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Autumn in Michigan: Something for Everyone4813

Photo Friday: Wagner Falls by Luminous Light Huntress4801

Photo Friday: the brink - tahquanemon falls by jiant@flickr4793

Absolute Michigan's 2009 Labor Day Roundup4767

Michigan Rated #1 in Social Media Tourism Promotion4765

Photo Friday: #75,000 is Grand Portal by [JARED]4755

Be A Tourist In Your Own Town - Lansing, May 30th4688

Autumn in Michigan: Something for Everyone
The crowds and traffic have subsided, the harvests are bountiful and the mosquitoes are few and far between. What we're trying to say is that autumn is perfect time to get out and enjoy a color tour, take in a late season festival or event, go camping or hit one of Michigan's numerous wineries and pick up a few bottles for holiday gifts or get-togethers.

Photo Friday: Wagner Falls by Luminous Light Huntress
Luminous Light Huntress (Tamara Jacobs) says that she loves landscape photography, especially waterfalls. Also that she's a tree hugger in a major way and aims to merge her passion for the environment with her love of landscape photography. Her sets include Waterfalls, Natural Landscapes, Man Made Scenics, My Favorites and Porcupine Mountains.

Photo Friday: the brink - tahquanemon falls by jiant@flickr
jiant@flickr (Scott Jones) took this photo with a Holga 120 at the Upper Tahquanemon Falls in October of 2006.

FROM MICHIGAN IN PICTURES

Rock Harbor Lighthouse, in lifting fog - Isle Royale National Park, photo by Mark S. Carlson

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MSU 4-H Children's Garden
A special garden where plants and children and imaginations grow. Visit the web site for tons of information, garden webcam, virtual tour and much more.

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A Divers Guide to Michigan Underwater Preserves
Dive maps and diving info for Michigan's 11 preserves: Alger, De Tour, Keweenau, Manitou, Marquette, Sanilac Shores, Southwest Michigan, Straits of Mackinac, Thumb Area, Thunder Bay and Whitefish Point. (Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County)
Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum is the only one of its kind dedicated to the perils of maritime transport on the Great Lakes. It is fittingly located at Whitefish Point, Michigan, site of the oldest active lighthouse on Lake Superior. (Paradise, Chippewa County)
Life Along the Manitou Passage
A collaborative presentation of the maritime history of the Manitou Passage (Manitou Passage Underwater Preserve). Includes photos, writings, maps and information about settlements, shipwrecks and lighthouses. (Leland, Leelanau County)
Mackinac State Historic Parks
Mackinac State Historic Parks is a family of living history museums and nature parks in northern Michigan, including Colonial Michilimackinac, Historic Mill Creek, and Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse in Mackinaw City and Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island. (Mackinac Island, Mackinac County)
Michigan CRS Reservation Service
This site is available for making all of your campground and harbor reservations any time of the day. Come out and enjoy the outdoors by reserving a destination everyone can enjoy. (Lansing, Ingham County)
MSU 4-H Children's Garden
A special garden where plants and children and imaginations grow. Visit the web site for tons of information, garden webcam, virtual tour and much more. (East Lansing, Ingham County)
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
This Upper Peninsula park features sandstone cliffs, beaches, sand dunes, waterfalls, lakes, forest and more than 40 miles of Lake Superior shoreline where hiking, camping, sightseeing, and four season outdoor opportunities abound. (Munising, Alger County)
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Established in 2000, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater Preserve maintains stewardship over one of the nation's most historically significant collection of shipwrecks. Headquartered at the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center in Alpena. (Alpena, Alpena County)