Butterflies
Mackinac Island is home to two beautiful butterfly exhibits. Downtown, there is the
Mackinac Island Butterfly House and at Surrey Hills there is the
Wings of Mackinac Butterfly Conservatory. Enjoy butterflies from around the world as they metamorphosis right before your eyes. A great learning environment for all, the butterflies really are at the helm of keeping our gardens pretty and our environment in check. Both are open May through October and we recommend you visit both as they both have stunning tropical gardens and hundreds of colorful butterflies flittering about.
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Mackinac Island Butterfly House.
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Wings of Mackinac Butterfly Conservatory.
Downtown Historic Buildings
Mackinac State Historic Park's 1820's fur trade comes to life in the Mackinac State Historic Parks downtown historic buildings on Market, Mission and Huron streets. Watch hearth cooking and crafts at Biddle House (home to Agatha Biddle, Chippewa Chief), see live blacksmith demonstrations at the
Benjamin Blacksmith Shop, visit the American Fur Company and of course no trip is complete without stepping inside Mission Church where fire and brimstone preacher Rev. William Ferry delivered his followers from darkness. Open June through September.
Fort Mackinac
Michigan's only Revolutionary War era fort. We are proud to say she has retired from duty and now offers 1880's reenactments for today's visitors.
Mackinac State Historic Parks provides fourteen original buildings, canon salutes fired over the harbor, military music, informative films and Mackinac's history that helped to create the American dream. Don't forget to enjoy lunch or dinner at the Tea Room-a Grand Hotel restaurant overlooking the straits. Open May through mid October.
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Fort Mackinac.
Golf
Mackinac Island is home to three
great golf courses and one executive putting course. Grand Hotel has the Jewel which includes the Grand Nine adjacent to the hotel and the Woods Nine, about a mile from the hotel. Grand provides horse drawn transportation between the two courses. Wawashkamo is Michigan's oldest course and is a rough terrain Scottish Links course. Mission Point offers excellent opportunities to get your putting in order at The Greens, an 18 hole executive putting course overlooking the straits.
Haunted Theatre
Mackinac Island's scariest fun family attraction is the
Haunted Theatre, a haunted house and wax monster display. Not recommended for very small children but a blast for everyone else. Free babysitting for the weeuns while the rest of the family visits the dark interior meeting Mackinac's legendary Manitou and the Phantom of the Opera performing his requiem for all. Open everyday of the season, May through October. Located in the heart of downtown.
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Haunted Theatre.
Haunts of Mackinac
Ghostly happenings on the Island? Some say...indeed.
Adventure into the unknown.
Haunted History Tours is based on the success of the bestselling book Haunts of Mackinac. The tour includes some of the stories
found in the pages of the book, but adds numerous additional tales and history from locations throughout the downtown area.
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Let's go fly a kite
Great Turtle Toys and Caddywampus offer kite flying demonstrations daily at Windermere Point and or Mission Point. Stop by one the shops for daily locations. Its a wonderfully fun thing to do on the breezy straits of Mackinac. Mary Poppins had it right...
