Category Archives: Parks

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 pie. It’s [...]

Be A Tourist In Your Own Town – Lansing, May 30th

We wanted to draw attention to this annual event in Lansing as it is something every city in Michigan should consider emulating. It is just too easy to grow into the mind set that where you reside there is absolutely nothing to do or that you have already seen it, done it, surfed it. [...]

Memorial Day Weekend Michigan Style 2009

Happy Memorial Day by lorainedicerbo
Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam Circumspice
Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial beginning of the summer season in Michigan and the weather forecasts around the state look to be favorable. Businesses in sleepy towns are waking up, and community plans for festivals and ongoing summer fun are taking shape after weathering it through [...]

A belated 97th birthday tribute to "The Corner"

Last "Everything" at Tiger Stadium by RichKD
Tiger Stadium from Wikipedia
Tiger Stadium (formerly known as Navin Field and Briggs Stadium) is a stadium located in the Corktown neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan. It hosted the Detroit Tigers Major League Baseball team from 1912 to 1999, as well as the National Football League's Detroit Lions from 1938 to [...]

Photo Friday: grand portal point to grand island by northern_latitudes

Tim says that he's a resident of Northern Michigan who loves the area and all it has to offer. When he's not behind the camera, he's either working, writing, out on the water, on his bike or on a trail - or just relaxing and thinking of that next image.
This photo is part of his [...]

Photo Friday: January Snow Storm by ~Jetta Girl~

Tina says she took this in the Shiawassee Wildlife Refuge (a secret path to Narnia).  Have a look at the Narnia pics from the Absolute Michigan pool.
She is a Cancer Survivor, Volkswagen fanatic, Animal lover, Kayaker who suggests:
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those [...]

Blogs We Dig: Black Coffee at Sunrise

Snowshoeing by nasunto
Billed as a blog about camping, hiking, nature and Michigan with occasional sarcasm and embellishment, Black Coffee At Sunrise was recently recognized at Backpacker Magazine in their Daily Dirt section online. We think the recognition is well deserved.
Blogger Nina describes her blog:
Despite the unstable times we are facing, there is [...]

Photo Friday: Digital Ice in October at Fort Custer by bill.d

Bill has some more pics from Fort Custer, including one of the elusive Eagle Lake Monster.
Some of his cool sets include Up North, Synergy, United States Post Office (which I hope he continues to expand) and Michigan History (view as slideshow). He also has some really cool pictures of a D-Day re-enactment in Benton Harbor/St. [...]

(tahquamenon) fall color

The photo is tahquamenon falls by postpurchase.
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Photo Friday: Hunter's Point by darylann

Daryl Ann writes:
Located at Copper Harbor, on the west side of the tip of the Keweenaw Peninsula, in Michigan's beautiful upper peninsula (aka the U.P.), Hunter's Park overlooks Lake Superior. Note the cool fissure in the black lava rock, with quartz crystals looking as if they're bursting out! This is one place I will certainly [...]