There’s a lot to be said for having less house and more life outside it. Especially when the house sits on one Traverse ...

Kelly and Matt Bulloch successfully restored Hull House, a historic 1894 Queen Anne Victorian in Traverse City, preserving ...

In Elk Rapids, The Dexter puts Michigan makers, custom design and regional craftmanship front and center. For years, Elk ...

Here are a few scenic ways to ditch the car and see Northern Michigan’s fall color from a different perspective.

Author Anne-Marie Oomen documents her personal struggle to rescue and nurture monarch butterfly pupae from parasites and ...

You can spend a perfectly good October day in Northern Michigan getting rained on in a fleece, eating an apple in your car ...

Four perfect trails we’d clear a Saturday for, plus where to linger afterward for lunch, cider, coffee or a sunset beer.

Oysters, conservas and a singing lobster: Inside Umbo, the Traverse City restaurant everyone has been waiting for. For months, Traverse City diners walked past paper-covered windows and wondered when ...

The freedom of a lock-and-leave lifestyle. In Northern Michigan, the good life has a rhythm all its own: long summer evenings on the water, dinner on the deck with friends, brilliant color tours, ...

Hotel Perry has been welcoming travelers to downtown Petoskey since 1899, and its newest owners aren’t interested in reinventing it. Jon and Lauren Cotton, whose family-owned Cotton Collection ...

Bring the whole crew to Big Bay’s fall festival for kid-friendly activities, food trucks, a craft show, live music and plenty more.

Along M-22, beach days tend to blur into smoked fish lunches, roadside cherry stops, sunset wine pours and sandwiches unwrapped on the hood of the car. From Onekama to Leland, Northport to Traverse ...