- Most Popular!
- December - February
- 3.5 - 4 hours
Get to know the dogs, harness them up, and drive your own team or ride with us. This hands-on trip includes a hot, hearty lunch served on the trail.
Offered Fri, Sat, Sun, & Mon.
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Drive your own team or ride with a guide!
Experience a True Mushing Adventure in Bayfield!
Drive your own team or ride along with us on this hands-on mushing adventure. Harness, hook-up, feed, and love the dogs!
Nestled in the hills overlooking Lake Superior in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, is Wolfsong Adventures in Mushing. “The best dog sledding trails in the Lower 48″ extend right from the kennel out into the remote hilly terrain of the Bayfield Peninsula, home of the Apostle Islands Dogsled Race. With an average of 150 inches of snow, we have good conditions from Christmas through late March every year.
The trip length is based on the size of the group. Set up and break down time all takes longer with more participants. Your time actually dog sledding on the trail will remain the same no matter the number of participants. With a small group, we may be able to run a bit longer, but even with all of the hard training we do in the fall with the dogs, we can only ask them to run so long on each trip.
Each sled can either hold one adult, one adult and one child, or two children.
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A = Adults | R = Adult Riders | C = Children Riders
Children are ages 12 and under. Anyone 13 and older is considered an Adult. All children are considered “Riders.” If your group does not fit into any of these options please call us at 7152094551.
1A 0R 0C
1A 0R 1C
1A 0R 2C
1A 0R 3C
1A 0R 4C
1A 2R 0C
1A 1R 1C
1A 1R 2C
2A 0R 0C
2A 0R 1C
2A 0R 2C
2A 1R 0C
3A 0R 0C -
A = Adults | R = Adult Riders | C = Children Riders
Children are ages 12 and under. Anyone 13 and older is considered an Adult. All children are considered “Riders.” If your group does not fit into any of these options please call us at 7152094551.
3A 0R 1C
3A 0R 2C
3A 0R 3C
3A 0R 4C
3A 1R 0C
3A 1R 1C
3A 1R 2C
3A 2R 0C
4A 0R 0C
4A 0R 1C
4A 0R 2C
4A 0R 3C
4A 0R 4C
4A 1R 0C
4A 1R 1C
4A 1R 2C
4A 2R 0C
5A 0R 0C
5A 0R 1C
5A 0R 2C
5A 1R 0C
6A 0R 0C -
- We can take up to 6 sleds.
- Every trip — regardless of the size — will have two of our guides leading the trip. The lead guide is the front sled and can carry a passenger. The other guide is the very last sled and can also carry a passenger. The other 4 sleds are driven by guests alone. Passengers ride with guides only. Guides take bigger teams to pull this weight.
- If everyone in the group is willing to drive, then everyone takes turns riding and driving if your group has maxed out the sleds. If you are smaller than the maximum group size, then no one may need to ride. No matter the size, we can only take 2 adult riders (or 4 children) during any trip. If your group has more guests that require riding, then your group will need to split up and go on multiple trips.
- If your group size is bigger than 6 adults, please call us and we can discuss options to get everyone out.
Where We Go:
Often we travel from our kennel to other trailheads as we run in the Bayfield County Forest, and some years there is too much logging activity that block the trails that we can run from our kennel. The dogs also like variety so we often move where we run each trip. Regardless of where we are running the dogs we will meet at our kennel. Traveling to a different trailhead does not cut into total trip time as we have a very efficient “trucking” system.
Every trip includes meeting and loving up with the dogs, feeding/watering the dogs, learning how to drive a dogsled, harnessing and hooking up the dogs. Then we take off on the trail and mush for the remainder of the time. Often small groups take less time to prepare and we may get back earlier, but time mushing on the trail is always the same length.
Once returning to the trailhead, we then unhook and unharness the dogs and give them a snack and say goodbye.
Cancellation Policy:
Due to the seasonal nature of our business, cancellations affect us greatly. Full payment is due upon reservation.
The only time we might cancel a trip due to cold weather is if the National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill Warning for the duration of your trip.
If a cancellation is made more than 14 days before the arrival date, the deposit can be applied to a rescheduled date or refunded minus a $100 cancellation fee. Reservations canceled within 14 days of the trip are subject to no refund.