Northern Michigan Road Trip: Leland to Mackinac Island: the places
14 places from this post, mapped as a trip.
- Food & drinkTiny farm-to-table tasting menus from Eric Patterson and Jennifer Blakeslee — book weeks ahead
- Food & drinkIce cream on a working dairy farm — eat on the porch watching the herd
- Attraction1870 lighthouse at the tip of the winery-lined peninsula, near the 45th parallel
- AttractionWorking 1800s fishing village of gray shanties on the Leland River
- Food & drinkFifth-generation dockside fishery — get the smoked whitefish pâté
- Food & drinkSandwiches on house pretzel bread, worth the summer line
- AttractionThe 200-foot sand wall everyone climbs — bring water and empty shoes after
- AttractionLoop drive to the Lake Michigan Overlook, 450 feet above the water
- Attraction1.5-mile round trip to a boardwalk over Lake Michigan — the locals' sunset spot
- AttractionQuieter bluff-top overlook facing the Manitou Islands
- Food & drinkAmerica's oldest family-owned grocery (1884) — picnic supplies without the Main Street lines
- AttractionLimestone arch 146 feet above Lake Huron on the M-185 loop
- Attraction1780 clifftop fort with cannon firings and the best harbor view
- LodgingThe 1887 icon with the world's longest porch — 660 feet of it