Favorite Great Lake & Vacation Spot

GreatLakes · 02-03-2007

What's your favorite great lake? Also, is there a favorite place you vacation on one of the lakes. Ours is Lake Michigan. We love to visit Grand Haven, and Traverse City. Great beaches. I can't leave out Macinaw Island on Lake Huron. The kids love that place.

Brent & Kim · 02-03-2007

Sailed the North Channel of Lake Huron for a summer. Left from Little Current Ontario. Beautiful area. Of course I love the Lakeshore ifrom Chicago to Milwaukee.

**tommy** · 02-03-2007

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Originally Posted by GreatLakes

What's your favorite great lake? Also, is there a favorite place you vacation on one of the lakes. Ours is Lake Michigan. We love to visit Grand Haven, and Traverse City. Great beaches. I can't leave out Macinaw Island on Lake Huron. The kids love that place.

I like Traverse City in the summer although I have never vacationed there..I prefer the Rivers in Texas!!

playabum17 · 02-03-2007

I've only been in Chicago, I live in Minnesota, but on the other side of the state so haven't been exposed to much.

Jacko · 02-03-2007

I love the Traverse City area and Lake Superior in the U.P.

Barb&Meg · 02-03-2007

I've only been to Superior and Michigan. Since I'm from Chicago, I have to say it's Lake Michigan, especially looking back at the sky line from out on the lake and also Lake Michigan up at Algoma and Door County!

lolabella · 02-03-2007

I have two favorites!! Looking out to Lake Michigan from the W hotel in Chicago. I had the pleasure of staying there a few years back and just happened to look out the window just as the fireworks went off at Navy Pier. Soooo cool!!

But, I also fondly remember a family trip we took from out cabin in Hayward to the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. Simply breathtaking!!

playabum17 · 02-03-2007

I was there one year when they did a fireworks show off of Navy Pier, it was awesome...one of the best fireworks shows I've seen.

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I have two favorites!! Looking out to Lake Michigan from the W hotel in Chicago. I had the pleasure of staying there a few years back and just happened to look out the window just as the fireworks went off at Navy Pier. Soooo cool!!

But, I also fondly remember a family trip we took from out cabin in Hayward to the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. Simply breathtaking!!

Doggiemom · 02-03-2007

Hung out at Oak Street Beach in downtown Chicago when I was in high school!

smyles · 02-04-2007

I love Cedar Point Amusement Park on the shores of Lake Erie. Home of the best roller coaster on the planet - Millennium Force.

cuffedlinks · 02-04-2007

Too young and oblivious to remember much about our Lake Michigan Indiana/Illinois days.....

But I CAN tell you that the Duluth area of Lake Superior is gorgeous.

nworowley · 02-04-2007

Lake Superior - I can see the Nipigon Bay marina from my dining room! Also, Lake Huron has some amazing beaches.

kaki321 · 02-04-2007

We like to head over to the "other" side of Lake Michigan for long weekends (we live in chicago now), the St. Josephs, Union Pier, New Buffalo area of Michigan. The sunsets are spectacular

Starfish · 02-04-2007

Love the North Shore of MN. Spent a week there last fall.
Duluth
Chicago
Kohler Andre State Park on Lake Michigan, is my (secret beach)

Apostle Islands, spent part of our honeymoon on Madeline Island
Pictured Rocks State park
Lake shore drive, Milwaukee. Check out Pieces of Eight in the summer time.
Have a drink on their patio and watch the sail boats.
Any place in Door County

BarbC · 02-04-2007

My heart is on the shores of Lake Huron, Ontario's West Coast, specifically at Bayfield, the village where my ancestors settled and where we had a summer cottage for years and years. The beach is sandy, the sunsets fabulous. Unfortunately, there are now a lot of "shoppes" selling tacky or overpriced non-necessities these days, but the chestnut trees still frame Main Street (and now I know I'm allergic to them

).

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GreatLakes añejo Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Hockeytown, USA Posts: 1,501	Favorite Great Lake & Vacation Spot What's your favorite great lake? Also, is there a favorite place you vacation on one of the lakes. Ours is Lake Michigan. We love to visit Grand Haven, and Traverse City. Great beaches. I can't leave out Macinaw Island on Lake Huron. The kids love that place.

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Starfish reposado Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 1,009	Love the North Shore of MN. Spent a week there last fall. Duluth Chicago Kohler Andre State Park on Lake Michigan, is my (secret beach) Apostle Islands, spent part of our honeymoon on Madeline Island Pictured Rocks State park Lake shore drive, Milwaukee. Check out Pieces of Eight in the summer time. Have a drink on their patio and watch the sail boats. Any place in Door County Last edited by Starfish; 02-04-2007 at 11:55 AM.

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02-03-2007	#2 (permalink)
Brent & Kim añejo Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Rockford, IL Posts: 4,827	Sailed the North Channel of Lake Huron for a summer. Left from Little Current Ontario. Beautiful area. Of course I love the Lakeshore ifrom Chicago to Milwaukee.

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playabum17 naughtiest chica Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: My body may be in Minnesota, but my brain is in Playa! Posts: 15,578	I've only been in Chicago, I live in Minnesota, but on the other side of the state so haven't been exposed to much.

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Jacko añejo Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 18,357	I love the Traverse City area and Lake Superior in the U.P.

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Barb&Meg reposado Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Madison, Wisconsin Posts: 1,000	I've only been to Superior and Michigan. Since I'm from Chicago, I have to say it's Lake Michigan, especially looking back at the sky line from out on the lake and also Lake Michigan up at Algoma and Door County!

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lolabella Playa'd Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: One foot in WI, the other in PDC Posts: 4,892	I have two favorites!! Looking out to Lake Michigan from the W hotel in Chicago. I had the pleasure of staying there a few years back and just happened to look out the window just as the fireworks went off at Navy Pier. Soooo cool!! But, I also fondly remember a family trip we took from out cabin in Hayward to the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. Simply breathtaking!!

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Doggiemom añejo Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Humble, Texas Posts: 6,073	Hung out at Oak Street Beach in downtown Chicago when I was in high school!

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smyles way into it Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Sagamore Hills, OH (between Cleveland & Akron) Posts: 109	I love Cedar Point Amusement Park on the shores of Lake Erie. Home of the best roller coaster on the planet - Millennium Force.

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cuffedlinks añejo Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: The City of Presidents Posts: 16,003	Too young and oblivious to remember much about our Lake Michigan Indiana/Illinois days..... But I CAN tell you that the Duluth area of Lake Superior is gorgeous.

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nworowley way into it Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: at the top of Lake Superior Posts: 213	Lake Superior - I can see the Nipigon Bay marina from my dining room! Also, Lake Huron has some amazing beaches.

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kaki321 life=playa Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Chicago, Il Posts: 971	We like to head over to the "other" side of Lake Michigan for long weekends (we live in chicago now), the St. Josephs, Union Pier, New Buffalo area of Michigan. The sunsets are spectacular

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BarbC life=playa Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 814	My heart is on the shores of Lake Huron, Ontario's West Coast, specifically at Bayfield, the village where my ancestors settled and where we had a summer cottage for years and years. The beach is sandy, the sunsets fabulous. Unfortunately, there are now a lot of "shoppes" selling tacky or overpriced non-necessities these days, but the chestnut trees still frame Main Street (and now I know I'm allergic to them ).