Manistee County Self-Guided Tour Series

by Manistee VB | February 10, 2016 | Boating & Harbors, Outdoors, Seasons | 0 Comments

Arcadia Lake is a 100-acre, natural beauty gem and Grebe Park, both family- and pet-friendly, offers access to all. Through the park’s association with Manistee County’s Explore the Shores Program, construction of a special fishing platform and launch site...

by Kathryn Kenny | August 1, 2018 | Fall, Historic Tours, Local History, Spring, Summer, Tours, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Written by: Andrew Allen Growing up in Manistee County somehow the S.S. City of Milwaukee always seemed to hide right in plain sight. I’d drive past the massive (347 foot passenger/railroad car) ferry without really giving it much thought. Finally, sometime in high...

by Andrew Allen | May 11, 2018 | Entertainment & Culture, Featured, First Time Visitors, Free Tours, Historic Tours, Local History, Media Relations, Self Guided Tours, Tours, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Hollywood actor Toni Trucks dedicates the Manistee Historic Sites Tours.

by Mark Fedder | February 1, 2016 | Local History | 0 Comments

When examining a grain of salt or a grain of sand, it is difficult using the naked eye to gauge which one is actually bigger than the other. In terms of Manistee's industrial past, both mineral and sediment have played reasonably equal roles throughout the...

by Manistee VB | January 14, 2016 | Fall, Fishing & Hunting, Outdoors | 0 Comments

Salmon fever erupted in Lake Michigan in the late 1960’s. Actually, erupted is an understatement: How about EXPLODED! For many years prior, Lake Michigan fishing was mostly fishing… not so much catching. The lamprey had devastated the lake trout. There...

by Maralee Cook | April 10, 2016 | Adventure Sports, Conversations, Summer | 1 Comment

Drag racing, off-roading, shooting and archery ranges, bicycle cruises, mountain and fat biking, hunting, snowmobiling, skiing and snowboarding: The opportunities for testing the abilities and endurance of humans and machines year-round are endless in...

by Manistee VB | February 2, 2016 | Entertainment & Culture, First Time Visitors, Historic Tours, Local History, Self Guided Tours | 0 Comments

Built in 1938, in the then popular Art Deco Style, the Vogue was part of a large Midwestern chain owned by the Butterfield Theaters. The 935 seat theater continued to operate as a single screen until Butterfield Theaters sold it in 1985 and it was changed...

by Maralee Cook | March 22, 2017 | Boating & Harbors, Fishing & Hunting, Outdoors, Seasons, Spring, Summer | 0 Comments

There’s fresh water, water, everywhere and even some to drink in Manistee County’s North Coast Region (with a wink and apologies to Samuel Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”). We invite you to immerse yourself in the laid-back lake life in our...

by Manistee VB | April 10, 2016 | Events, Fishing & Hunting, Spring | 2 Comments

The piers at the mouth of the Manistee River are most often used for watching spectacular sunsets over Lake Michigan.  But on one weekend in May in Manistee, at dawn and again at noon, there are spectacular sights of a different variety to be witnessed. In...