Traverse Wine Coast excels in international wine competition
Text: R. Collins // Photography: Traverse City Tourism Apart from its temperate-weathered, picturesque golf courses dotting freshwater coastlines and inland forests, northern Michigan is renowned worldwide for the quality of its wine production. Recently, the region excelled at the TEXSOM…
Car, motorcycle show thunders back into Mt. Pleasant
Text: R. Collins // Photography: HBACM, Mt. Pleasant Area Convention & Visitors Bureau The summer is a time of barbecues firing up, lake waters warming, and collector cars emerging from their garages to join motor parades and shows across the…
Gaylord’s golfing mecca
Text: R. Collins // Photography: Gaylord Area Convention & Tourism Bureau Of Michigan’s popular golf destinations—of which there are many—the Gaylord area is well-rounded with a total of 17 golf courses and 21 lodging facilities falling under the Gaylord Golf…
The Apple of the Great Lakes Bay Region
Text: Brenna Buckwald // Photography: Apple Mountain In the heart of Michigan’s six-city Great Lakes Bay Region, Apple Mountain in Freeland, Michigan not only features a par-72 championship golf course and golf passes for unlimited time on the generous fairways,…
Play Petoskey
Text: Brenna Buckwald // Photography: Kevin Frisch, Evan Schiller, BOYNE, Dunmaglas Golf Course For the Petoskey Area Visitors Bureau, its regional footprint comprises a collection of resort communities and villages, a beautiful natural landscape, and a variety of outdoor, recreational…
Scottish summer links
Text: R. Collins // Photography: Mt. Pleasant Area Convention & Visitors Bureau As the summer heats up, play is popular at Eagle Glen Golf Course in Farwell, Michigan. As part of the greater Mt. Pleasant area’s picturesque network of golf…
The serene play at The Links at Bowen Lake
Text: Brenna Buckwald // Photography: The Links at Bowen Lake Golf Course The Links at Bowen Lake Golf Course in Gowen, Michigan, provides a country getaway with an 18-hole bentgrass, public golf course sweeping over wetlands and rolling meadows—and a…
Shanty Creek adds Hawk’s Eye to course lineup
Text: R. Collins // Photography: Shanty Creek Resort In a brand-new addition to its roster of four championship golf courses, and four-season dining, lodging, and entertainment, Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire, Michigan has announced the addition of Hawk’s Eye Golf…
The Mt. Pleasant summer swing
Text: R. Collins // Photography: Mt. Pleasant Area Convention & Visitors Bureau, PohlCat Golf Course Tucked into a bend along the Chippewa River, facing the Williams-Blackburn Preserve just beyond, the PohlCat Golf Course holds 18 holes of complex, scenic golf…
Upper Peninsula’s gaming paradise
Text: Brenna Buckwald // Photography: Island Resort & Casino “There is no resort in the Midwest that has the big casino, over 340 rooms, a showroom, a spa, convention center, multiple restaurants, and two championship courses,” said Tony Mancilla, general…