 16.4 Cold transitional stream stream 84% cold-transitional, 16% cold
Fox River 21.2 15 Cold small river small river 100% cold
South Branch Carp River 25.1 14.5 Cold stream stream 100% cold
Two Hearted River 16.7 13.6 Cold small river small river 100% cold
East Branch Fox River 14.6 12 Cold small river stream 100% cold
Upper Millecoquins River 8.2 9.4 Cold transitional stream stream 74% cold-transitional, 26% cold
Murphy Creek 7.9 8.6 Cold stream stream 100% cold

156 named streams clear the circle in all and the 8 holding the most classified water are named. The rest carry less water than something a reader would pass on the way to it.

A stream marked part of the stream carries classified water outside the circle too, and the mileage here is only what is inside it. The thermal class is MDNR VSEC modelled thermal class, and it describes the reaches inside the circle rather than the whole stream.

What MDNR is saying, and what it is not

Every row above is on the list because Michigan Department of Natural Resources publishes a modelled thermal class for every mapped reach (VSEC). That is MDNR's model of what the water does in summer — cold, which is where Michigan's trout are. It is a thermal typing rather than a designation; the regulation types that govern a Michigan trout stream are a separate table, on the state regulations page. It is not a record of a fish caught there, it is not a promise about any particular day, and it is not permission to walk to the bank — the land beside a classified stream can be private, and in most of these five states most of it is.

Which trout MDNR records near Newberry

MDNR's own survey stations and stocking sites within 40 miles, counted. A survey is a fish somebody caught and counted; a stocking is a fish somebody put there. The count is of records, not of fish.

Species SurveysStockingsLatest
brook trout 4 10 2022
brown trout 1 0 2022
rainbow trout 1 0 2019
lake trout 0 1 1987

Getting to the water

This site has built access pages in Michigan and none of them stands within 40 miles of Newberry, so this page names none. Check MDNR for access, and read the boundary of any land you cross — a stream being classified says nothing about who owns the bank.

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