Cheboygan County is located at the northern tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, and its northern border runs for more than 30 miles along the shoreline…
Emmet County is one of our state’s smallest counties by land area yet it is home to roughly 33,000 Michiganders. Petoskey is Emmet County’s largest…
Presque Isle County is located in the northeast Lower Peninsula of Michigan. One of the least populated counties in the Lower Peninsula (less than 13,000…
Ottawa County is Michigan’s seventh largest county by population and 52nd by land area. Known for its beautiful sandy beaches along Lake Michigan, it is…
Michigan is home to more lighthouses than any other state, with more than 120 beacons still standing along the shores of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan,…
The dream of owning your own Michigan lighthouse has seemed a bit closer to reality in the past few years, as many offshore beacons have…
If you’ve ever driven M-28 between Marquette and Munising in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, you’ve probably driven by the Grand Island Range Lights without even knowing….
One of the greatest examples of lighthouse restoration and preservation in Michigan is the St. Helena Island Lighthouse in the Straits of Mackinac. While many…
In June we had the chance to head up to the Northern Lower Peninsula and visit a few lighthouses we had never been to before…
Squaw Island is a small island at the far northwest of the Beaver Island archipelago (14 islands in all). This remote, 70-acre island is home…