Boyne Highlands Resort

Boyne Highlands is a mid-Western skiing icon, offering a wide variety of lifts and slopes, as well as full resort accommodations, numerous festivals and continuous night-life. Adventures include heading up to a mountain ski lodge for a picnic lunch, cross-country skiing, tubing, zip lines and more.

Night life often begins at the Zoo Bar with live bands when the slopes close. At the lodge, the Slopeside often hosts bands and sports tv. Resort visitors would well consider a visit to the spa or hot tubs.

A lesser known secret is Boyne Highlands often hosts the end-of-season snow boarding party, the last weekend after the season ends, with Spring skiing and amazing tricksters.

In summer, the Boyne Highlands resort offers golf, mountain biking, zip lines, horse back riding and a full spa.

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www.boynehighlands.com

Antiques Art & Collectibles Storefront

Antiques Art & Collectibles

The huge Antiques Art & Collectibles store in Downtown Pellston is a favorite stop for visitors and shoppers and is a wonderful treasure hunt destination.

Antiques Art & Collectibles offers fabulous treasures for your home or cottage, including pottery, paintings, furniture, glassware, books, and all manor of vintage, Victorian and collectible items. The year-around Christmas store includes vintage and beautiful holiday decorations and gifts.

Don’t miss the Funky Diva Boutique in the basement of Antiques Art & Collectibles for a fantastic collection of new, nearly new, and vintage clothes for every season at reasonable prices.

Housed in Historic 1800’s buildings, remodeled as a Folk-deco masterpiece, this store has something for everyone! As you shop for hand-chosen and clean antiques and vintage mementos, as well as kitchenware, china and furnishings, be sure to take in the restored tin ceiling, cleverly crafted barn wood, along with the incredible Gallery of Doors, featuring 29 hand painted vintage doors. Antiques Art & Collectibles is a must-see destination for treasure hunters, history buffs, and anyone looking to add beautiful antiques, decor, gifts, collectibles, jewelry and  everyday items.

Antiques Art & Collectibles is located on US-31 North in downtown Pellston, across from the Depot Museum.

web site: antiquesnorth.com
phone: (231) 539-8030

114 Stimpson Street, Pellston, Michigan … googlemap

Colonial Michilimackinac

Treasures from the past come to life at this 18th-century fort and fur trading village. As you walk through the site, you are stepping back in time to 1776, as the American Revolution spread. Reconstructed based on historic maps and more than 60 years of archaeological excavations that continue today, Colonial Michilimackinac offers a one-of-a-kind experience from cannon and musket firings to hearth cooking and crafts.

Located on the shore of the Straits of Mackinac, visitors can enjoy stunning views of the Mackinac Bridge, the straits, and the Upper Peninsula.

https://www.mackinacparks.com/parks-and-attractions/colonial-michilimackinac/

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Historic Mill Creek Discovery Park

Witness the power of the creek harnessed to cut timber into lumber at one of the oldest industrial sites on the Upper Great Lakes. On the Adventure Tour, explore the treetops on the Forest Canopy Bridge, soar like an eagle on the 425′ Eagle’s Flight Zip Line, and experience the layers of the forest on the five-story Treetop Discovery Tower. 

Afterward, take time to explore the natural beauty of Mill Creek State Park, which has more than three miles of groomed hiking trails. 

https://www.mackinacparks.com/parks-and-attractions/historic-mill-creek-discovery-park/

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University of Michigan Biostation

The University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) was founded in 1909. UMBS students and faculty have been studying environmental change since day one.

UMBS was established on land acquired from lumber barons after virtually all the trees had been cleared. Student and faculty researchers studied the biota of a landscape ravaged by catastrophic logging and subsequent fires, allowing them to learn first-hand how land exploitation impacted the natural environment.

The station’s 10,000-acre property has since been reforested via natural processes. But new environmental challenges have emerged, climate change and invasive species foremost among them. Fortunately, dedicated student and faculty researchers continue to roll up their scientific sleeves at the station, and they do so with an increasingly interdisciplinary approach. Natural historians collaborate with microbiologists, ecologists with climatologists, geologists with atmospheric scientists. These cross-disciplinary interactions – strengths of UMBS – foster a greater understanding of the natural world.

Today, UMBS students engage in and learn about biology and environmental science by studying directly in the field and by developing relationships with some of the world’s most respected experts. UMBS is a highly interactive community where students, faculty and researchers come together to learn about the natural world, to examine environmental change, and to seek solutions to the critical environmental challenges of our times.

https://lsa.umich.edu/umbs

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Wilderness State Park and Beach

Reaching into Lake Michigan from the edge of the Mackinac Straits, Wilderness State Park offers a peaceful and exotic camping and beach going. Located adjacent to the Dark Sky Park, sleeping under the veil of stars at Wilderness State Park is a bucket-list adventure!

http://www.michigandnr.com/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?type=SPRK&id=509
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Headlands Dark Sky Park and Beach

Journey to the northern tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula to find the amazing International Dark Sky Park. Featuring spectacular views of the amazing Milky Way and countless stars above, the Headlands east of Mackinaw City offers frequent education and entertainment on site.

Cross Village

Cross Village along the Lake Michigan shore is just south of Sturgeon bay offers dining with spectacular views.

Legs Inn in Cross Village

Through the summer Legs Inn offers live music and spectacular dining. Don’t miss the Halloween Costume Ball the Sunday (or two) before Halloween… spooktacular!

Nearby is the Old World Cafe featuring European Cuisine as well as local shopping and gas.

A few miles South of Cross Village is the Woolam Family Nature Preserve featuring a lovely hike down to the beach.

On Bikes, Cross Village is a lovely stop when riding through the Tunnel of Trees. It is also the lunch stop for the Zoo-de-Mack bike ride in May.

Sturgeon Bay

Sturgeon Bay Beaches

Northwest… Sturgeon Bay is a pristine and beautify Lake Michigan bathing and beach-stone exploration spot. Nestled in a peaceful driftwood cove and surrounded by dunes with trails and private spots Kayak on a calm day or Kite Surf on a windy day. Bring chairs and enjoy the sunset. It can be a little buggy for a few weeks a year, so bring some bug dope. One of the best beaches in North America.

Pack it in, pack it out. Help keep Sturgeon Bay clean. Do not collect or remove stones, wood or artifacts. If you find a beautiful stone, enjoy it, share it then throw it back as far as you can so a future explorer can enjoy it again and again.

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