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This specially designed three-hour driving tour is comprised of five towns in Michigan's Thumb with their various attractions and amusements. One of the most unexplored regions from a tourism perspective, Michigan’s Thumb Area offers a unique and different experience from the typically congested cities and “top destinations” of the state. The area is pristine [...]
Part 1 The Great Lakes offer an overabundance of shoreline – so you have your pick of beaches. Enjoy the cool, refreshing water and lakeside breezes of Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, or Lake Superior, the final destinations of these three road tours. (Three more tours will follow in a second article.) Each tour requires 30 [...]
What’s on your travel to-do list this year? There always seem to be too many places to visit and not enough time to do it all in one year. As the calendar flips to January, make it a priority to plan to scratch one or two things off the list in the next 12 months. [...]
USA Today’s 2024 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards were recently announced, and although it’s tough to choose a favorite beach in Michigan, the top 10 are well-deserving of the honor. Here’s the catch: Visit all 10 beaches in a single road trip and you’re looking at 888 miles and more than 16 hours in the [...]
Autumn is a special time in Michigan. The vast wilderness looks like an impressionist’s painting, and the bursts of color found throughout cities and towns pop with joyous flare. The Northwest Lower Michigan region, between Grand Rapids and the Mackinac Bridge, is abundant with color and life this time of year. Here are three fall [...]
Driving time: 1 hour, 45 minutes Mileage: 63 miles You can choose to make this into a driving tour, or you can select a park at which to spend time, depending on your schedule. The good news, all of these parks circumvent the busyness of Metro Detroit – and they are beautiful places to visit, [...]
Driving Time: 11 hours, plus two ferry rides Mileage: 622 miles According to Uptravel.com, “Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is greater in size than the four states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island combined. It is larger than Belgium or Switzerland.” Abundant in beauty and natural resources, we are fortunate to call this part of the [...]
OKEMOS, MI—January 2023—The Michigan Association of Recreation Vehicles and Campgrounds (MARVAC) has made their 2023 edition of Michigan RV and Campgrounds available to the public. The annual publication features how-to articles for seasoned and first-time RVers; destination ideas for across Michigan; and a complete member listing of private campgrounds, RV dealers, and RV suppliers from [...]
Mileage: 284 miles Driving Time: 6 hours, 20 minutes In Part 1 of this article, we drove from the southwest corner of the state all the way up the Lake Michigan coastline to the town of Muskegon. But the West Michigan Pike doesn’t end there. In old postcards and advertising it was promoted as “Lake [...]
Grand Traverse Bay in northwest Lower Michigan is really one large expanse of water separated by Old Mission Peninsula, effectively “splitting” it into East and West Grand Traverse Bay. The bays lead to Lake Michigan. For this driving tour, you’ll meander all the coastlines, starting in Charlevoix County in Norwood, traveling south to Traverse City, [...]
