Golf, lakes, trails, and fall colors — your guide to the best of northern Michigan, from the heart of Granny's country.
Right down the road from Granny's Hideaway sits one of northern Michigan's best-kept secrets — a community resort with championship golf, wooded trails, and that classic Up North feeling most travelers never find.
Read More →Just 25 miles from Granny's Hideaway, the Jordan River Valley is one of the most stunning and overlooked natural areas in the Lower Peninsula — a place of deep forest, cold trout water, wild elk, and views that stop you in your tracks.
Read More →About 20 minutes from Granny's Hideaway sits one of northern Michigan's most unusual destinations — a ghost town swallowed by the forest, a prime fly fishing river, and 4,700 acres of wild public land most visitors never find.
Read More →Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start of northern Michigan's summer season — and if you haven't been up here for it yet, you're missing something special. Here's how to spend it right.
Read More →Before Granny's Hideaway was a rental, it was just Grandma Viola's place — a little chalet she built in the woods of Mancelona in the early 1970s, where summers smelled like pine and percolated coffee. Here's the story.
Read More →The ice is off the lakes, the trout streams are running cold and clear, and northern Michigan is waking up. Spring is one of the best-kept secrets for fishing in Antrim County — here's where to go and what to expect.
Read More →Gaylord, Michigan isn't just a small town in the north — it's the self-proclaimed Golf Mecca of the Midwest, and it absolutely earns that title. With over 20 championship courses within a short drive, it's one of the most golf-dense destinations in the entire country.
Read More →There's a lake in northern Michigan that regularly gets compared to the Caribbean. Not because anyone's exaggerating — it's because the water actually turns that impossible shade of turquoise blue that you'd expect to find in the Bahamas, not the Midwest. That lake is Torch Lake, and it's one of Michigan's most spectacular natural treasures.
Read More →One of the best things about staying near the Lakes of the North community in northern Michigan is that you don't have to drive far to find incredible trail systems. For ORV riders and snowmobilers, this area is as good as it gets in the Lower Peninsula — with hundreds of miles of maintained trails practically right out the door.
Read More →Yes, Gaylord is the Golf Mecca of the Midwest. But if golf isn't your thing — or you're bringing along people who'd rather explore than putt — northern Michigan has an incredible range of activities for every season and every type of traveler.
Read More →Michigan's Upper Peninsula gets most of the fall color attention, but the northern Lower Peninsula puts on a show that rivals anything in New England. The combination of hardwood forests, dramatic lake shorelines, and winding river valleys creates a foliage experience unlike anywhere else in the Midwest.
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