It's time to get off the crowded expressway and throw the GPS out the window. get out and explore Michigan's back roads, towns and trails.
A guy, a camera, and a Jeep, and sometimes a black lab named Cooper
I drove through the southern Michigan town of Colon and it was hard to miss the enormous brick building with LAMB KNIT GOODS CO. painted across the front above the door. The building was built in 1863 as the Colon Seminary for educating and training teachers. In the 1890s it was converted into the Lamb
If you take M-123 to Tahquamenon Falls a few miles from I-75 is where the town of Allenville is or at least was. About all that remains is an old general store that stands on Brevort Lake Rd. I have found two different origins for the name of the town. One says it was named
In a field located in the town of White Rock is a two-room brick schoolhouse. It is the third schoolhouse in the town located in the Thumb along the Lake Huron shoreline. The first one was built after the great fire of 1871. It burned down in the great fire of 1881. The second schoolhouse
The light at the end of the break wall in Alpena was constructed in 1914. It was built out of steel replacing two previous lights that were made from wood and deteriorated in northern Michigan’s harsh climate. It is not really a true lighthouse like other ones in Michigan. It is more a beacon and
This old caboose sits forgotten and decaying near the entrance to Ludington State Park. I passed by it frequently when camping at the park and I often wonder what its story is. With its faded yellow paint almost gone and bare wood showing it looks as if it has been sitting there for a long
This big green house with a round turret on the corner proudly stands in Dowagiac Thankfully a Michigan Historical Marker stands next to it giving a little bit of history about the home and the people who lived in it. Businessman and farmer Charles M. Criffield (1867-1929) and his wife, Cora, (1865-1945) built this Queen-Anne
I saw this old house somewhere near Hessel. I don’t know its story and unfortunately, walls don’t talk, but I am sure it could tell a good tale if they could speak. Since I don’t have a story to go with this house I figure this is a good time RT o let you know
This old stone depot is in Standish along US-23. It has been a while since trains have stopped at the old depot. It is now a visitor center for tourists and travelers. Next to the depot are old historic railroad cars that visitors can walk around and look at. If you are heading up the
Getting off U.S. 23 and heading thru Ypsilanti, there is this natural flow of traffic that takes you past the world famous historic water tower then loops around down by the river near Depot Town and past the old Fire Station and EMU, and on the loop near the river is this grand old second
I was traveling from the Two Hearted River over to Crisp Point Lighthouse along the roads in the Upper Peninsula. When I say roads I mean rough seasonal dirt roads that are used as snowmobile trails for half of the year. I had been traveling quite a bit and I looked at my gas gauge
