 Hunters , campers , hikers , fishermen and some landowners opposed highway construction near the Huron Mountains . Rydholm said , " ... there seemed to be no groundswell of sentiment in favor of it , but it looked as the though the die was cast and nothing could be done to stop it " . The Huron Mountain Club members opposed the highway because it would open vast reaches of the back country and might harm the wilderness . Highway construction would also open the possibility of a resort hotel . William C. Weber , a real estate developer from Detroit , owned property along Mountain Lake , in northern Marquette County . A Michigan attorney general 's opinion provided a way for blocking the road if two @-@ thirds of the property over which the road would pass was owned by people opposed to the project . The proposed highway was to cross two 40 @-@ acre ( 16 ha ) parcels of Huron Mountain Club property , but that was not enough to halt construction . 
