For Those With Only Summer To Travel

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan (stay IN Platte River campground), take a gentle canoe ride on the Platte down to Lake Michigan - a couple of hours time), the dunes, themselves, are awesome. Take the ferry from Leland over to South Manitou Island for a day trip (part of Sleeping Bear) and tour the lighthouse and beachcomb, another day trip to Traverse City for tourist stuff. Then head north to the Upper Peninsula. Stay at one of the campgrounds at the Mackinac Bridge and take the ferry to Mackinac Island for a day - rent bikes and buy fudge. Then further north into the Upper Peninsula to Taquamenon Falls State Park and do a day trip to Whitefish Point and tour the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Edmund Fitzgerald). Sault Ste Marie for another stop and watch the big ships come by. Lots to do in this section of Michigan!