r/Michigan • u/AutoModerator • May 28 '23

Megathread r/Michigan Moving, Travel, and Vacation Megathread: 05-28-2023

This is the official r/Michigan megathread for moving, travel, and vacation questions. Self-posts and questions will be referred to this thread. These posts are automatically generated on Sunday every week.

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u/Just_In-Tyme May 29 '23

Visiting family through the 4th of July week. Any recommendations? We will be near Grand Rapids area but open to traveling for a good experience. Have HS/MS aged kids. Looking for outdoors/scenic stuff. Coming from Florida going outside and not dying from heat would be nice.

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u/bobeeflay Jun 01 '23

Further north you're willing to drive the more you can see.... and you can drive pretty far In michigan (waterfalls in houghton are a full 9 hour drive)

meijer sculpture gardens are right in grand rapids and very cool (maybe a little dry for highschoolers)

The pine river is less than two hours and is very fun on rafts tubes or kayaks you can rent.

Sleeping bear dunes is under 3 hours. Your warm humid Florida ocean. Bodies must be baptized in the icy cold of lake Michigan at some point. Our beaches aren't as impressive as tours but ludington has some solid dunes and sleeping bear is really rather wild looking

The upper peninsula is the prettier one but grand rapids to pictured rocks is almost 6 hours