It Is Summertime In Michigan

Michigan is the place you want to visit this summer with a tremendous menu of things to see and do all over the state.  This summer, plan a trip to Michigan to explore our two peninsulas and four Great Lakes. You can start with our largest city, Detroit, where you can take a luxury sedan or limo to anywhere in the suburbs.

Then you can head out for a road trip along Michigan's 3,200 miles of lakeshore to unspoiled beaches and authentic beach towns.  Enjoy fun and romance by staying at a luxurious resort or cozy bed and breakfast. Escape on one of 11,000 inland lakes to fish, canoe, kayak or sail. Board a boat for a sunset cruise. Find yourself sipping wine at one of our award-winning wineries. Or, spend a relaxing day on the links. Golf Digest named the state the 12th best golf destination in the world.

The Festivals
If there’s a Michigan-grown fruit or vegetable there’s probably a festival for it somewhere in the state. Love blueberries? There are four blueberry festivals to choose from in Marquette, Imlay City, Paradise and South Haven. Pick and eat Michigan's famed cherry crop at the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, July 7-14.

In the agriculture-free zones the locals pick a product or a common interest and create a summertime celebration. Whatever their themes, festivals that occupy the June-July-August calendar pages have in common buckets full of summer fun.

Head for an urban festival experience in Detroit with summer favorites, The Detroit Festival of Arts, June 9-11, the new Detroit International River Days Festival, June 22-27 and the Comerica Tastefest, June 30-July 4. Soar at Battle Creek's Field of Flight Air Show & Balloon Festival June 29-July 4, or take flight at Balloons on the Bay in Escanaba, June 29-July 1.

Hitting the Beach
In Michigan you are never more than six miles from a body of water and 85 miles from a Great Lake.

With 3,200 miles of freshwater coastline touching the Great Lakes of Erie, Huron, Superior and Michigan there are plenty of great beaches to relax in the summer sun, or to head out for swimming, boating, fishing and other water adventures. America's top ten lake beaches include Oval Beach (Saugatuck), Pictured Rocks National (Munising) and Pere Marquette (Muskegon). Rock hounds scour Lake Superior's rocky shore for agates and other specimens, and the Lake Michigan beaches around Petoskey in search of the namesake state stone, the Petoskey stone. Take in a lighthouse or two (we have over 115), visit our State Parks with sandy beaches, hiking paths and modern camping facilities, or choose your favorite beach town location on the shores of the Great Lakes.

Hitting the Links
If you’re a “Big Game Hunter” when it comes to finding award-winning resort destinations and playing championship golf courses designed by the game's great architects, Michigan should be your next golf destination. The state features beautiful shorelines, rustic woods, and stunning views, where long, warm summer days continue into late evening, allowing golf aficionados to play more quantity and quality of golf than anywhere in the country.

Over the past two decades Michigan has become one of America’s premier summer golf destinations. Nowhere else in the country can you find so many world-class resorts combined with top championship courses. Golf Digest ranked the region as the 12th best golf destination in the world and 8th best in the country.