

What’s new for ’22?
As the calendar flips to the new year, Mackinac State Historic Parks staff are busy readying new tours, exhibits, publications, and more.


As the calendar flips to the new year, Mackinac State Historic Parks staff are busy readying new tours, exhibits, publications, and more.


The holiday traditions of the 17th and 18th centuries are alive at A Colonial Christmas at Colonial Michilimackinac.


With winter settling in on the Straits of Mackinac, you may wonder: what did the historic residents of Michilimackinac do when they got cold?


She lived her, too. Marie Constance Chevalier was one of the few people who made Michilimackinac their permanent home in the early years of Michilimackinac’s history.


On an island known for awe-inspiring natural wonders, Arch Rock is certainly Mackinac’s most iconic.


When you visit Colonial Michilimackinac in 2022, if you look in the right place you’ll see a newly reconstructed building.


As flowering plants bear fruit in early Autumn, many species of wild berries ripen, each containing seeds to perpetuate a new generation of plants.


One of the main questions visitors have when they visit Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse: what’s in the basement? Find out here.


It was 110 years ago that the Chief Wawatam was side launched, and it remained active on the Straits of Mackinac until 1984.