![Vacation Week on Drummond Island - 2022 Photo Gallery](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Drummond-Island-2022-Jeep-CJ7-Nate-Marblehead-470x140.jpg)
Drummond Island is an all-seasons vacation paradise in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The third largest island in Lake Huron, Drummond Island offers 129 miles of mostly…
![Kayaking To The Portland Shipwreck at Besser Natural Area](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Portland-Shipwreck-Kayak-Paddle-Lake-Huron-Michigan-470x140.jpg)
Kayaking has been a big part of our summer adventures over the last five years. In 2020 while visiting Drummond Island I had the chance…
![Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore 2021: Record Visitors For Seventh Consecutive Year](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DSCN0932-470x140.jpg)
Earlier this month we looked at a record breaking 2021 for Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and today we turn our attention to the Upper…
![Is Michigan's Platte River Campground the Best Campground in America?](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20200801_125432-470x140.jpg)
Just in time for the last two months of summer, a new set of Reader’s Choice polls are up at 10best.com. Current contests are focused…
![Rotary Island Park, Sault Ste. Marie - Freighters and Family Fun](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Rotary-Park-Sault-Ste.-Marie-Paul-Tregurtha-freighter-470x140.jpg)
There’s no shortage of things to do in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan’s oldest city. One of the main draws here is the Soo Locks, which…
![2020 Was a Record Year for Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Sable-Falls-Pictured-Rocks-470x140.jpg)
For the first time in its history, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore saw more than one million visitors during 2020. The large jump in visits is…
![10 Things To See and Do at Presque Isle Park in Marquette](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/20200610_121139-470x140.jpg)
It’s hard to pick Marquette’s top destination when recommending the area to new visitors. You could tell people to go hike Sugarloaf Mountain, walk through…
![Michigan Kayak Trips: The Pine River Offers Challenges, Beautiful Scenery](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pine-River-Kayak-Trip-Michigan-470x140.jpg)
After a summer of kayaking the Flat River many times, we were looking to paddle different Michigan rivers that presented more of a challenge. In…
![20 "New To Us" Michigan Places We Visited in 2020](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/XXXXXMarblehead-Jeep-Trail-DI-Jonathan-Katje-470x140.jpg)
2020 has been a challenging year for vacation plans, traveling, and well, just about everything else too. We took a break for a few months…
![Travel the Mitten - Our 21 Michigan Travel Goals for 2021](http://travelthemitten.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Moose-2021-Michigan-Travel-Goals-470x140.jpg)
The time has come to start planning for next year’s Travel the Mitten day trips and vacations, and we thought a fun way to do…