Going around Lake Michigan
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Lots of info and pictures here from my trip I just completed ->
https://www.hdforums.com/forum/road-...-michigan.html
We had a blast! Not sure what your intended path is, but I'd recommend visiting the Traverse City area and riding the tunnel of trees. In the UP, head up along the Lake Superior shoreline and ride H58 from Grand Marais to Munising.
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We had a blast! Not sure what your intended path is, but I'd recommend visiting the Traverse City area and riding the tunnel of trees. In the UP, head up along the Lake Superior shoreline and ride H58 from Grand Marais to Munising.
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Did this ride a couple of weeks ago. My suggestion, stay the HELL out of Chicago. 6 lanes of traffic, 75 MPH and the toll booths on I-294 in the extreme right lane. Kinda hard to get across the traffic to throw money at the toll booth. US 131 is a beautiful road, saw a south bound eagle flying over as we were north bount, darn near twisted my neck off trying to look back to watch it. Make your way to a little town east of Ludington off US 10 called Baldwin and check out Jones' Ice Cream Shop on the main drag. They make a killer coconut ice cream. Go north out of there to Petopsky and comb the beaches for some of their rocks. There are only 2 places in the world to find them and the other place is in Africa. From there north to M22, that road is a must. from there thru Traverse City backalong the coast to M119. It starts out as a wide 2 lane and ends up as a narrow 1 lane but it is worth the effort. Plan on getting to the north end of M119 sometime after 11:00AM and eat at Legs Inn. Now that's a dandy place to eat. From there it's a short hop to Mackinaw City and the bridge. They were working on the paved section when we crossed, so we had to ride the grates. Talk about a WHITE KNUCKLE experience. If you have the time, I would suggest that you travel to Munising and take one of the boat tours to see picture rocks. If you do this, you will have seen 3 of the Great Lakes. On your left is lake Michigan when you cross the bridge and on your right is Huron. You will see Superior at Munising. And if you're not familiar, there can be an extreme temperature swing when you cross the bridge and when you get near Superior. We saw temps range fron the high 80's while in Baldwin to 42, 30 MPH winds and rain while near Superior. Hope this helps.
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Yea, We are really thinking about the ferry now. It's something different that we haven't done, and from what I been checking out, we won't really miss out on much from not riding around the lake. A friend of mine wants to do an iron butt ride around Lake Mich. so that might be my chance to say I rode ALL the way around the lake!