Ahnapee State Trail

An illustrated tribute to the Ahnapee State Trail — the old rail corridor that runs north out of Algoma along the Ahnapee River toward Sturgeon Bay, now a crushed-limestone path for walkers, cyclists, and snowmobilers. The trail recedes into pine woods past a weathered fence gate, framed by the things you actually meet along it: a chickadee, a chipmunk, a box turtle sunning on a stone, coneflower and thistle and black-eyed susan crowding the margins. A banner names what the trail is for — nature, history, community.

This is the studio’s nature-and-place voice: dense engraving-style linework in the tradition of an old field guide or almanac, built to honor a specific stretch of ground rather than a generic landscape. A piece like this can live anywhere a place wants to tell its story — a trailhead sign, a brochure cover, a poster, a print in the visitor center. It’s the kind of interpretive illustration we love most: the overlooked beauty of a local place, rendered with the care usually reserved for somewhere far away.