West Side Road

Road

Intersects

Camp #3 Trail · Fox Lake Road · Greene's Bay Road · Greene's Lake Road · Mrs Redding Trail · North French Bay Road · Paid een Og's Road · West Side Drive · Young James Trail

Coordinates

45.6552° N, 85.5794° WGoogle Maps: West Side RoadDownload KML

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

transportationtoponymy

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Media

Beaver Island History Map, 1978 revision · General highway map of Charlevoix County, 1965

Summary

West Side 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 9.8 km. It meets nine 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:

• Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area — Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area is a Michigan Department of Natural Resources public-land designation covering substantial state-managed land in the Beaver Island archipelago, dating from the 1970s. Local reporting places 9,195.5 acres of the Beaver Island portion within the 2024…
• West Side Road 40-acre house listing — 1986 and 1987 Beaver Beacon advertisements described a year-round two-story house with a basement, garage, and 40 wooded acres about three miles south of the Township Airport on county-maintained West Side Road. The house was said to have been completed in 1985; the later ad reports a reduced asking price and identifies Randy and Suzanne Moore as…
• Antrim Iron Works and Carpenter's Mill site — The 1978 History Map identifies an Antrim Iron Works lumber-and-charcoal site on Beaver Island’s lower west side and says it later became Carpenter’s Mill. Helen Collar’s lumbering notes independently associate the Antrim Iron Company with large-scale cutting for chemical and charcoal wood and shipment to…

Research status

The local newspaper and website corpus contains exact-name mentions in 75 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.

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes