Location : The Drettmann Ranch is located in one of the most breathtaking natural settings of NW Michigan just outside the town of Bellaire. Hunters can choose to drive directly to the ranch or fly commercially into Cherry Capital Airport, Traverse City, MI.  A Drettmann ranch representative will meet you and transport you and your gear back to the ranch. After a short 45-minute drive your travels will end at the front gates of Drettmann Ranch.  Also private and corporate clients may choose to fly directly into Bellaire Airport with a runway large enough to accommodate jets up to 727's.

Environment : In French, the name Bellaire means "Clean Air" and the Drettmann Ranch exemplifies the true meaning of the word. With it clean air, pristine waters, mineral rich soils and the intricate bio-diversity of flora and fauna, the ranch is the perfect environment for producing monster whitetails.

Nearly 700 acres in size, the variety of habitat within the perimeters of the ranch makes it seem much larger than it is. Nearly half of the ranch consists of rolling hardwood ridges containing maple, ash and beech trees. The properties landscape then drops in elevation to thick cedar swamps where numerous creeks and streams flow into the dense thickets of tag elders, windfalls and beaver dams. Throughout the ranch, nutritional food plots are strategically placed to supplement the additional foods needed to maintain a healthy deer herd. The diversity of the ranch not only supplies food, cover and seclusion for the whitetail, it also presents an ultimate wilderness challenge of a lifetime.