Benjamin Blacksmith Shop Opening Day
Benjamin Blacksmith Shop 7406 Market Street, Mackinac Island, MI, United StatesSee Mackinac at Work as the Benjamin Blacksmith Shop opens for the 2025 season! Originally built in the 1880s, Robert Benjamin and later his son, Herbert, ran a blacksmith shop into the 1960s. The contents of the shop were moved to the reconstructed building in 1970. The Benjamin’s fixed carriage wheels and shoed horses in […]
Biddle House, featuring the Mackinac Island Native American Museum, Opening Day
Biddle House Mackinac IslandExplore A Time of Change as the Biddle House, featuring the Mackinac Island Native American Museum, opens for the 2025 season! Step into the home of Agatha and Edward Biddle, merchants who moved in around 1830. This was a time of change, and the 1830s were critical to the Biddles for another reason: as an […]
The Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum Opening Day
The Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum Mackinac IslandBe Inspired as The Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum opens for the 2025 season! Nowhere else does such a rare and exceptional collection of Mackinac-related art and photography come together to tell Mackinac’s story. In complement to the natural beauty of Mackinac Island, The Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum allows visitors […]
Fort2Fort Five Mile Challenge
Mackinac Island State Park Mackinac IslandmackTO REGISTER: runmackinac.com The sixth annual Fort2Fort Five Mile Challenge will start at Fort Mackinac at 9:00 a.m. and passes all of the historic and natural wonders Mackinac Island State Park has to offer! This challenging but fun course starts runners inside iconic Fort Mackinac then passes by Arch Rock, the Mackinac Island Service Camp […]
Residents Appreciation Day
Mackinac State Historic ParksFor residents of Mackinac, Cheboygan, or Emmet counties, for one weekend, we discount the admission prices for all of our sites to what they were when we first began operating our modern museum programs for the public in 1958. (.50 cents adults, .25 cents children). Thank you for supporting Mackinac State Historic Parks! This special […]
Residents Appreciation Day
Mackinac State Historic ParksFor residents of Mackinac, Cheboygan, or Emmet counties, for one weekend, we discount the admission prices for all of our sites to what they were when we first began operating our modern museum programs for the public in 1958. (.50 cents adults, .25 cents children). Thank you for supporting Mackinac State Historic Parks! This special […]
