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Eater named Traverse City one of the top 15 food destinations in the world this year. Midwest Living put it on the cover. Food & Wine has it in the Top 10 Small US Cities for food and drink. The James Beard Foundation has been quietly handing out finalist nods to Cooks' House for a…
Glen Arbor is one of those places that figured out something a long time ago and kept it that way. The town is essentially three intersecting streets surrounded by Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on three sides and Glen Lake on the fourth. The annual Art Fair takes over the whole downtown for a single…
The Old Mission Peninsula is a 17-mile finger of land that stretches north out of Traverse City, splitting Grand Traverse Bay into east and west halves. It's also one of two designated American Viticultural Areas (AVAs) in Michigan — the other is Leelanau Peninsula, just across the water — meaning the wine you taste here…
Flintfields Horse Park is one of the most prestigious show jumping venues in North America — and from June 3 through September 20, 2026, it hosts a circuit that draws Olympic-caliber riders, $150,000 horses, and the highest concentration of equestrian-world wealth between Wellington and Spruce Meadows. It's also a 25-minute drive from downtown Traverse City,…
Interlochen Center for the Arts is one of the great quiet successes in American arts education — a boarding school and summer arts camp set on 1,200 acres of pine forest between Green Lake and Duck Lake, about 25 minutes southwest of downtown Traverse City. Through its summer concert series, Interlochen brings a lineup that…
If Traverse City's Cherry Festival is the regional spectacle, Frankfort's 4th of July is its quieter, more grounded counterpart — the kind of small-town Independence Day that's gotten harder to find as towns have grown out of their own scale.Frankfort sits where the Betsie River meets Lake Michigan, about forty-five minutes south of Traverse City.…
The National Cherry Festival is the week Traverse City turns into the busiest place in northern Michigan — and the only week of the year you'll see a Blue Angels formation buzz the open water of Grand Traverse Bay. Running since 1925, it's the kind of event that locals will tell you to either lean…
