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…
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…
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…
The stretch of Lake Huron shoreline between the Saginaw Bay and Alpena was a rough one for mariners in the 1800s, which led to the…
On a recent trip to Alpena and the northern Lake Huron shore, we stumbled upon a local museum that fits perfect into my interests of…
On a recent trip to the Upper Peninsula, my hobby of tracking down Michigan Historical Markers led me to Thompson, just east of Manistique, and…
As the only lighthouse within the boundaries of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, the Au Sable Point Light Station has a long a storied history…
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…