![Forty Mile Point Lighthouse - A Historic Beacon on Lake Huron's Shipwreck Coast](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Forty-Mile-Point-Lighthouse-Michigan-470x140.jpg)
The 40 Mile Point Lighthouse is so named due to its distance by boat from Mackinaw City. In the late 1890s this brick building was…
![Old Mission Point Lighthouse - A Historic Beacon on the 45th Parallel](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Mackinac-Traverse-City-Last-Part-UP-Trip-with-Boys-2253-470x140.jpg)
M-37 heads north from Traverse City for a little more than 17 miles, passing by orchards, wineries and scenic barns before it reaches its end….
![Holland Harbor "Big Red" Lighthouse - A Lake Michigan Icon at Holland State Park](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Holland-Harbor-Lighthouse-Michigan-1-444x140.jpeg)
Our Lake Michigan shoreline is home to more than 20 unique and beautiful lighthouses, but few are as iconic as the Holland Harbor Lighthouse, know…
![Grand Traverse Lighthouse on Lake Michigan - Leelanau State Park](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Mackinac-Traverse-City-Last-Part-UP-Trip-with-Boys-2367-470x140.jpg)
The Leelanau Peninsula that separates Lake Michigan and Grand Traverse Bay is known for its scenic beauty, abundance of wineries, excellent fishing near Northport, and…
![Alpena Light - A Unique and Iconic Breakwater Lighthouse on Lake Huron](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/DSC_0118-470x140.jpg)
Michigan is home to more lighthouses than any other state in the country, and each one is unique in its own way. The Alpena Light…
![Point Iroquois Lighthouse - Climb the Tower for Great Views of Lake Superior and Canada](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Point-Iroquois-Lighthouse-Sault-Ste-Marie-470x140.jpg)
There are more than a handful of historic lighthouses in Michigan on the shores of Lake Superior, and most of them have been preserved for…
![Photo Gallery Friday: Shepler's Ferry Lighthouse Cruise, Eastbound Extended Trip](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Mackinac-Traverse-City-Last-Part-UP-Trip-with-Boys-1001-470x140.jpg)
Photo Gallery Friday is a regular feature on Travel the Mitten that will help showcase photos from places where one post just isn’t enough to…
![Whitefish Point Lighthouse and Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum - Paradise, MI](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Whitefish-Point-470x140.jpg)
Michigan is home to more lighthouses than any other state, and while many of these beacons guide mariners past treacherous shoals, reefs and rocky shorelines…
![Sand Point Lighthouse - A Historic Museum Site on Little Bay De Noc in Escanaba](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Sand-Point-Lighthouse-and-Marker-470x140.jpg)
Escanaba quickly became one of the most important towns and ports in the Upper Peninsula in the 1860s, and sandbars in the Little Bay De…
![Shepler's Lighthouse Cruises - Get Up Close To Michigan's Remote and Scenic Lighthouses](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/white-shoal-light-426x140.jpeg)
Shepler’s Ferry is celebrating their 70th anniversary this year, and if you’ve ever taken one of their blue and white boats to Mackinac Island you…