Great info so far.
In Mi. there's a section in the hunting guide and online to help you find public hunting on private land, these are usually unhunted and prime spots. From my experience it's almost always good farmland where the owner is getting too old to hunt and wants the animals that are eating his crops thinned out. They've always been very pleasant and helpful to me, especially when I've taken deer.
As mentioned above, wherever you take your safety class will most likely have brochures or pamphlets that can help you find an organization that may be exactly what you're looking for and the other "students" at the class may be in your exact same position.
Find food and water sources as well as the bedding and trails between the two. SCOUT A LOT BEFORE SEASON to find out when they're moving between the two and at what times. Look for natural funnels where the deer are forced to move, these are prime places to set up. Funnels can be water, hillsides, cliffs, fallen trees, where ridges come together in a saddle, high fences, etc; whatever forces them in a certain direction.
Most importantly, pay attention to the wind. Even a breeze so slight that you barely feel it will give you away at a great distance.
Train your eyes while your sitting dead still to look through the trees and shrubs and not at them, look as far as you can or until you see ground through the vegetation and watch for movement not your prey. We're set up to detect movement and you'll start to see so many things that you may have never noticed. Don't count on your ears, until you've spent a lot of time sitting still in the woods you'll find that they're lying to you- that's not a big buck that you hear, it's a dead tree moving in the wind or a squirrel, etc.
Give it a few trips and you'll be writing stuff for us old timers.
However you do it, have fun and if you get the opportunity please teach someone else.
