No site in MDNR's access file falls on Mulligan Creek, so the way in is public ground and road crossings rather than a marked landing. 7 blocks of public land touch the river, which is where you can stand without asking — 51,380 acres between them, counting each unit whole rather than the part beside the water. The nearest town we map is Marquette, 23.9 miles from the river's midpoint in a straight line, with the water west of the town.
Straight-line distance from the river's midpoint, and the direction you would travel from
the town to reach it. The roads are not mapped here, so there is no drive time — a travel
time nobody measured is the kind of number that gets somebody lost.
Public land on the water
Escanaba River State Forest - Gwinn Unit (North) — Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 14,071 acres in all
Escanaba River State Forest - Gwinn Unit — Michigan Department of Natural Resources, 14,058 acres in all
Mccormick Wilderness — United States Forest Service, 9,896 acres in all
Ottawa National Forest - Kenton Ranger District — United States Forest Service, 9,896 acres in all
Michigamme Highlands — The Nature Conservancy, 2,021 acres in all
Gwinn Management Unit — Michigan DNR, 1,399 acres in all
Mulligan Creek — Michigan DNR, 39 acres in all
Ownership from PAD-US as the state publishes it. Where a block has its own page, the name
links to it.