40 Acres For Sale in Michigan

Forty acres in Michigan gives you one of the most common rural property sizes in the state, based on the traditional quarter-quarter section from the original public land survey. At 40 acres, you have enough ground to run a legitimate timber management program with periodic harvest income, manage a comprehensive whitetail hunting setup with multiple stand sites and a full food plot system, and potentially generate modest income from hunting leases if you do not hunt the property yourself. If your land is in a northern Michigan county like Roscommon, Crawford, or Oscoda, 40 private acres can give you more control over hunting pressure and access than you typically have on public land. Bear hunting permits in the northern Lower Peninsula and Upper Peninsula are allocated through a preference-point lottery system, but if you successfully draw a tag, a 40 acre property with beech mast or berry cover can give you another recreational use for the land. Prices at 40 acres vary considerably across Michigan. Agricultural 40 acre parcels with tillable ground in mid-Michigan run at the higher end. Northern Lower Peninsula timber and recreational 40 acre tracts list at moderate prices. Upper Peninsula hardwood timber parcels range from affordable to moderate prices depending on timber species, stand quality, and road access.