Category Archives: Camping & RVs

Photo Friday: North Point Beach 3 by nasunto

August 22, 2008 – 12:22 pm

Nina (nasunto) spent 4 days, 3 nights backpacking at the Grand Island National Recreation Area in the Hiawatha National Forest. It's an amazing place that offers great hiking & camping along with killer views as you can clearly see in her Grand Island National Recreation Area set (slideshow).
Other sets in her Michigan collection include Porcupine [...]

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Dig Michigan: Kalamazoo Region

August 13, 2008 – 1:36 pm

Situated approximately half way between Detroit and Chicago and home to Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo is the second 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 [...]

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Hoxeyville Music Festival July 25 – 27

July 18, 2008 – 3:54 pm

3 Days & Nights of Music - Camping - Disc Golf - Canoeing - Food & Merchandise Vendors
Located west of Cadillac, MI near the Pine River deep in the Manistee National Forest, the festival grounds are conveniently located 300 yards west of the Kestelwoods Campground, Party Store and Restaurant. Check out the website for information [...]

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Travel Local: Michigan State Parks Map

June 11, 2008 – 9:01 am

One of the recent additions to our Absolute Michigan Map are all of Michigan's State Parks (97 or so). They can be found by looking for the little pine tree (which is the same symbol used to identify them on road signs!).
The photo is morning mist by tobibritsch, who says that this was taken at [...]

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Dig Michigan: The Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore

May 15, 2008 – 9:35 pm

Pictured Rocks Waterfall by ER Post
There's so much that I want to say about the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore that I have no idea where to start. Maybe all I need to say is that it's my favorite place on earth, and that I really hope you get a chance to visit there soon. That [...]

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Michigan travel incentives in response to gas prices

May 12, 2008 – 10:50 am

How Much?! by luna.nik
Gas is all over the news because it's apparently quite expensive, and never mind the fact that it has been pretty darn expensive for a couple of years now. Michigan hit another all time high of $3.84 per gallon last week and the numbers are rolling on at michigangasprices.com where they range [...]

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Marquette, Michigan – 'Paradise Found'

March 27, 2008 – 7:22 am

NW vista by DA2Brian
Marquette, MI has been named one of the top 200 places in the U.S. for sportsmen and women to put their roots down in the April edition of Outdoor Life magazine.
These places exist in every state, towns where you can step out your back door with a fly rod or a shotgun [...]

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Michigan Historic Homes: Old Victoria Mining Village

March 18, 2008 – 9:32 am

"Tilted" by Tiffibunny
The picturesque ghost town of Old Victoria is one of the first sites ever mined for copper in the new world. This is where the famous "Ontonagon Boulder" was discovered that now resides in the National Museum of Natural Science at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
Four buildings have so far been [...]

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Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Pictured Rocks

October 4, 2007 – 9:21 am

Miners Castle - October 2006
Let's jump over to the eastern side of the UP for the next color tour of Munising - Newberry - Grand Marais ... and the Pictured Rocks.
The highlight of this tour is of course the stunning Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore., (be sure to check out Lars Jensen's other Pictured Rocks galleries). [...]

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Quincy Mine, Copper Country and the Keweenaw Peninsula

August 17, 2007 – 9:46 am

Abandoned Quincy Mine by Terrapin Dawg
Last Friday the New York Times had a nice feature on the Quincy Mine and Copper Country (aka the Keweenaw Peninsula) that begins...
Four hundred feet underground, in a musty, dripping passage into the Quincy Mine, Ed Yarbrough pointed to a dark opening in the wall. “Here’s an old explosives bin,” [...]

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