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Mackinac Island offers a variety of outdoor dining options with unique settings, from waterfront cafes to garden patios.

Outdoor dining on Mackinac Island: Fresh air is on the menu, too!

Over the past year, many people have rekindled their love for the outdoors. They’ve explored trails, taken the back road, and found themselves outside more than ever. This goes for dining too. Outdoor dining has surged lately as more folks are opting for all things outdoors. On Michigan’s Mackinac Island, restaurants are taking precautions to …

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Seabiscuit Café is part of Mackinac Island’s diverse dining scene with unique restaurants and bars full of character.

Welcome back! 4 Mackinac Island businesses re-opening this year

Mackinac Island safely welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors in 2020 during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. They experienced ferry boat rides from the mainland and enjoyed horse-drawn carriage rides. They savored delicious Mackinac Island food, soaked up beautiful summer weather and watched incredible sunsets beyond the Mackinac Bridge. Yet, for all the ways …

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Mackinac Island is home to many art galleries and shops as well as permanent sculptures and the Mackinac Art Museum.

Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau contest winner part of Mackinac Island’s artistic legacy

There are no vineyards on Mackinac Island like the one Maeve Croghan painted to win the Georges Duboeuf 2020 Beaujolais Nouveau Artist Label Contest. But the artistry she exhibited in her winning work has been cultivated for decades in the lovely environs of the northern Michigan vacation destination. For the past 25 years, Croghan and …

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Grand Sundae in Dog Dish at Sadie’s Ice Cream Parlor on Mackinac Island

Remembering Sadie, inspiration for Mackinac Island’s ‘Super Bowl’

The Super Bowl is coming up. It’s the most popular sporting event in the country. Yet, the unofficial national holiday tends to pass quietly on Mackinac Island. For one, outside of snowmobiles whizzing this way and that, there’s not a lot of winter traffic here. Plus, there are no football teams on Mackinac Island. Not …

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