Sugar Loaf railway station Sugar Loaf railway station Sugar Loaf railway station is a railway station in Powys, Wales, and is the most geographically remote station on the Heart of Wales Line. It is located one mile to the north-east of a small but prominent knoll known as Sugar Loaf, around which the A483 road loops. The line through here was opened by the Central Wales Extension Railway in 1868; the station was closed to passengers in 1965 but subsequently reopened to traffic in 1984. This station is a request stop used mainly by trekkers and cyclists, since it is the nearest stop to
Sugar Loaf (Mackinac Island) of the Mackinac Island State Park near the junction of Crooked Tree Road and Sugar Loaf Road. It can be seen from "Point Lookout", near the Island's highest point. The primary sweetening enjoyed by people of all backgrounds on the frontier Great Lakes was maple sugar, packed into cone-shaped baskets or "makakoon" of birchbark. Sugar Loaf Rock was named for its resemblance to one of these cones. A wide variety of stories were told by Native Americans and frontier dwellers about Sugar Loaf. It was said by some to be the home of Gitchie Manitou. Other tales suggested that the