Carefree Travel Guide 2023

WEST MICHIGAN MAPS

• Port of Ludington Maritime Museum • SS Badger • Sable Points Lighthouse

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Keepers Association SPLKA.org 231-845-7417 Climb our 4 lighthouses in

West Michigan! Big Sable Point, Little Sable Point, White River Light Station and Ludington North Breakwater. MACKINAW CITY 2 • Mackinac State Historic Parks MANISTEE 8 • SS City of Milwaukee MARSHALL 20 • Marshall Historical Society MUSKEGON 10 • Lakeshore Museum Center 430 W Clay Ave LakeshoreMuseum.org 231-722-0278 Visit all of the Lakeshore Museum Center locations for hands on, interactive exhibits, tours, and programs spanning 400 million years of Michigan’s history. • Fire Barn Museum • Hackley & Hume Historic Site • Muskegon Heritage Museum of Business & Industry • Muskegon Museum of History & Science • Scolnik House of the Depression Era • SS Milwaukee Clipper 2098 Lakeshore Dr MilwaukeeClipper.com 231-299-0784 Visit the oldest surviving Great Lakes passenger ship. View art deco furnishing, lounges, staterooms, the pilot house and ship engine, plus a maritime museum and ship model displays. • USS LST 393 Veterans Museum

• USS Silversides

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Submarine Museum 1346 Bluff St SilversidesMuseum.org 231-755-1230 Plan a day near the lakeshore and scenic Pere Marquette Park to tour two historic vessels, a real WWII submarine: USS Silversides, and Prohibition Era US Coast Guard Cutter McLane. PARADISE 1 • Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum 18335 N. Whitefish Point Rd ShipwreckMuseum.com 888-492-3747 People often call Whitefish Point “hauntingly beautiful”. Experience shipwrecks, lighthouses and life-saving at the oldest active lighthouse on Lake Superior. PETOSKEY 4 • Little Traverse Historical Society & History Museum PORTAGE 19 • Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Center 6151 Portage Rd AirZoo.org 269-382-6555 Explore history and flight at this Smithsonian-affiliated aerospace and science museum. Discover immersive exhibits and explore the world renowned restoration center, featuring WWII aircraft rescued from the bottom of Lake Michigan. SOUTH HAVEN 16 • Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum • Michigan Maritime Museum 260 Dyckman Ave MichiganMaritimeMuseum.org 269-637-8078 Experience the new exhibit Full Steam Ahead: The Golden Age of Great Lakes Passenger Steamships in the Maritime Heritage Center. The Museum offers multiple exhibit buildings and an On-Water Fleet.

3 Harbor Springs

4 Petoskey

5 Charlevoix

6 Traverse City

7 Frankfort

8 Manistee

9 Ludington

10 Muskegon

12 Coopersville

13 Grand Rapids

11 Grand Haven

14 Holland

15 Hastings

18 Kalamazoo 16 South Haven

17 Hickory Corners

20 Marshall

19 Portage

22 Berrien Springs

21 Coldwater

TRAVERSE CITY 6 • Dennos Museum Center • Mission Point Lighthouse Peninsula Township

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