by Holiday Inn - Grand Haven, Spring Lake | May 30, 2014 | Lighthouses
We spent an extra night in Green Bay to explore the cluster of lighthouses that line Door Peninsula in Wisconsin. New to the territory, and unsure of how easily the lighthouses would be to spot we hit the road knowing it was bound to be a long day. Our trip...
by Holiday Inn - Grand Haven, Spring Lake | May 2, 2014 | Lighthouses
Day three of our lighthouse tour took us from Milwaukee to Green Bay through small fishing towns and on some serious hikes for a glimpse at the Wisconsin lighthouses! We started our day saying goodbye to Milwaukee in the best way – at the Milwaukee Pierhead...
by Holiday Inn - Grand Haven, Spring Lake | Apr 9, 2014 | Lighthouses, Miscellaneous
Day two of our Lighthouse Tour kick started in the big city of Chicago! Staying at the Crowne Plaza in Downtown (one of our IHG property affiliates), we had a check out of noon meaning a quick workout and a delicious breakfast in their onsite restaurant, Dine. After...
by Holiday Inn - Grand Haven, Spring Lake | Apr 1, 2014 | Lighthouses
The New Buffalo Light was an interesting find as it’s not a traditional lighthouse used for harbor navigation, but rather used as a recognizable landmark adding beauty to the beachfront. The actual New Buffalo lighthouse was controversial and didn’t serve much of a...
by Holiday Inn - Grand Haven, Spring Lake | Mar 31, 2014 | Lighthouses
Learning from our last tour, we found traveling by coordinates to be best…however, one digit off and it landed us nowhere near the Kalamazoo River Light in Saugatuck…so we’ll have to save that trip for a better day. Hailing from Grand Haven, we can’t...
by Holiday Inn - Grand Haven, Spring Lake | Mar 30, 2014 | Lighthouses
Well, six lighthouses down and two hundred miles later we’ve completed day one of our “spring” Lighthouse Tour, traveling from Grand Haven, Michigan south through Michigan City, Indiana and over to Chicago,Illinois. The tour will continue over...
