The Chippewa County landscape includes a 23-mile section of Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail, a recreational trail comprising sections of public and private land that denotes the southern edge of the state's last glacier. Glacial remnants of the 15,000-year-old deep freeze include the many kettle lakes and moraines that characterize the region today. Popular year-round outdoor pursuits include biking and hiking, water sports on 400-plus lakes and creeks and winter sports including cross-country skiing, snowmobiling and ice-fishing. Chippewa Falls, just a few miles outside of Eau Claire, is the county seat. There was a combined around $25 million of farms, rural land, hunting land and other land for sale in Chippewa County recently on Land.com. The total of all Chippewa County farms, hunting land and other rural land and acreage for sale was almost 5,000 acres. Chippewa County ranks 66th out of 83 counties in the Wolverine State for the total number of acres of land currently advertised for sale. Sault Sainte Marie had the most land for sale. Government and state-level services are the main economic drivers in Chippewa County. Chippewa County is one of the ten largest counties in Michigan (2,698 square miles). It's located in the Upper Peninsula Michigan region of the state.