Michigan Vacation Rentals

Why not go on vacation to the great tourist destination of Michigan. It is super place to have a vacation. You can enjoy the great lakes for recreational purposes or the great culture and history of the state. Why not hire, or rent, or loan, or borrow a vacation accomodation in the area.

Bounded by four of the five Great Lakes, plus Lake Saint Clair, Michigan has the longest freshwater shoreline in the world. In 2005, Michigan ranked third for the number of registered recreational boats, behind California and Florida. A person in Michigan is never more than 85 miles from open Great Lakes water and is never more than six miles from a natural water source. The Great Lakes that border Michigan from east to west are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior.

Michigan has a humid continental climate, although there are two distinct regions. The southern and central parts of the Lower Peninsula (south of Saginaw Bay and from the Grand Rapids area southward) have a warmer climate (Koppen climate classification Dfa) with hot summers and cold winters. The northern part of Lower Peninsula and the entire Upper Peninsula has a more severe climate (Koppen Dfb), with warm, but shorter summers and longer, cold to very cold winters. Some parts of the state average high temperatures below freezing from December through February, and into early March in the far northern parts. During the winter through the middle of February the state is frequently subjected to heavy lake effect snow.

Destinations draw vacationers, hunters, and nature enthusiasts from across the United States and Canada. Michigan is fifty percent forest land, much of it quite remote. Both the forests and thousands of miles of beaches are top attractions. Tourists also flock to many of the museums, particularly those in Metro Detroit, including The Henry Ford, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Historical Museum, the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and the Arab American National Museum. The Metro Detroit area offers four major casinos, MGM Grand Detroit, Greektown, Motor City, and Caesars Windsor (formerly known as "Casino Windsor", in Windsor, Ontario, Canada); moreover, Detroit is the largest city to offer casino gambling.

Hunting is a major component of Michigan's economy. Michigan ranks first in the nation in licensed hunters (over one million) who contribute $2 billion annually to its economy. Over three-quarters of a million hunters participate in white-tailed deer season alone. Many school districts in rural areas of Michigan cancel school on the opening day of rifle season, because of attendance concerns.

Michigan's Department of Natural Resources manages the largest dedicated state forest system in the nation. The forest products industry and recreational users contribute $12 billion and 200,000 associated jobs annually to the state's economy. Michigan has more than 90 native species of trees, more than all of Europe combined.

Detroit, Grand Rapid, Warren, Sterling Heights, Flint, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Clinton Township, Livonia, Dearborn

Battle Creek ("Cereal City USA .", world headquarters of Kellogg Company)
Benton Harbor / St. Joseph (headquarters of Whirlpool Corporation)
East Lansing (home of Michigan State University)
Fremont (home of the Gerber Products Company)
Kalamazoo (home to Western Michigan University)
Manistee (home to the world's largest salt plant, owned by Morton Salt)
Marquette (largest city in the Upper Peninsula with 19,661 people)
Midland (headquarters of the Dow Chemical Company and the Dow Corning Corporation)
Muskegon (largest Michigan city on Lake Michigan)
Pontiac (major automobile manufacturing center, and home of the Pontiac Silverdome)
Port Huron (major international crossing and home of the Blue Water Bridge)
Mount Pleasant (home of Central Michigan University)
Sault Ste. Marie (home of the Soo Locks and Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge)
Saginaw (the largest of the Tri-Cities, which consist of Bay City, Midland and Saginaw)
Traverse City ("Cherry Capital of the World", making Michigan the country's largest producer of cherries)
Ypsilanti (home of Eastern Michigan University)

Upper Peninsula

Copper Country · Keweenaw Peninsula · Gogebic Range
Lower Peninsula

Central Michigan: Southern Michigan, Flint/Tri-Cities: The Thumb / The Greater Tri Cities, Michiana, Northern Michigan, Southeast Michigan / Metro Detroit, West Michigan

Michigan has nine international crossings with Ontario, Canada:

Ambassador Bridge, North America's busiest international border crossing.
Blue Water Bridge, a twin-span bridge (Port Huron, Michigan and Point Edward, Ontario, but the larger city of Sarnia, Ontario is usually referred to on the Canadian side.
Blue Water Ferry (Marine City, Michigan and Sombra, Ontario)
Canadian Pacific Railway tunnel.
Detroit-Windsor Truck Ferry (Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario)
Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.
International Bridge (Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario)
St.Clair River Railway Tunnel (Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario)
Walpole Island Ferry (Algonac, Michigan and Walpole Island First Nation, Ontario
A second international bridge is currently under development between Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario.

With its position in relation to the Great Lakes and the countless ships that have foundered over the many years in which they have been used as a transport route for people and bulk cargo, Michigan is a world-class SCUBA diving destination. The Michigan Underwater Preserves are 11 underwater areas where wrecks are protected for the benefit of sport divers.

The soil is of a varied composition and in large areas is very fertile, especially in the south. However, the Upper Peninsula for the most part is rocky and mountainous, and the soil is unsuitable for agriculture. The climate is tempered by the proximity of the lakes and is much milder than in other locales with the same latitude. The principal forest trees include basswood, maple, elm, sassafras, butternut, walnut, poplar, hickory, oak, willow, pine, birch, beech, hemlock, witchhazel, tamarack, cedar, locust, dogwood, and ash.

The state is home to one national park: Isle Royale National Park, located in Lake Superior, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Other national protected areas in the state include: Keweenaw National Historical Park, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Huron National Forest, Manistee National Forest, Hiawatha National Forest, Ottawa National Forest Fumee Lake Natural Area and Father Marquette National Memorial. The largest section of the North Country National Scenic Trail also passes through Michigan.

With 78 state parks, 19 state recreation areas, and 6 state forests, Michigan has the largest state park and state forest system of any state. These parks and forests include Holland State Park, Mackinac Island State Park, Au Sable State Forest, and Mackinaw State Forest.

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