Kathleen Ferris

Peak season can make a Michigan island feel like it changed costumes overnight. The same quiet docks, beaches,…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 27

A donut stop gets a lot more memorable when the backstory is almost as good as the pastries.…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 27

Michigan book hunting has a way of turning a quick stop into an entire afternoon. Across the state,…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 27

The best road-trip cafés have a way of making you feel like you found something before everyone else…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 27

A quiet beach day feels almost impossible to find once Michigan summer hits full speed, but this Ottawa…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 27

Golden hour in Michigan has a habit of turning ordinary places into full-on scenes. One evening, the lake…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 26

The kind of café people recommend with confidence usually has nothing to prove. In the quiet downtown of…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 26

An indoor waterpark getaway gets a lot more tempting when everything families need is built into one easy…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 26

Most ice cream shops can tell you their flavors. This one can practically point to the cows. On…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 26

The best barbecue joints rarely need to announce themselves too loudly. Along Ford Road in Dearborn Heights, Michigan,…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 26

A great candy store has a way of making adults forget they were ever trying to act reasonable.…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 26

Most people drive through Munising, Michigan, thinking the real show is out on Lake Superior or along the…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 26

Michigan pizza has plenty of personality, but these restaurants lean into the Italian side of the craft with…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 26

Railroad history has a different kind of pull when you can stand beside the equipment that once helped…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 25

Some days call for a little frosting therapy, and Michigan bakeries know exactly how to answer. Across the…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 25

An outdoor park gets a lot more interesting when it refuses to pick just one season. In Lansing,…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 25

The best small-town cafés do not need flash when the food is doing the talking. Along River Street…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 25

A summer field gets a lot more memorable when it keeps pulling you farther down the rows. In…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 25

Summer has a way of turning Michigan’s most famous resorts into places everyone seems to discover at once.…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 25

A beach day feels a lot more dramatic when a 240-foot wall of sand is waiting behind the…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 25

Most ghost towns feel like scattered ruins and imagination doing half the work, but this Upper Peninsula site…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 25

Drive far enough north in Michigan and the roads start to feel like they belong to the wilderness…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 24

A great local theater does not need a massive marquee to make an audience feel something. In the…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 24

A Michigan supper club has a certain magic, no matter the season, when the windows glow, the booths…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 24

A town does not have to be big to feel like it has its own gravitational pull. In…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 24

The Mackinac Bridge does not need much help looking dramatic, but sunset turns it into something else entirely.…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 24

Not every ice cream order is meant to be reasonable, and this Flint favorite proves that in the…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 24

Ask Michigan locals where they would actually send hungry friends, and places like these tend to come up…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 24

A former jailhouse is not where most people expect to find one of Bay City’s most polished dinners,…

By Kathleen Ferris · Jul 24