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M-22 Fall Color Tour!

One of the wonderful things about Michigan is the changing seasons and the most dramatic of these is the fall color change. During October and the first part of November the countryside comes to life with bright yellows, oranges and deep reds. One of our favorite color tours is along highway M-22 between and Glen Arbor.   read more...

Make Michigan Your Spring Thing!

You may think of Michigan as your summer thing, but I can assure you the local traffic has already picked up as weekenders are making their way into the quaint Lakeshore communities bringing with them their families and the spending dollars. Snowbirds are returning, and decks at our local restaurants are already opening.   read more...

Free Traverse City Gas Offer:

"It's Not Just About Us"
The Traverse City Convention & Visitors Bureau's "Pump Up Your Summer" program provides a $25 Speedway gas card to anyone who books a stay of four nights or more at any of 43 participating hotels, motels or resorts. The program is good until Labor Day 2006.   read more...

ATOP MICHIGAN, ATOP THE WORLD:

Perch offers rare view of Great Lakes splendor
Do it for your readers. Do it for every Michigander who would love to stand above our glorious state, at the spot where its two peninsulas are joined by steel, and say, "Wow."   read more...

Looking For Mr. Petoskey Stone

Instantly recognizable by their trademark honeycomb pattern of sunbursts and rays, Petoskey stones are found on the shore along much of Michigan’s northwestern coast. Beachcombing for the distinctive fossils has been a favorite activity of tourists to the Traverse City area for more than a century.   read more...

A Morel Dilemma

Spring Brings Mushroom Hunters To Traverse City In Search Of "Truffles Of The North"
It's the wild morel, a spring mushroom that grows throughout North America but seems most at home in the hardwood forests of the Great Lakes states. Each year, hundreds of devoted mushroom hunters head to the wooded slopes around Traverse City to search for these "Truffles of the North", combing the hillsides for the well-camouflaged fungi.   read more...

THINK SPRING!

Signs of Spring are EVERYWHERE in Michigan. The FIRST sign of real Spring came here on the beaches of Lake Michigan. The snow fences came down and now there is nothing between beachcombers and the water.   read more...

Super Bowl XL Comes to Detroit

Detroit is going to the Super Bowl! Sorry did I say that? What I meant to say was the Super Bowl is coming to Detroit. On February 5th the big game is going to be played in Ford Field. Be sure you check this article for the surprise ending!   read more...

Put On Your Mittens and Find Your Winter Thing

As the last of our leaves fall from the trees and swirl in our yards before being caught in a gust that takes them away, Michigan’s golf courses, campgrounds, and seasonal parks take a vacation of their own. Around the same time references to the "Great Lakes State" dwindle and the preferred nickname becomes "Winter Wonderland".   read more...

What is A Michigan Thing?

My earliest memories as a little girl are of sitting on the beaches of Michigan with a sand shovel in one hand and bright green pail right beside me. Over my lifetime, after several moves around the Midwest including through Ohio and Indiana, I always found myself returning here. By the time I reached my mid-life and had kids of my own, I had migrated from the soft flat stoned beaches of Lake Huron to the white sand beaches of Lake Michigan. There is just something special about Michigan.   read more...