Arenac County · Michigan mill directory
Maple Ridge Hardwoods Inc.
Sawmill
Maple Ridge Hardwoods Inc. is listed as a sawmill at 2270 N. Dobler Rd., Sterling, MI 48659, in Arenac County. If you came looking for a sawmill near me, this is the Sterling end of that question: the address is published, your own is not, so the haul is yours to measure. The listing is published by Michigan Forest Products Mill Data (Michigan Department of Natural Resources); AXE USA republishes it as it stands and adds nothing to it.
Where it is
2270 N. Dobler Rd.Sterling, MI 48659
- Town
- Sterling
- County
- Arenac County, Michigan
- ZIP
- 48659
- Published coordinates
- 44.15209, -83.98752
How to reach it
What this facility is
Sawmill
A sawmill breaks logs down into boards. Sawlogs are graded on diameter, straightness and defect before they reach the headrig, so this is the outlet that pays for stem quality rather than tonnage - and the slabs, edgings and sawdust it makes are what feed the chip, shavings and mulch trade around it.
What it takes
Hardwood is the only material the source records this facility as accepting.
What comes off it
The source names 2 product lines coming off this site: lumber and rough lumber.
No agency document says whether this facility is buying today, what it pays, the minimum load it will take, or how far it will haul. AXE USA does not check any mill's licence, insurance, ability, or whether it is still in business - this page republishes a public record and nothing more.
Reading this listing
What it means for your timber
The source goes no further than hardwood here, which is a starting point rather than a specification. The species guides take the trees one at a time - what each is cut for, how it is graded, and where the line between pulpwood and sawtimber falls.
It is one of 2 facilities listed in Arenac County, which is where a search for a sawmill near me starts if your ground is in that county. The Arenac County section of the state page has every one of them side by side, and all 302 Michigan listings run across 73 counties - which is the map that decides whether a load leaves your gate for twenty minutes or two hours.
Anybody searching for a sawmill near me needs more than one gate. If this one will not take your wood, the nearest other listings are Brindley Lumber and Pallet Company, Inc. in Lupton, 11 miles away, Sterling Sawyer's Inc. in West Branch, 15 miles away and From the Log Up, LLC in Hale, 15 miles away. Distances are straight lines between the coordinates the sources published - not road miles, and not a statement that anybody is buying.
None of this says whether the gate is open or what the load would fetch - no agency document records that. A price comes out of a sale run properly: the landowner's guide to selling timber takes the steps in the order they happen, and sealed bidding puts one tract in front of several buyers at once instead of taking the first number offered.
What else is listed around it
2
Listed facilities in Arenac County
1
Of them run as a sawmill
11mi
Straight line to the nearest other sawmill
302
Listed facilities statewide
Across Arenac County the sources list 1 post & pole plant, 1 sawmill. A facility can be listed under more than one of those, so the numbers overlap rather than adding up.
Where this listing comes from
- Source document
- Michigan Forest Products Mill Data (Michigan Department of Natural Resources) (opens in a new tab)
- Edition
- February 2025
- Fetched by AXE USA
- 2026-08-18
Fields are never merged between documents: every line above came from this one record, so a listing from a source that publishes no phone number stays without one.
Other mills in Arenac County
Every other listed facility in Arenac County, Michigan.
Nearest Sawmill listings in Michigan
Ordered by straight-line distance from the coordinates the source published for Maple Ridge Hardwoods Inc. - not by road miles, and not by who is buying.
- Brindley Lumber and Pallet Company, Inc.Lupton, Ogemaw CountySawmill11 mi
- Sterling Sawyer's Inc.West Branch, Ogemaw CountySawmill15 mi
- From the Log Up, LLCHale, Iosco CountySawmill15 mi
- Matthews MillSouth Branch, Iosco CountySawmill22 mi
- Johncock Forestry Products, Inc.South Branch, Ogemaw CountySawmill22 mi
- American Lumber and TieRose City, Ogemaw CountySawmill23 mi
This listing comes from an agency document. Mills close and move between publications. If you know this one is shut, has moved, or the number is wrong, tell us and we will check it.
Got timber to move in Arenac County?
This listing says where Maple Ridge Hardwoods Inc. is and what the agency records it as taking. It does not say what it will pay. Put the tract out for sealed bids and let the buyers around Sterling answer that themselves.