![Museum Ship Valley Camp - 10 Things We Loved About Our Visit](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Museum-Ship-Valley-Camp-Interior-Sault-Ste-Marie-470x140.jpg)
As Michigan’s oldest city, Sault Ste. Marie is full of historic attractions. One of its most visible landmarks is the Museum Ship Valley Camp, a…
![Second Annual Freighter Frenzy Looking for Most Popular Great Lakes Ship](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Muskegon-American-Century-Freighter-MI-470x140.jpg)
A popular Twitter contest that looks to find the most popular Great Lakes freighter kicks off its second year later this week, and will run…
![Photo Gallery Friday: Marquette Maritime Museum and Lighthouse](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Marquette-Harbor-Lighthouse-Stairway-470x140.jpg)
Photo Gallery Friday is a regular feature on Travel the Mitten that will help showcase photos from places where a few pictures just aren’t enough…
![November 10, 2015: Remembering the SS Edmund Fitzgerald on the 40th Anniversary of its Sinking](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Edmund-Fitzgerald-Memorial-Whitefish-Point-470x140.jpg)
On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and all 29 of its crew members were lost on Lake Superior during a fierce storm. The…
![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…
![7 Ways to Experience Shipwrecks in Michigan Without Diving the Great Lakes](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DSC_0040_2-470x140.jpg)
Michigan is known as the “Great Lakes State” and also home to more lighthouses than any other state. Many of these lighthouses helped navigate ships…