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Best Hikes Near Detroit and Ann Arbor
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Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike? In Best Hikes Near Detroit and Ann Arbor author Matt Forster details the best hikes within an hour's drive of the Detroit and Ann Arbor area, perfect for the urban and suburbanite hard-pressed to find great outdoor activities close to home. Each featured hike includes detailed hike specs, a brief hike description, trailhead location, directional cues, and a detailed map.
Camping Michigan: A Comprehensive Guide to Public Tent and RV Campgrounds
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No other campground guidebook focuses solely on the Michigan quite like Kevin Revolinski's. Michigan offers a surprising array of quiet, out-of-the-way parks replete with lakes, rivers, rugged hills, and even rocky cliffs. Camping Michigan opens the door to these places. It includes: Up-to-date trail information and route descriptions Accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trails Difficulty ratings for each hike Historical highlights Detailed trail maps Zero-impact camping, and wilderness safety tips and techniques
Country Towns of Michigan: Charming Small Towns and Villages to Explore
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Discover the quaint shops, down-home cooking, and relaxed lifestyles of Michigan's historic country burghs and villages. These unique guides encourage readers to explore the quiet streets and unravel the secrets of a dozen or more fascinating rural communities.
A Field Guide to the Natural Communities of Michigan
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The culmination of three decades of work by Michigan Natural Features Inventory ecologists, this essential guidebook to the natural communities of Michigan introduces the diverse terrain of a unique state. Small enough to carry in a backpack, this field guide provides a system for dividing the complex natural landscape of Michigan into easily understood and describable components called natural communities. Providing a new way to explore Michigan’s many environments, this book details natural communities ranging from patterned fen to volcanic bedrock glade and beyond. The descriptions are supplemented with distribution maps, vibrant photographs, and comprehensive lists of characteristic plant species. The authors suggest places to visit to further study each type of natural community and provide a comprehensive glossary of ecological terms, as well as a dichotomous key for aiding field identification. An invaluable resource, this book is meant to serve as a tool for those seeking to understand, describe, document, conserve, and restore the diversity of natural communities native to Michigan.
Great Lakes Journey: A New Look at America's Freshwater Coast
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Great Lakes Journey is a follow-up to William Ashworth's earlier book The Late, Great Lakes, published in 1986. Fifteen years after his first trip, Ashworth journeys to many of the same places and talks to many of the same people to examine the changes that have taken place along the Great Lakes since the 1980s. Through personal observation, research, and numerous interviews with scientists, activists, and government agencies, Ashworth creates a detailed picture of the status of the Great Lakes at the end of the twentieth century. Among the most prominent changes he finds are the arrival of the zebra mussel and other exotic species, the rise and fall of the RAP process for pollution cleanup, a growing public mistrust of government action, a substantial loss of habitat and biodiversity, and an explosion of urban sprawl along the shores of the Lakes. Great Lakes Journey is a welcome update on the latest issues affecting the Great Lakes region.
Michigan Family Field Trips
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Written for busy parents and families on the go, Michigan Family Field Trips features the best Michigan places for children, in a format that's small enough to stow in a bag or the car. Ellyce Field explores 60 sites and includes restaurant suggestions for family-run establishments wherever possible, many of them with kids' menus. Michigan Family Field Trips is divided into four color-coded sections: southeastern Michigan, Mid-Michigan, Western Michigan, and Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. The book also includes important information about each site such as address, telephone number, Web address, hours, admission fee, parking, and age appropriateness. Features such popular and lesser-known sites as: Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum Cranbrook Institute of Science Detroit Puppet Theater Ford Rouge Factory Tour Lionel Trains Potter Park Zoo Curious Kids Museum Windmill Island Hartwick Pines State Park Soo Locks Boat Tour Ellyce Field writes for the Detroit News and is the author of the Detroit Kids Catalog series. Visit her website at www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=OPINION0338
The Michigan Roadside Naturalist
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The book begins with an educational yet accessible tour of important points in Michigan's natural and archaeological history, followed by seven road trips based on commonly traveled state routes, moving from south to north in the Lower Peninsula and east to west in the Upper Peninsula. Readers can proceed directly to the road trips or familiarize themselves with the state's treasure trove of fascinating features before embarking. Either way, an informative and fun odyssey awaits the passionate naturalist, amateur or otherwise.
