Category Archives: NW

Northwest Michigan

Photo Friday: Dock Light by kmay

Sets from kmay include home (glen arbor) and naturescape (slideshow). Check out their Flickriver. Share this:

Camping at the Sleeping Bear Dunes

This feature by former Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore park ranger Bill Herd appears courtesy Leelanau.com. It’s part of a summerlong feature America’s Lakeshore: A Comprehensive Guide to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. There’s tons more information available at that link! by Bill Herd Camping is as American as apple pie—oops, I mean cherry [...]

Live from the 2009 Boyne City Morel Festival

Editor’s Note: We originally planned for this to be a post-event feature, but Cherie was having so much fun that she wanted to give folks a chance to check out the rest of the festival today! morel spring 2008 by baldo1man When an avid morel mushroom hunter stands before 250 people recounting a time when [...]

Michigan Uncorked: Northern Michigan’s wine pioneer keeps it simple

Michigan Uncorked is a regular column by Lorri Hathaway and Sharon Kegerreis, writers who are passionate for Michigan and authors of award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries. Learn all about Lorri & Sharon and their book at www.michiganvine.com. Forty-five years ago, Bernie Rink planted grapes in northern Michigan. As a reflection of his own [...]

Michigan morels and the Boyne City Mushroom Festival

morel mushroom by Latitude 45 The Boyne City National Morel Mushroom Festival takes place May 14-17, 2009. This year is the 49th annual*, and the 4 day celebration of the morel mushroom includes a morel seminar and guided mushroom hunt on Friday and of course the Boyne Valley Lions National Mushroom Hunt on on Saturday [...]

Absolute Michigan’s Wide World of Sports: 2009 DN Gold Cup on Torch Lake

Just found out that the 2009 DN Gold Cup iceboat races are being held on Torch Lake today! If you go to that link during the racing, you’ll be able to watch them on the webcam I’m told! The photo above of yesterday’s opening ceremonies on Torch Lake is part of Gretchen Dorian’s great DN [...]

First Annual Ohio vs Michigan Wine Clash

You’ve heard of Bud Bowl, right? Well, panels of wine tasters in Ann Arbor and Columbus recently gathered to judge over 60 selected consumer-selected wines from Michigan and Ohio. It was the first purely consumer-selected judging of wines in either state and also unique by being limited to wines from grapes exclusively from Ohio & [...]

Michigan Radio’s Northern Arts Series

Deep Woods Press, photo by Todd Zawistowski Michigan Radio’s Jennifer Guerra recently took a trip to northern lower Michigan to explore the ties between art & community. One of her stops was Chad Pastotnik’s Deep Wood Press studio in Mancelona to learn about the centuries old art of letterpress: The first you thing you notice [...]

Road Trip: Benzie County Fallfest October 4-5 & 11-12

Benzie County Coastal Color by John Clement Howe The annual Fall Festival offers two weeks of fun in Frankfort, Beulah, Benzonia and the surrounding area. The Benzie County Visitor’s Bureau has a page of information on the festival and for more details visit the Frankfort-Elberta Chamber. Weekend of October 4-5 Fall food takes center stage [...]

Dig Michigan: Traverse City

Traverse City is the largest city in Northwest Lower Michigan, and the first of Michigan’s regions that we are exploring this month. Our goal with this series of articles is to give you a little taste of some great vacation opportunities that are probably less than a tank of gas away, so if you have [...]