Michigan Active and Adventure Vacations

Michigan Active and Adventure Travel Guide

• Michigan Overview
• Michigan Hotels
• Michigan Attractions
• Michigan Feature Articles
• Michigan Vacation Rentals

Other Guides for Michigan

Active and Adventure Guide
• Biking
• Hiking and Backpacking
• Paddling
• Skiing
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
  • Fishing

Top Active and Adventure Destinations In Michigan

• Huron-Manistee National Forests, MI
  
• Isle Royale National Park, MI
  
• Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, MI
  
• Porcupine Mountains State Park, MI
  
• Seney National Wildlife Refuge, MI
  

Travel Guides In Michigan

• Pere Marquette River, MI
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, MI
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide

Midwest Active and Adventure States/Provinces

• Indiana
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Wisconsin

Active and Adventure Travel Destinations

• Mid-Atlantic
  • Maryland
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia
• Midwest
  • Indiana
  • Michigan
  • Minnesota
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin
• Mountain West
  • Colorado
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • Utah
  • Wyoming
• Northeast
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts
  • New Hampshire
  • New York
  • Vermont
• Pacific Coast
  • Alaska
  • California
  • Hawaii
  • Oregon
  • Washington
• Southeast
  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Florida
  • Georgia
  • Kentucky
  • Louisiana
  • Mississippi
  • North Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia
• Southwest
  • Arizona
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Texas

Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan (courtesy, National Park Service)

Top Michigan Active and Adventure Destinations

• Huron-Manistee National Forests
• Isle Royale National Park
• Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
• Porcupine Mountains State Park
• Seney National Wildlife Refuge

Feature Articles

• The Adventure Advisor
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  Family vacation tips from Outside Online's travel expert
• GORP - Top 10 Lonely Parks
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• Best Trips of 2001: Island Escapes
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  Island Escapes
• June Active/Adventure Travel Guide
  
• January Parks Guide
  

Trip Ideas

• Best Sand Playground: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Seashore (Michigan)
  America's Best Beaches

Practical Advice

• A Mountain Climbing Primer
  
• A Whitewater Rafting Primer
  
• A Sea Kayaking Primer
  
• A Trekking Primer
  
• Be the Sag Wagon
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  How to pull off a bike tour on your own two wheels.

GORPTravel Trips

• 
  Lake Michigan Hike & Bike
  Sierra Club Outings
  from $1345, 7 days
  The beauty of the Lake Michigan shoreline reaches its most dramatic point on the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula. This area...
  
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  Michigan's Leelanau & Mackinac Explorer
  Timberline Adventures
  from $2195, 7 days
  The beautiful rolling hills and windswept dunes of Leelanau, the expansive wooded shoreline of Torch Lake, miles and miles of magnificent beaches...
  

Gear

• Complete Gear Archives: Day-Hiking, Backpacking, and Trekking
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things hiking.
• Complete Gear Archives: Paddling
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things paddling.
• Complete Gear Archives: Cycling
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things related to cycling.
• Complete Gear Archives: Climbing
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things climbing.
• How I Came to Know and Love the Backcountry
  The Basics of Telemark Skiing

Fitness

• Mountain Athlete
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  Jackson, Wyoming
• Chalk It Up
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  Experience is the key to mountaineering prowess, but high-altitude fitness makes all the difference on summit day
• Blitzing the Backcountry
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  Turn your winter fitness routine into a brand-new adventure
• The Rowbike
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  Video
• Saddle Up
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  Spring is here. Time to wipe the cobwebs off your bike, oil your chain, and kick your fitness into a new gear. Here's how.

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Super 8 Motel - Munising Wetmore Area
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Best Western Splash Park Inn
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