Simerson Outdoors

About Simerson Outdoors

Buckley sits up on the ridge country between Traverse City and Cadillac, where M-37 runs straight through hardwood and open farm ground and the snow comes off the big lake in bands you can watch approach. Simerson Outdoors plows and blows through those Wexford County winters — driveways and lots opened, walks and steps cleared, sand and salt down where a drive meets the road and shines. Lake-effect here rarely announces itself with one enormous storm; it just keeps adding, day after day, so the route is about consistency more than heroics. Banks go back early, turnarounds stay wide, and the long drives toward the forest edge get cleared far enough for a truck to swing around. First light on a finished driveway with snow still drifting down is the picture that gets a person out of bed.