Category Archives: Lodging & Travel

Michigan waterfalls on Michigan in Pictures

Tannery Falls by trumansnare One of the regular guests on the Michigan in Pictures photo blog are waterfalls. Go Waterfalling is the go-to site for Michigan waterfall information, and they say that Michigan has over 200 named waterfalls. The Michigan waterfalls category on Michigan in Pictures has over 60 posts from the big ones like Spray Falls, [...]

Porcupine Mountains Music Festival ~ August 26-28

The Porcupine Mountains Music Festival takes place Friday August 26 through Sunday August 28 and is the only festival to take place within a state wilderness park. The lineup of artists is truly impressive. The festival is headlined by one of the most highly awarded ensembles ever assembled, Mountain Heart, and other national performers include [...]

August Michigan Event Calendar

Also see our Michigan Event Calendar, the Pure Michigan Blog’s excellent August 2011 Event Roundup and definitely sign up for our email list because we have FREE tickets (marked in light blue) to a number of the events below in our Festival Summer Giveaway! The dog days of summer are upon us and Michigan is [...]

Traverse City Wine & Art Festival ~ August 20th

Traverse City Wine & Art Festival, 2010 by KatSwinehart The 2011 Traverse City Wine & Art Festival takes place Saturday, August 20th from 3-10 PM on the beautiful front lawn at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, rain or shine. It’s Michigan’s premier celebration of wine, art, food and music, offering an incredible opportunity to taste wines [...]

Five Things You Need to Know Heatwave Edition: Beat the Heat in Michigan

Before we suggest a few ways to beat the heat, we’ll set the mood with Motown’s own Martha Reeves & the Vandellas who started at the Motown office in Detroit as William Stevenson’s secretary and was also charged with supervising Stevie Wonder during office hours and singing occasional backing vocals. Berry Gordy was impressed with her [...]

July Michigan Event Calendar

Expanse by g. s. george You don’t have to travel far when you live in Michigan to find a whole lot of fun. We encourage you to support the festivals, events, cities and businesses that are making all the cool things happen around the state. So get out this summer and have some fun and [...]

Michigan: Great Lakes Surfing Capital

Surfing Michigan by farlane We’ve pulled together a great collection of Great Lakes & Michigan surfing videos with a few links: The photo was taken on Lake Michigan at Leland. You can see more surfing photos on Michigan in Pictures and also on Northern Michigan Surf on Facebook and in the Surfing slideshow from the [...]

Festival Summer EXPLODES on the 4th of July!

We had some great entries from individuals and organizations, but our panel selected Eric Campbell of Traverse City who wrote: As a winner of the Festival Summer, I would chronicle the events on both my personal and company Facebook pages and blog. As the owner of a design firm (Tandem) and one-time music publication creator, [...]

Muskegon Summer Celebration ~ June 30 – July 9

Neal is our winner of a pair of passes to every night of the Summer Celebration. He says that while he has several favorite festivals, the Detroit Electronic Music Festival takes the cake. The annual Muskegon Summer Celebration takes place June 30 through July 9. It’s an all star music extravaganza with headliners including West Michigan’s [...]

Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival on June 18th

Awesome report from the Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival by our friends at Michigan By the Bottle! The Lake Michigan Shore Wine Festival takes place on Saturday, June 18th from 1-10 PM at Weko Beach on Lake Michigan in Bridgman. It’s a showcase event that allows you to sample locally grown and produced varietals and [...]