1958 3cent Mackinac Bridge Postage Stamp
Every Labor Day the Mighty Mac opens to pedestrian traffic for the annual Mackinac Bridge Walk. Below is a slew of information about the walk and the bridge itself.
50th Anniversary Mackinac Bridge Walk of 2007
Check out Get moving, Michigan with the annual Labor Day Mackinac Bridge Walk on Absolute Michigan, a report on the 2007 Bridge Walk with pictures and also see the Mackinac Bridge Walk on Michigan in Pictures.
Information from Wikipedia:
Mackinac Bridge Walk
Mackinac Bridge information
Mackinac Bridge designer David B. Steinman
Other Sites:
DOT Mackinac Bridge Website
Official Website of the Mackinac Bridge
Straits of Mackinac & Mackinac Bridge
Building the Mackinac Bridge
The breathtaking Mackinac Bridge from the Detroit News
The Mackinac Bridge - Background Reading
Video:
Cool old film footage of a drive across the bridge
Various YouTube videos of the bridge
Have a great Labor Day weekend and be sure to check out an interesting shot of the bridge over at Michigan in Pictures.
5 Comments
Be sure to check out the Cool old film footage of a drive across the bridge under Video - it's great!
I would really enjoy doing the walk. But am curious if a registration is needed. I am also curious if it is possible to be sponsored by a group/organization. I am a slightly disabled person wanting to bring awareness to the people who've helped me regain the ability to walk. If you have any comments or info. that would help us, please e-mail me at jtriebsch@yahoo.com. Thanks!!!
Jacob
Hello Jacob, it's a HUGE event with thousands of people (it'll be even bigger this year) and registration is not required!
The 2007 Labor Day Bridge Walk was "awesome". The weather was perfect. My husband and I have walked the bridge before, and still are unable to walk it in less than an hour and a half. Mackinaw City on the otherhand was less than ideal. As we watched the people waiting in line to get on the buses, wind through town, it was then, that we decided to take quick action and grab the next Shepler ferry to the island and then on to St Ignace. It worked out perfectly. We had a leisure boat ride, a relaxing meal at the Pink Pony and met some new friends. When we returned to St Ignace, Shepler's had a shuttle bus take us back to our jeep, back by the bridge. Unlike most, we didn't wait in line at all. Great time. We love da UP eh...and the Mighty Mac!!!
You've got to love Michigan!!
My family has been crossing the Straits annually since the 1940's traveling to Copper Country where our Finnish ancestors had settled. We had 3 generations walking together on Monday and we had a great time!!!
L. Hart
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