If you opened this page from the code in Lakeshores, Dunes & the Straits, you are in the right place. The PDF is the trip you can buy today on Etsy. The paperback is coming soon. This page does not replace the book. It is the web companion: the lakeshore place pages we keep, the trip guides, and the shop.
Lakeshore places on this site
The Lakeshores guide is built around four trips. Each one has a sourced place page here.
- Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior, with Munising Falls and Au Sable Light
- Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Lake Michigan
- Mackinac Island State Park
- The west-Michigan dune parks: Ludington State Park, Big Sable Point Light, Silver Lake State Park and Little Sable Point Light
Other lakeshore pages we keep, if you want to keep walking the shore: Grand Haven, Holland and Big Red, Point Betsie, Petoskey, Wilderness State Park, Tawas Point, Isle Royale. The full list is on Places.
Trip guides
The web trip pages are the sourced overviews. Maps and day plans stay in the PDFs.
- Pictured Rocks first-visit guide
- Sleeping Bear Dunes first-visit guide
- Mackinac Island trip guide
- Ludington and Silver Lake trip guide
The free Ludington and Silver Lake sample downloads from /bonus/, no email. All four web guides sit under Guides.
The shop
Buy on Etsy. There is no cart on this site.
- Michigan Lakeshores Road Trip Guide (PDF), $11.99
- Mini guides for Pictured Rocks, Sleeping Bear and Mackinac Island, $5.99 each
- Michigan Christmas ornaments and coaster sets of the same places
- Michigan gifts if you are shopping for someone else
The Lakeshores paperback is listed on the books page as coming soon. We have not posted a date.