Oddball Michigan: A Guide to 450 Really Strange Places
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There's more to Michigan than beautiful forests, shuttered factories, and miles and miles of stunning shoreline. Armed with this offbeat travel guide, you'll soon discover the strange underbelly of the Great Lakes State. Michigan has monuments to fluoridation, snurfing, the designer of the Jefferson nickel, and the once-famous Mr. Chicken, as well as festivals honoring tulips, Christmas pickles, and a 38-acre fungus. It's where you'll find the World's Largest Lugnut, the Nun Doll Museum, Joe's Gizzard City, the Teenie-Weenie Pickle Barrel Cottage, Howdy Doody, and Thomas Edison's last breath. The state also has its share of weird history--it's where Harry Houdini perished on Halloween night in 1926, where skater Tanya Harding's posse whacked Nancy Kerrigan, and where the Kellogg brothers invented popular breakfast cereals and less-popular yogurt enemas. Along with humorous histories and witty observations, Oddball Michigan provides addresses, websites, hours, fees, and driving directions for each of its 450 entries.
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Around the Shores of Lake Michigan: A Guide to Historic Sites
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This superbly organized guide to the 1,600-mile shoreline of Lake Michigan describes 182 historical sites and points of interest. Generously illustrated, it includes historical sketches, keys to recreation, and a large fold-out planner map.
Great Lakes Getaways
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-- Useful information on lodging, restaurants, shopping, museums, golf courses, and parks. -- 112 full-color photos; 20-full color illustrations. -- Helpful contact information, including telephone numbers for tourism offices.
Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure
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The Great Lakes Basin is the largest surface freshwater system on Earth. The more than 30,000 islands dotted throughout the basin provide some of the best ways to enjoy the Great Lakes. While the vast majority of these islands can only be reached by private boat or plane, a surprising number of islands--each with its own character and often harboring more than a bit of intrigue in its history--can be reached by merely taking a ferry ride, or crossing a bridge, offering everyone the chance to experience a variety of island adventures. Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries and Bridges to Adventure explores in depth over 30 of the Great Lakes Basin islands accessible by bridge or ferry and introduces more than 50 additional islands. Thirty-eight chapters include helpful information about getting to each featured island, what to expect when you get there, the island's history, and what natural and historical sites and cultural attractions are available to visitors. Each chapter lists special island events, where to get more island information, and how readers can help support the island. Author Maureen Dunphy made numerous trips to a total of 135 islands that are accessible by ferry or bridge in the Great Lakes Basin. On each trip, Dunphy was accompanied by a different friend or relative who provided her another adventurer's perspective through which to view the island experience. Great Lakes Island Escapes covers islands on both sides of the international border between the United States and Canada and features islands in both the lakes and the waterways that connect them. Anyone interested in island travel or learning more about the Great Lakes will delight in this comprehensive collection.
Lost Towns of Eastern Michigan
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Many of eastern Michigan's old boomtowns and sleepy villages are faded memories. Nature reclaimed the ruins of some while progress paved over the rest. Discover the stories of lost communities hidden in plain sight or just off the beaten track. The vanished religious colony of Ora Labora fell into a state of near-constant inebriation when beer became the only safe liquid to drink. Lake St. Clair swallowed up the unique currency of Belividere along with the place that issued it. Abandoned towns still crumble within Detroit's city limits. Alan Naldrett delves into the fascinating history of eastern Michigan's lost settlements.
Michigan's Capital Cities
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A collection of writings and photographs of "capital cities" across Michigan, such as the "Bean Capital"[the Thumb Area], the "Office Furniture Capital"[Grand Rapids], and more.
Michigan's Town and Country Inns
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The fifth edition of Michigan's Town & Country Inns is a guide to more than 50 inns, bed-and-breakfast homes, and historic lodgings in the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan. Choose from lighthouses anchored to the rugged shores of Lake Superior, Victorian mansions built by lumber and mining barons, rustic log lodges, and romantic small town hideaways. Meet the innkeepers themselves, who range from retired military officers and corporate heads to artists and poets. You'll find detailed descriptions of the accommodations along with information about rates, suitability for children, and policies on smoking and pets. Get a sense of the flavor and mood of each and learn about fun things to do in the surrounding areas. Numerous photos enhance the descriptions and provide a visitor's-eye view of some of the most unusual and delightful places to stay in Michigan.
Michigan - Off the Beaten Path : A Guide to Unique Places
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This guide points out the half-hidden gems that travelers rejoice in discovering--from a lighthouse that has become a country inn to party-fishing boats that let novice anglers stalk and catch the Great Lakes' tastiest offering--the yellow perch.
Traveling Michigan's Thumb: Exploring a Shoreline of Small Pleasures and Unexpected Treasures
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Michigan's Thumb remains its undiscovered jewel. Leave behind the four and six lane highways, the deadlines, the pressures of everyday life and prepare to relax. With the majestic Lake Huron Shoreline as your map and this insider's guide showing you where to stop along the way, you are in for a day, a weekend, or a summer's worth of enjoyment.
