Dan from Maine here. The wife and I are going to break in a new cargo conversion a few days after labor day weekend. We've done 46 continental states over the years in a teardrop we recently sold. We're from Maine. Michigan is one state we haven't done. Long ago Michigan Mike indicated it was a good state to do. Being from Maine (rural folk) we tend to frequent national, state, and municipal parks shunning most private camping areas. We're not into cities and malls. We like naturally occurring stuff, hence national parks and monuments. We've seen many of them.
So, the question. I can research till I go blurry. The best advice is from the people who've been there and live there. Our plan is to start from Maine and fairly quickly get over to Michigan via ohio or possibly via buffalo and Canada (see map). We will return through Canada after exiting Michigan in the north. We plan to be out a few weeks. We like to travel instead of camping. We stop a day or two depending on what there is to see there then move on.
I THINK we plan on hugging the eastern side of Michigan. Can't see both borders at once so the east is the logical route.
With this information can you recommend routes/events/sites to see while in Michigan? The route through it isn't cast in stone. We deviate for good reason but would like to do the eastern half of it this time around. Even though we research and collect information at the borders I hate to find out later that we drove right by a major thing we should have seen and never knew about it.
Thanks in advance. If you ever need any Maine advice feel free to ask.