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Allen's Lakeview Road

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Locator map: Allen's Lakeview Road highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeRoad
Coordinates45.7330° N, 85.5615° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Allen's Lakeview Road highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Locator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Road
Intersects
Blue Spruce Lane · Donegal Bay Road · Driftwood Court · High Ridge Court · Lake Shore Road · Rolling Hills Court
Coordinates
45.7330° N, 85.5615° WGoogle MapsDownload KML
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
transportationtoponymy
Within
Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Allen’s Lakeview Road is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap map. The three held ways carrying that name are merged here into one route geometry of about 2.8 km. It meets six other named roads, listed under intersects_road.

Evidence and limits

The name and the alignment are what mappers last entered, and OpenStreetMap is volunteered work rather than a survey: it settles neither the right-of-way nor who maintains the road. Where the name came from is a separate question. Plats, road-commission minutes, and island memory answer that one. Put an older spelling from any of them into alt_names or former_names, with the source that attests it.

Open questions

  • Who is the “Allen” the road is named for, and when was the name adopted? No plat or road-commission record held here identifies a namesake or a naming date.
  • The June 2026 WVBI bulletin reports “chloride work” on Allen’s Lakeview Drive alongside other county-maintained roads, but does not say who authorized or paid for it — does the Charlevoix County Road Commission maintain this road, or is that treatment evidence of a private arrangement?
  • The 1981 trailhead to Hidden Valley was described as an entrance “near Driftwood Court” on Lakeview Road — does that entrance survive along the current alignment, and was the Hidden Valley trail itself ever reported complete?

If you can answer any of these, or correct anything above, the archive wants to hear it — see Corrections.

Documented associations

These source-backed records provide context for the mapped route:

  • Beaver Island road-work and runway-access bulletin, 2026 — On June 3, 2026, WVBI summarized several Charlevoix County Road Commission activities and notices on Beaver Island. The bulletin reported chloride work on Barney’s Lake Road and Allen’s Lakeview Drive, upcoming paving on Freesoil Avenue and Maple Street, intermittent East Side Drive closures near Welke Airport, and a restriction on using Hangar Road…
  • Hidden Valley trail nears completion near Lakeview Road and Driftwood Court, 1981 — In June 1981, the Beaver Beacon reported that a trail to Hidden Valley was near completion. It directed hikers to an entrance on Lakeview Road near Driftwood Court. The report establishes a contemporary trail entrance and approximate road setting, but not the builders, exact route, formal project name, or a later completion record.
  • Buddy's Trail — Buddy’s Trail is not a maintained hiking trail. It functions as a private or lightly-used access road that the joint township planning commission has twice identified, four years apart, as the fallback route when South End Road cannot be used — most concretely during the emergency conditions the commission discussed in January…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 2 file(s). Those files are research leads; the relation layer is added only when the surrounding source text establishes that the record involves this road.

Maps for this place

These Atlas plates provide regional context. They do not establish a precise boundary, current ownership, access right, operating status, or field condition.

  • EnvironmentSoils, wetlands, hydrography, and terrain
  • GeologyGeneralized geology and landforms
  • HydrologyMapped water and wetland context
  • AccessMapped routes, facilities, and protected areas
  • Land surveyPLSS geometry and historic GLO patent-location context

Sources

  1. Current mapped road name "Allen's Lakeview Road"; grouped OSM way ids: 17760711, 17760716, 17761322. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.
    osm · roads

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Allen's Lakeview Road”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/allen-s-lakeview-road/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..

Last revised 2026-08-02. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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