Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve Access

Road

Intersects: East Side Drive · Gravel Pit Access
Coordinates: 45.7175° N, 85.5111° WGoogle Maps: Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve Access Download KML
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: transportationtoponymy
Within: Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve Access is a named road on Beaver Island’s current OpenStreetMap map. The two held ways carrying that name are merged here into one route geometry of about 177 m. It meets two 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.

Documented associations

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

Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve — Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve is a protected Beaver Island property reached through the mapped Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve Access road. A 1994 Beaver Beacon letter describes the community effort to purchase and preserve the property; a 2007 Charlevoix Courier notice directs visitors from Welke’s airport along East Shore Drive and the signed…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 0 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

OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0).
Current mapped road name 'Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve Access'; grouped OSM way ids: 265430424, 265430428. This is a volunteered map record, not a surveyed right-of-way or proof of historical naming.
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Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Little Sand Bay Nature Preserve Access”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/places/little-sand-bay-nature-preserve-access/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap contributors, roads via Overpass API, retrieved 2026-08-01 (ODbL 1.0)..

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