Category Archives: Parks

Absolute Michigan’s 2009 Labor Day Roundup

Mackinac Bridge Walk by carolynne marie Since1882 the first Monday of September has been recognized as a time to salute Americas workers with festivals, cookouts and parades on “a day off for the working man.” With school starting after the Monday, September 7 holiday, the long Labor Day Weekend is an ideal time to squeeze [...]

Michigan Rated #1 in Social Media Tourism Promotion

Travel Michigan has announced that it has earned the top-ranking amongst the 50 official US tourism office Web sites in the use of social media. In a recent study, How Social is Your State DMO (national break down pdf), How Social is Your State DMO (Michigan by city break down pdf) conducted by Gammet Interactive, [...]

Photo Friday: Menonaqua Beach by michiganartisan

michiganartisan (Robert deJonge) says that he thrives in both the digital and natural worlds, creating images with camera and computer. Some of his tags are sleeping bear dunes, Petoskey and Michigan (slideshow). Dive into his Flickriver and see and purchase his work at Robert DeJonge Images. Share this:

Photo Friday: #75,000 is Grand Portal by [JARED]

Welcome to a very special Photo Friday on Absolute Michigan, the 75,000th photo in the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr!! I can’t tell you how amazingly cool it is that so many people have graciously allowed us to use their photos to help tell the stories of Michigan. Thank you, all of you. [ JARED [...]

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 [...]

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. We [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]