Mackinac island and door county
We are trying to decide how many days we need to spend at each location any ideas appreciated......thanks
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This is the tough part, because it depends on personal preferences.
I can do 2-3 days at Mackinac Island before I run out of things I want to do. I can go back a few years later and do it all again. Other people have seen all they want to see in a day, yet others go to the island for a week, two weeks, or the whole summer. If I'm going someplace for the whole summer, I want a little more to do, so maybe Chicago, NYC, Beijing, the whole of England, but not a little resort island.
The Door Peninsula has more to work with, if what you want to do is explore nature's wonders or what cultural features have been created for summer visitors. I have no direct experience with the Door Peninsula, only comparable environments like the Traverse City area of the NW Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Baraboo area of Wisconsin, Driftless area of SW Wisconsin, and the Marquette area of the Michigan Upper Peninsula. Any of these I can keep myself busy exploring. I'm a geologist, I explore the rocks and history of economic uses. I have botanist friends who study the plants, biologists looking for bugs and reptiles.
With what interests me, I could likely survive the whole summer in the NW corner of the Lower Peninsula (tens of thousands of families have been doing it for more than a century) but I'd be lost after a week on Mackinac Island unless I connected with some really interesting people.
But not eveyone has such interests. I have a sister who is happy sitting quietly for a week on a beach, before ready to go back home. Another sister needs amusement parks and theme parks, or someplace whete she can zipline a couple miles of treetops, or jump out of a perfectly running airplane for the thrill of falling a mile before opening her parachute.
So what turns you on. History? Exploring? Studying nature? Roller coasters? Theme parks? Chilling on the beach with a not very good but easy to read best seller? Or jumping out of airplanes?
I can do 2-3 days at Mackinac Island before I run out of things I want to do. I can go back a few years later and do it all again. Other people have seen all they want to see in a day, yet others go to the island for a week, two weeks, or the whole summer. If I'm going someplace for the whole summer, I want a little more to do, so maybe Chicago, NYC, Beijing, the whole of England, but not a little resort island.
The Door Peninsula has more to work with, if what you want to do is explore nature's wonders or what cultural features have been created for summer visitors. I have no direct experience with the Door Peninsula, only comparable environments like the Traverse City area of the NW Lower Peninsula of Michigan, Baraboo area of Wisconsin, Driftless area of SW Wisconsin, and the Marquette area of the Michigan Upper Peninsula. Any of these I can keep myself busy exploring. I'm a geologist, I explore the rocks and history of economic uses. I have botanist friends who study the plants, biologists looking for bugs and reptiles.
With what interests me, I could likely survive the whole summer in the NW corner of the Lower Peninsula (tens of thousands of families have been doing it for more than a century) but I'd be lost after a week on Mackinac Island unless I connected with some really interesting people.
But not eveyone has such interests. I have a sister who is happy sitting quietly for a week on a beach, before ready to go back home. Another sister needs amusement parks and theme parks, or someplace whete she can zipline a couple miles of treetops, or jump out of a perfectly running airplane for the thrill of falling a mile before opening her parachute.
So what turns you on. History? Exploring? Studying nature? Roller coasters? Theme parks? Chilling on the beach with a not very good but easy to read best seller? Or jumping out of airplanes?
