Mackinac Island Pub Crawl
The pub crawl dates to the 19th century and was sometimes called a gin crawl or bar-hopping. It is the social act of a group of people drinking in a number of pubs in a single night. Mackinac Island Pub crawls are social gatherings for the everyone including locals, summer workers, team building for conference attendees, bachelorette parties, bachelor parties and tourists. These self guided pub crawls focus on the social aspect of meeting new friends and being introduced to new pubs that you may have otherwise missed on your visit. The tradition is to walk from pub to pub with designated tee shirts for the bartenders to sign to show they were there. A new trend in this social networking is where the pub crawlers have anyone they meet also sign their shirts, kind of like a myspace friends network with ink and cloth.

Pub crawl tees may be found at select Island shops, just swing in and buy one then take yourself and your friends to each pub listed on the back of your shirt. Don't forget to bring a Sharpie Marker for the autographs...and don't forget to eat something along the way.