Grand Hotel Stables — Local services in Mackinac Island

We stopped and walked through here as part of our carriage ride. It's a nice little carriage museum, as well as stables with a few of the island's horses. There was someone in the stable area answering questions, and the carriage area had signs with information on each carriage and related history.

They also had the VIP carriage for the Grand Hotel out while we were there, though we didn't see the Hackneys until the carriage passed us in town later in the day.

There's also bathrooms there, though there's restrooms up in the giftshop area of the carriage tour...

The old Grand Hotel Stables was where I would dump my load of Horse Manure. The public could get right up to the horses who would sometimes bite. You can't get as close to the horses now, which is good. The carriages in this showroom were well-maintained through the years because they were used regularly. Except the rarer ones which were not so much used as kept. When this barn was built many carriages came out of mothballs. Bathrooms and a drinking fountain in this clean and no...

This was a very cool excursion. It started with a short hike up the hill, going up the main drive past the hotel entrance drive. About a quarter mile up there is a sign for the carriage barn. The main room is full of an antique carriage collection that rivals the one at Ford's Greenfield Village. Fabulous. Next to that is the stable with the amazing horses, and a n antique tack collection. Well worth the...