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(CNN) — To all the locals who have been hoarding the following beaches, please forgive us. But c’mon, how can you really sleep at night, knowing you’re sending all those well-meaning tourists to the same old beaches with the same old towel-to-towel...

by S. A. McFerran Many school groups from Traverse City and Leelanau traveled to Innisfree, a camp for environmental education, on Pyramid Point within the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore.  The program operated year-round within sight of the Manitou...

PausePlayPlayPlayPrev|Next Michigan Lakeshore Ludington Harbor. Michigan Lakeshore “There are many superb views along 7-mile Pierce Stocking Drive in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, but my favorite is the Lake Michigan Overlook." Michigan...

The Great Lakes are the most magical bodies of water in North America (seriously, just take a look). The five lakes are the U.S.’s Third Coast, and if you grew up sandwiched between two corn- and cow-covered Midwestern states (like yours truly) you’d...

Those of us born and raised in the U.S. coastal states, myself included, suffer to varying degrees from a geographic myopia, one that blurs tremendous swaths of our nation into an indistinct mass called “flyover country.” We pay for this shortsightedness...