anitasadventure (Chalet05) - Mackinac Island

[chalet05]

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[Liz]

Loved this post and pictures! I can see a return visit in your future...and a first-time visit in mine.

[Rufflesgurl]

Anita - thank you for sharing your pictures of Mackinac Island. It is so beautiful there - can see why you want to go back. When we were there, there was a wedding at the first church in your pix. The bride arrived in a white carriage - was really pretty. I especially loved all the beautiful flowers and, of course, the Grand Hotel is beautiful also - I think we went in a back entrance so we really got to see it all.

Linda

[cpatinjones]

Just amazing! I want to visit there!

[JudyJB]

It is indeed a wonderful place to visit! Great place to ride a bike--rent one or bring your own over on the ferry. Hotel porters will take your luggage on their bikes or by taxi. The island has the only state highway (8 miles around the island along the lakeshore) where cars are not allowed--only bikes and horsedrawn carriages.

You can also rent a drive-it-yourself carriage or a riding horse. There are carriage tours, or you can also take a horse-drawn taxi.

Best time to visit is early June when the lilac trees are in bloom or Sept. Gets cool however. Once the "fudgies" leave on the last ferry, it is a wonderful and quiet place because of the lack of traffic. (Unless there is fog and then the lighthouse foghorn goes on all night.)

Guess I need to go back once more before I leave Michigan for good.

[AlmostThere]

Breathtaking. Takes one back in time.

[JudyJB]

It does take you back in time. Residents are pretty much sealed off for a couple of months in winter when the ferries stop running. There is a small airport for small planes, and the braxe take snowmobiles across a few miles of ice to St. Ignace, but most just stay put.

And it was where the Christopher Reeve movie "Somewhere in Time" was filmed. Except they allowed a sports car in for the filming at the Grand Hotel, one of the great old resorts remaining in the U.S.