Carefree Travel Guide 2026

Photo courtesy of Windmill Island Gardens

History

SOUTH Berrien Springs •History Center at Courthouse Square Coldwater •Tibbits Opera House Hastings •Historic Charlton Village, Museum & Recreation Area Hickory Corners •Gilmore Car Museum CENTRAL Coopersville •Coopersville Farm Museum •Coopersville Historical Museum Grand Haven •Tri-Cities Historical Museum Grand Rapids •Blandford Nature Center •Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum •Grand Rapids African American Museum & Archives •Grand Rapids Public Museum Holland •Holland Museum •Windmill Island Gardens Ludington •Big Sable Point Lighthouse •Historic White Pine Village •Lakeshore Keepers

•Ludington North Breakwater •Mason County Historical Society •Port of Ludington Maritime Museum •SS Badger Mears •Little Sable Point Lighthouse Muskegon •Fire Barn Museum •Hackley & Hume Historic Site •Lakeshore Museum Center •Muskegon Heritage Museum of Business & Industry •Muskegon Museum of History & Science •Scolnik House of the Depression Era •USS LST 393 Veterans Museum •USS Silversides Submarine Museum Whitehall •White River Light Station

UPPER PENINSULA

NORTH

CENTRAL

•W.K. Kellogg Conference Center and Manor House Kalamazoo •Air Zoo Marshall •Marshall Historical Society South Haven •Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum •Michigan Maritime Museum

UPPER PENINSULA Paradise •Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum

SOUTH

Harbor Springs •Harbor Springs Area Historical Society Leland •Leelanau Historical Society Museum •North Manitou Light Keepers

Mackinaw City •Mackinac State Historic Parks Manistee •Manistee North Pierhead Light •SS City of Milwaukee

NORTH Charlevoix •Castle Farms Frankfort •Point Betsie Lighthouse

Petoskey •Little Traverse Historical Society & History Museum Traverse City •Dennos Museum Center •Mission Point Lighthouse

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