#PARADISE BEACH MICHIGAN MOVIE#

It's basically a Michigan beach town theme park.Īs for Mackinaw City, it essentially serves as a holding pen for the island, with a substantial number of shops and small restaurants crammed into the city right by the ferry docks. Mackinac Island is all about biking, shopping, and eating, as well as gawking at all the pastel-colored historic Victorian homes, marveling at the absence of motorized vehicles, and dodging road apples from all the horse-drawn carriages.

#PARADISE BEACH MICHIGAN MOVIE#

not unlike the movie famously filmed on the island, Somewhere in Time. That gives the painfully picturesque, tiny island the quality of feeling lost somewhere in time. Located where the waters of Lakes Huron and Michigan meet at the impasse of Michigan's peninsulas, you can only get to Mackinac Island by boat. Peak Michigan at the collision of two Great Lakes The Krumwiede Forest Reserve has no dunes and no panoramic views of the lake, but it is a beautifully preserved 110-acre wooded area, so you can get some quality forest appreciation time. And if trudging through giant sand piles isn't your idea of a vacation well spent, the lovely, 9-mile Alligator Hill Trail through the forest also offers great views of Lake Michigan. And that's the charm.Įven still, there is the iconic Art's Tavern and Grocer's Daughter Chocolate in Glen Arbor, and the Cherry Hut to the south of Empire in Beulah for cherry pie (which you must try).

Together, there's still not a whole lot going on beyond taking a million selfies on the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive and the 260-foot Dune Climb. Individually, there's not a whole lot going on outside of the dunes and the state’s finest kitesurfing conditions. With their proximity to the sprawling, world-famous shoreline that is Sleeping Bear Dunes, Empire and Glen Arbor really function as two sides of the same coin at the base of Michigan's pinkie. Small town charm along Michigan's most iconic coastline

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