Mackinac State Historic Parks
Colonial Michilimackinac Opening Day
Colonial Michilimackinac Mackinaw CityStep into Michilimackinac 1775: Outpost on the Edge, as Colonial Michilimackinac opens for the 2025 season. For Mackinac State Historic Parks, this is also the beginning of the America250 Celebration! Treasures from the past come to life at this 18th-century fort and fur trading village, reconstructed based on historic maps and more than 60 years […]
Historic Mill Creek Opening Day
Historic Mill Creek Mackinaw CityIt's time to have an adventure as Historic Mill Creek opens for the 2025 season! Witness the power of the creek harnessed to cut timber into lumber at one of the oldest industrial sites on the Upper Great Lakes. Smell the sawdust as sawyers demonstrate the pit saw method of cutting lumber, then feel the […]
Mackinac Island State Park Visitor’s Center Opening Day
Mackinac Island State Park Visitor's Center 7165 Main Street, Mackinac Island, MI, United StatesThe best way to experience Mackinac Island is to know where to start. The Mackinac Island State Park Visitor's Center opens for the 2025 season on May 9. The Mackinac Island State Park Visitor’s Center is located on the shore at the foot of Fort Street across from Marquette Park. The Visitor’s Center is a […]
Milliken Nature Center Opening Day
Milliken Nature Center Arch Rock, Mackinac Island, MI, United StatesThe geological wonders of Mackinac, like Arch Rock, have awed visitors for hundreds of years. Learn about how they were formed as the Milliken Nature Center opens for the 2025 season! The Milliken Nature Center accents the natural beauty of Arch Rock. The exhibit inside, Arch Rock: Unsurpassed in Nature’s Beauty, celebrates what was known […]
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 […]
