The Great Lakes State, planned for you
Find your shoreline in Michigan.
Sleeping Bear Dunes at sunrise, fudge on Mackinac Island, the Porcupine Mountains in October color. Your family trip starts here.
Explore destinationsSeasonal highlights
Every season redraws the map.
Four ways to see Michigan this year.
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Pick the corner of the state that fits.
Five regions, five different vacations.
West Coast
Grand Haven's musical fountain, Saugatuck's art galleries, and the longest freshwater beaches in the world. Families come for the sand; couples stay for the sunsets.
West Coast destinationsNorthwest
Traverse City, Sleeping Bear Dunes and the Leelanau Peninsula — cherries, vineyards and dunes within an hour of each other.
Northwest destinationsUpper Peninsula
Pictured Rocks, Tahquamenon Falls and the Porcupine Mountains. The UP is Michigan the way it looked two hundred years ago.
Upper Peninsula destinationsSoutheast
Detroit's riverfront and Motown Museum, Ann Arbor's campus and cider mills. Big city weekends with lakes an hour away.
Southeast destinationsNortheast
Alpena's shipwreck sanctuary, the sunrise coast of Tawas, and Thunder Bay — Michigan's quietest shoreline.
Northeast destinationsFeatured destinations
Four places to start.
The classics, for a reason.
Traverse City
The Cherry Capital: harborfront dining, Old Mission wineries and Sleeping Bear Dunes forty minutes away.
Plan Traverse CityMackinac Island
Step back to a town with no cars — bikes and horse-drawn carriages on every street, fudge on every corner.
Plan Mackinac IslandSleeping Bear Dunes
Climb the dune that made National Lakeshore history, then cool off in the clear water of Glen Lake.
Plan Sleeping BearPictured Rocks
Forty miles of sandstone cliffs painted in mineral color along the Lake Superior shoreline.
Plan Pictured RocksYour trip is three clicks away.
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