Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Ranger Station — Attraction in Glen Arbor Township

Sleeping Bear Dunes’ Glen Haven, Michigan, offers visitors a rare chance to walk through the layers of Great Lakes maritime and pioneer history. Founded as Sleeping Bearville in 1857, this lakeshore settlement emerged when C.C. McCarty built a sawmill and inn to fuel the booming steamship industry with cordwood. By the late 1800s, Glen Haven’s dock bustled as a key refueling point for steamers crossing Lake Michigan, making it the best-preserved cord wood station on the lake’s eastern shore. As shipping waned, Glen Haven adapted—diving into farming, fruit canning, and, eventually, welcoming tourists with its unique “Dunesmobiles” rides across the sandy bluffs in the 1920s and beyond. Today, the historic village remains carefully preserved: visitors can explore the general store, cannery, blacksmith shop, and the U.S. Life-Saving Service station, gaining a tangible sense of life as it once unfolded on Michigan’s...

Most beautiful view in America. Stunning sunsets that besides here – only exist in dreams. Lighthouses and piers meant for an explorers heart. Crystal clear turquoise-colored fresh water. No sharks or jelly fish. Sweet clean air. Blue sky's with fluffy white clouds you could gaze upon for days. Fall colors are more vivid a watercolor painting. I could go on forever about the magic of this place. The center of...

You tourists won't know this but the national park stole the homes of dozens and dozens of families to build this park. For them to steal something like the bed n breakfast from MR. D.H. Day only to turn around and Sell it to some developers to make it a for-profit tourist trap is unreal. They stole my home June 3rd 2021. I was one of the last ones standing. Can't fight people with...