Michigan Top Things To See
• Spend a day at the Cultural Center featuring the Detroit Historical Museum (website: www.detroithistorical.org), the Detroit Institute of Arts (the fifth-largest art museum in the USA) and the Charles H Wright Museum of African-American History (website: www.maah-detroit.org), the largest museum of its kind.
Drive through the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, the birthplace of Henry Ford and the automobile. Visit the Henry Ford Museum (website: www.hfmgv.org) and Greenfield Village, and step back through 300 years of history.
Tour the Automotive Hall of Fame (website: www.automotivehalloffame.org), Spirit of Ford and Henry Ford's Fair Lane Estate (website: www.henryfordestate.org) in Dearborn. Or tour the General Motors plant in Lansing and watch cars come off the assembly line.
Escape to Mackinac Island (website: www.mackinacisland.org), a well-known summer resort. Cars are not allowed and visitors must walk, cycle or use horse-drawn carriages. Visit the impressive Grand Hotel (website: www.grandhotel.com) and Fort Mackinac (website: www.mackinacparks.com), a restored 18th-century military outpost.
Backpack the Isle Royale National Park (website: www.nps.gov/isro), a wild, rocky wilderness island in the northern reaches of Lake Superior.
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