
Fall Color Tours: Old Mission, Traverse City, Leelanau & Benzie
Our next stop (as designed by Travel Michigan) is the region of Northwest Lower Michigan containing Traverse City - Northport - Frankfort. This also appeared on Michigan in Pictures. There's a lot of links on Absolute Michigan that can add…

Photo Friday: McLain Lighthouse (Close up) by useful fiction
The word of the week this week on Absolute Michigan was lighthouse, so I thought I'd go to the Absolute Michigan pool and search for "lighthouse". As of this morning, there are 714, and they make a pretty nice slideshow. Rather than taking…

Five things you need to know for Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Welcome to a special "Big Wednesday" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan.
Big Surf in Grand Haven
The Grand Haven Tribune has a feature on meteorologist Will Beaton, who has realized his life-long dream of surfing and…

Fall Color Tours: Mackinaw City - Charlevoix - Petoskey
outside east jordan, mi. by redmudball
The photo to the right is of the St. John Nepomucene Catholic Church of East Jordan (link) and is part of Casey's Fall in East Jordan set.
While the color is still in full bloom in the Upper Peninsula,…

Warm weather makes Michigan a little giddy
Pier jumpers in October by Five eyes
Michigan has experienced a record run of heat, with many places such as Mt. Pleasant (which topped a 100+ year old record for the hottest October day) shattering their record temps over the last few…

Word of the Week: Lighthouse
Betsie Lighthouse by wuji9981
The word of the week is lighthouse, and with 116 lighthouses (more than any other state), Michigan could well be known as the Lighthouse State. More lights means more preservation needed, and the Michigan Lighthouse…

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Pictured Rocks
Miners Castle - October 2006
Let's jump over to the eastern side of the UP for the next color tour of Munising - Newberry - Grand Marais ... and the Pictured Rocks.
The highlight of this tour is of course the stunning Pictured Rocks…

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Keweenaw Peninsula
Our second fall color feature (in conjunction with Michigan in Pictures) is the Keweenaw Peninsula, way up north and surrounded by the icy waters of Lake Superior, is one of the first places in Michigan to be touched by autumn's paintbrush.
Michigan.org's…

Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Western Upper Peninsula
This was also posted on today on Michigan in Pictures along with a great view of Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park - check it out!
View from the Top by MoodyGoat
Ironwood - Silver City - Wakefield is the first Michigan fall color…

Michigan October Event Calendar
Upper Tahquanemon Falls by JohnnyRR
A sampling of Michigan festivals & events for the month of October. As usual, there's no way we'll get them all, so please add links and information about those we've missed (or reviews of ones we…

Photo Friday: Dazing by Becca
It seems like not too long ago that I was marveling about the Absolute Michigan group on Flickr - where we get most of the photos we use here - passing 600 members and not too much longer back that we were excited to see the 500th member.
Becca…

Michigan's Famous Landmarks
Kathy says that this is what Ann Arbor is famous for: Michigan Stadium aka The Big House, the largest (American) football stadium in the world and the University it serves.
That got me wondering, what landmark is YOUR Michigan town or…
