Denton township runs along the south shore of Houghton Lake, and in winter the ice out front fills with shanties and pickup tracks while the drives behind them fill with snow. Prudenville lawn Care handles that side of it: plowing, shoveling walks and steps, and salting the icy patches where a driveway meets the slush along M-55. Come summer the same properties want mowing, trimming and edging — cottage yards and year-round homes both, cut clean down to the sand. The lake makes its own weather, squalls in January and cool mornings in July, and the schedule bends around it. Prudenville, Denton township and the Roscommon County communities nearby are the run.