Category Archives: Resorts

Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Boyne Mountain & Boyne Highlands Ski Tickets

All January we have been giving away ski tickets to Michigan resorts in our January Ski Month Giveaway. Our last giveaway is to one of the pioneering ski resorts in Michigan. boyne highlands lodge by northernlightphotograph Boyne Mountain started in 1947 when Detroit native Everett Kircher moved to northern Michigan to build a ski resort. [...]

Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Ski Tickets to The Homestead

View from Bay Mountain by Patrick Kuras Our January Ski Month giveaways continue with a chance to win a pair of lift tickets to The Homestead in Glen Arbor – to be eligible, just add your email to our list using the form above! As you can see from the photo, Bay Mountain at The [...]

Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Lift Tickets to Shanty Creek

Ski Month keeps rolling on Absolute Michigan with our latest giveaway, a pair of lift tickets to Shanty Creek near Bellaire in Northern Michigan. Shanty Creek boasts a 450′ vertical drop and has 53 runs with 4 terrain parks and a 300′ half pipe on its two mountains. With nearly 200″ of snow every year and [...]

January is Skiing Month on Absolute Michigan!

Mulligans Hollow by Second Glance Photos Kevin Ryan January is Ski Month on Absolute Michigan, and all month long we are celebrating skiing in Michigan with original articles and features on downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding along with photos and videos that take you up close and personal with the Michigan ski experience. We’ll also [...]

Absolute Michigan Giveaway: Ski Tickets to Crystal Mountain

There’s an Upside and a Downside by farlane Northern Michigan kicked off 2012 with a big snowstorm and in January, Absolute Michigan will celebrate all that beautiful snow by giving away 4 pairs of tickets to 4 great Michigan ski resorts. We’ll also be heading out to the slopes to bring you reports & photos [...]

Live at the Michigan Culinary Tourism Conference

Click here for a video from the conference! All day today the Absolute Michigan team is at Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations, Michigan’s first conference on Culinary Tourism. The conference was a hot ticket, and nearly 200 tourism industry stakeholders are getting ready to learn about Michigan’s new initiative to increase tourism. You can learn all [...]

Celebrating Michigan’s Water Winner: Golden Dip

Golden Dip, photo by Aver123 Our judges have selected the winner in the Celebrating Michigan’s Water Photo Contest. The winning photographer, Avery Sullenger-Wedder will receive 2 nights at The Homestead Resort in Glen Arbor along with a Crystal River eco-tour! View it bigger or in the Michigan Water slideshow and thanks to everyone who participated! [...]

Celebrating Michigan’s Water Photo Contest

In the Michigan Immense Public Park by farlane Nearly 2400 photographers have shared over 100,000 photos with Absolute Michigan and Michigan in Pictures in the Absolute Michigan pool. We are ready to go with the next photo contest in Absolute Michigan’s Summer Photo Celebration, and we have decided to feature what nearly 8,000 photos in [...]

Tweet & Taste Michigan: Wines from Old Mission Peninsula

Courtney & Shannon Casey of MichiganByTheBottle.com are all about letting you know what’s what in Michigan’s fast-growing wine industry. One fantastic thing that they are doing are the Tweet & Taste Michigan virtual wine tastings conducted through Twitter. View from Chateau Chantal by troyryans Their next Tweet & Taste takes place tomorrow night (Monday Jun [...]

Learn to Ski at the Homestead Resort

In this Absolute Michigan Sponsor Spotlight, we make a brief visit to the Homestead Resort in Glen Arbor, Michigan and take a lesson with their Director of Skiing, Logan Price. Share this: