![Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival Celebrates 100 Years in 2024: Don't Miss These Events!](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Grand-Haven-Coast-Guard-Festival-Michigan-100-years-2024-470x140.jpg)
The Grand Haven Coast Guard Festival is one of West Michigan’s marquee summer events, as thousands head to the lakeshore to tour ships, watch parades,…
![Walk of Art Sculpture Park in Elk Rapids: Explore the Trails and Art by Lake Michigan](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Walk-of-Art-Sculpture-Park-Elk-Rapids-Spire-and-Orb-Industrial-Arts-Institute-470x140.jpg)
One of our goals for this year with Travel the Mitten was to explore at least two new sculpture parks. We’ve loved previous visits to…
![Is Petoskey or Traverse City the Best Small Town in the Midwest?](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Petoskey-Hemingway-Statue-Best-Small-Town-470x140.jpg)
It’s one of our favorite times of year, as USA Today launches a round of 10Best Reader’s Choice polls centered around small towns. Michigan is…
![Is Michigan Home to The Best Flower Festival in the U.S.?](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Tulip-Immersion-Garden-Entrance-Photo-Op-Holland--e1708397204119-470x140.jpg)
We aren’t far from the start of spring, and USA Today/10best is back with another Reader’s Choice Poll looking for some of the best festivals…
![Two Michigan Locations Once Again Up For Title of Best Sculpture Park](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Frederik-Meijer-Gardens-Sculpture-4-470x140.jpg)
A new round of USA Today 10best Reader’s Choice polls are up, and we could almost just cut and paste an article from last year…
![More Love for the Motor City: Does Detroit Have the Best Street Art and Best Art Museum?](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Detroit-Michigan-Best-Street-Art-470x140.jpg)
Last week we highlighted a USA Today 10best Reader’s Choice poll that had two Detroit museums in the running for Best Science Museum and Best…
![Photo Gallery: World of Winter 2024 in Grand Rapids](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/World-of-Winter-2024-Grand-Rapids-Downtown-Cover-Photo-470x140.jpg)
The World of Winter festival has returned to downtown Grand Rapids for a seventh year, and offers some amazing art installations and tons of family…
![2023 Year In Review: 23 Michigan Places We Visited For the First Time](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Asylum-Lake-Preserve-Heron-Kalamazoo-470x140.jpg)
At the end of each year I always have fun looking back at all of our great Michigan adventures. One of my favorite things to…
![Travel the Mitten Best of 2023: Our 23 Most Viewed Posts This Year](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Fishermans-Island-State-Park-Tropical-Michigan-470x140.jpg)
One of my favorite things to do each year is look back at what our most viewed posts were. This helps for future planning by…
![Two Mackinac Island Hotels Are In Running To Be Named Best in U.S.](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Mackinac-Island-House-Hotel-Michigan-470x140.jpg)
Midway through the summer travel season, 10best.com has released its next round of Reader’s Choice Award finalists. Michigan has had a pretty good year with…