Michigan s best state park? National travel magazine names its favorite
Mackinac Island State Park is Michigan s best state park, according to Condé Nast Traveler.
Last week, the luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published its list of best state parks in each of the country s 50 states. Throughout the U.S., there are over 10,000 state parks, home to thundering herds of bison (like in South Dakota s Custer State Park), colorful thousand-foot-tall cliffs (found in Palo Duro Canyon in Texas), and some of the country s highest waterfalls (at Tennessee s Fall Creek Falls), the magazine said. Plus, state parks are generally less crowded, more affordable to visit, and, often, more pet-friendly than national park alternatives. . We’ve selected the best state park in, you guessed it, every single state what we consider the best state parks in the country.
New rustic backcountry cabin at Porcupine Mountains opens for summer reservations
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The Cotten Cabin was added to the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park s backcountry lodging offerings this year. | Photo by Michigan Department of Natural Resources
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ONTONAGON, MICH. Backcountry explorers at Michigan’s Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park have a beautiful new spot to consider when booking their next trip.
The new Cotten Cabin is a rustic three-room log cabin that sits on a slice of land on the park’s western edge, overlooking Lake Superior. The cabin is about a mile walk from the nearest parking lot, offering the kind of seclusion that many people are seeking when visiting the 60,000-acre park.
– Hancock Public Schools
“We have just applied for funds from the state of Michigan to run the program,” said Patchin.
The programs will operate Monday – Thursday each week, from 9 a.m. Noon and include lunch for all students. Sessions will begin June 21 and end August 12.
“These fun and engaging learning experiences will be held for all K-12 students interested in participating from the participating districts,” Patchin said. “The high school learning programs will be, course, specific and count toward graduation requirements. All learning programs will be taught face-to-face.”
In addition to the Northern Lights Summer Program, there will also be the Northern Lights Summer Adventure Program, for which, said Patchin, funding has already been applied.
7 fresh ways to explore Michigan’s great outdoors this spring
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If hope were a season, it would be spring. Every sign of its return feels like optimism embodied: Birdsong and bicycle bells, budding trees, the soul-stirring scent of rain.
This spring, that sense of promise feels especially potent and necessary. Just as a crocus pushes up from underground after a hard, long winter, many of us are stepping into this new season after an isolated and challenging year. We have mixed emotions, no doubt, but Mother Nature continues to offer her good medicine: beauty, wonder, proof that life goes on. Fresh air and sunshine, too as essential to our own thriving as they are to the ever-greening world.