How to vote for Michigan’s Best Vacation Spot
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Michiganders enjoy Lake Michigan during a recent heat wave at Pere Marquette Park in Muskegon, Michigan on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. Alison Zywicki | azywicki@mlive.com
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Northern Lower Peninsula?
And along the Lake Michigan shoreline? Thumb?
We have a total of eight regional polls in our search for Michigan’s Best Vacation Spot, and we want you to vote for your favorites. The deadline to vote in our polls is 11:59 p.m. Friday, April 30.
As always in our Michigan’s Best polls, you can vote once every three hours, per email address.
If you look at Benzie County on Google Maps , you’ll notice a dark green strip of land about five miles long between Platte Lake and Crystal Lake. That’s where a long-proposed scenic road would run – between U.S. Highway 31 and M-22 – taking people from Beulah into Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.Read More
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That’s where a long-proposed scenic road would run – between U.S. Highway 31 and M-22 – taking people from Beulah into Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
The land is mostly dense hardwood forest and it s extremely hilly.
“This is almost a 90-degree descent here we’re going to go down here, so we may want to keep our hands free,” says Andy Norman, a retiree of Michigan State University Extension who lives nearby.
Andy Norman lives near the proposed Benzie Scenic Road. Much of the land consists of hilly, dense hardwood forest.
Credit Dan Wanschura / Interlochen Public Radio
After about three-to-four miles of rigorous hiking, he peaks a ridge and scans the horizon.
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A destination for writers, then vacationers
While we all are imagining post-pandemic travel destinations, Visit Fort Wayne has been working to draw others here. A prominent mention of Fort Wayne s “affordable urban outdoor adventures” in USA Today will help.
Jessa Campbell, marketing and communications manager for the visitors bureau, said the national publication s story came from cultivating a relationship with a Chicago-area travel writer whose “6 Scenic Midwest Road Trips for Outdoorsy Families” was first featured on the Family Vacationist website. The writer visited the city in 2018, and Visit Fort Wayne met virtually with her in November to share updated information about the city.