In Leland Township roughly 56% of housing units are not occupied year-round, and the median home is valued at $675,900. Most of the drives that need clearing in January belong to owners who are downstate or out of state and will not see them until spring.
Traverse City Snow Plowing is a referral service. Think of it as the switchboard: it puts a Leland owner in touch with an independent, insured plow operator, and that operator — never this site — does the clearing and sends the proof.
The Census counts about 1,732 housing units in Leland Township and 760 households. The gap between those numbers is the second-home market: cottages on Lake Michigan, houses on Lake Leelanau and along the narrows, and places in and around Fishtown. Leelanau County’s July population peaks near 60,000. Across the region, the average seasonal home is used about 86 days a year and roughly 8% are occupied in winter.
For an owner who is not here, the plow contract is really a reporting contract. The contractor you are matched with should be sending:
No plow operator in this market advertises that level of reporting today; it has to be written into the contract. What a vacant-property contract should include →
The Leelanau County Road Commission maintains a seasonal road system: 63 miles of county road that are closed to public travel from November through April and get no winter maintenance. Its 2018 policy says winter maintenance on those roads will be considered only where the entire cost of bringing them up to the commission’s standards is paid by others. Neither county publishes a list or map of which roads are seasonal — call the road commission and ask about yours.
If the road to the house is seasonal or private, the contract is a different product from a driveway: a longer stretch, a turnaround at the end, and often neighbors along the lane who could share the cost. It is also the difference between an owner who can drive up to check on the house in February and one who cannot. How seasonal and private road contracts work.
Leland has no station of its own. The nearest long record is Northport 2 W, on the shore near the tip of the peninsula, at 93.1 inches a year — less than the airport in town. But the township reaches inland as well, and the Maple City station in the county’s interior averages 142.1. A house up from the water can see well more than the shoreline figure. The Leelanau road commission’s own county-wide figure is 120 to 140 inches. Where the gradient runs.
Leland Township adopted a rental registration ordinance in 2020; its terms are not summarized on this page. No township snow ordinance surfaced in this site’s research. The road commission asks that mailboxes sit at least 6 feet off the blacktop or 1 foot behind the shoulder, and helps only with direct plow strikes. MCL 257.677a forbids putting driveway snow on the road or banking it so a driver cannot see pulling out, with a civil fine up to $100 that can reach the owner who hired the plow. All rules in one place.
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Tell us the road, whether it is seasonal or private, and how you want to hear that the drive was done.
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