Michigan’s landscape offer so much to choose from: beaches; forest; hundreds of islands; isolated peninsulas.  The diversity sets the state apart in so many ways.

Sleeping bear dunes: A national lakeshore anchored in one of the upper midwest’s premier playgrounds, Sleeping Bear Dunes is a pastoral, 24, mile drive west from Traverse City.

Palms Book State Park

You need to visit Kitch-iti-kipi, or Big Spring, 11 miles northwest of Manistique on the Upper peninsula.  The spring is 288-acre Palms Book State Park on Indian Lake.  Visit michigan.org/parklands