Mackinaw City Tours

Travel under Michigan’s majestic Mackinac Bridge and learn about the many shipwrecks that happened below on this guided, 1-hour history cruise. Discover more than 100 years of history in the Straits of Mackinac and see Fort Michilimackinac and the Old Mackinac Point Light from the water.

Get in and amongst Mackinac Island’s art, culture, and history with this interactive, app-led scavenger hunt. You don’t need to stick to a group tour or follow a guide around. Instead, solve challenges with your group, compete with others on the app to climb higher on the leaderboard, and learn all about Mackinac Island as you play the game. Bring the entire family, and the dog, for a fun excursion.

You can really appreciate the size of Lake Michigan when cruising out on the water, and on this one hour cruise from Mackinaw City, you'll not only sail between the strait that separates Michigan's peninsulas, but cruise right under the Mackinaw Bridge while watching the sun go down. The cruise is offered each evening except Tuesdays, and is one of the best places in North America for finishing the day under sail. Listen as the Captain regales you with history of Michigan's most famous island, and relax with a drink as you casually sail along the Mackinaw shore.

Take a relaxing evening cruise under one of the wonders of Michigan, the Mackinac Bridge. Your will get some interesting facts about the Straits of Mackinac while enjoying the sights, from our historic Straits of Mackinac cruise boat. Beer, wine and Non-Alcoholic beverages will be served.

Our very unique, immersive adventures are the only ones of their kind. We, unlike other companies, provide your very own remote, interactive, live host to assist and encourage you along through your phone. We are an Austin, TX-based global custom event design company offering scavenger hunts and other events in 300+ cities in North America and beyond. Our specially hand-crafted adventures are equal parts tour, creative challenge, detective hunt, and social experiment! Guests get to discover in an alternate reality our favorite hidden gems off the beaten trail and creatively interpret fun art, history, and culture clues - for points! They get to enjoy fame and glory while appearing on our website’s international leaderboard, no matter what their score. They get to essentially race other teams in other cities, even if they don’t have competitors who have signed up in their city that day. Get ready to discover unusual oddities, laugh out loud, and make the experience your own!

Highlights Include: Live Programs and Tours: Demonstrations and tours by costumed interpreters are scheduled throughout the day. Exciting programs taking place throughout the 2024 season include a daily Mackinac Parks: 125 program, an updated Soldier’s Life program, an expanded People of Fort Mackinac Timeline Walking Tour, and an exciting Drill, Tactics and Firearms Program. The 2024 daily event schedule will be posted soon. Exhibits: All fourteen buildings in the fort are restored and open to the public. They are furnished with period settings highlighting the building’s particular function or a themed exhibit. Movie: Heritage of Mackinac is featured in the Post Commissary, providing an overview history of Mackinac. It repeats every 20 minutes. Learn more at www.mackinacparks.com

Have an adventure! Historic Mill Creek is a trip back to the 1830s, and so much more. Feel the power of the creek as it is harnessed to operate the water-powered sawmill. Smell the fresh sawdust as sawyers demonstrate the pitsaw method of cutting lumber. You may be lucky enough to be selected to help! Explore engaging exhibits inside the Visitor's Center and at the Millwright's House, and learn about farming in the Workshop. While Historic Mill Creek is teeming with history, its natural history is equally fascinating. Join trained naturalists for guided nature walks, and learn about the wild side of Mill Creek during Nature of the North Woods programs. Or, go on your own through the park's three miles of groomed trails.

This is an all-time favorite trip around Little Traverse Bay for bicycle enthusiasts! We’ll meet in Petoskey at Bahnhof Sports to rent bikes if you’re not bringing your own, and begin our pedaling journey around Little Traverse Bay from there. We’ll ride through Bay View, a community founded in 1875 by Michigan Methodists, & continue on along Lake Michigan through private gardens, as we approach Petoskey State Park. We’ll then enter Harbor Springs along little Traverse Bay, and ride through Wequetonsing, a lovely community established in 1877 & formerly known as the Presbyterian Summer Resort. We’ll arrive in downtown Harbor Springs just in time for lunch & shopping! After a couple of hours in Harbor Springs, we’ll ready ourselves to board the Little Traverse Bay Ferry and head back across the Bay to Petoskey. Upon our arrival at Bayfront Park, we’ll finish our pedaling journey along the bay on the Little Traverse Wheelway, arriving back at our starting point.

Historic Downtown Mackinac is a collection of historic sites located throughout downtown Mackinac Island, presenting history from pre-European contact into the 1950s. This self-guided museum experience includes The Biddle House, featuring the Mackinac Island Native American Museum, explores the history of the Anishnaabek people of Mackinac Island through the lens of Agatha Biddle, an Odawa woman who lived in the house in the 1830s. The Benjamin Blacksmith Shop is a working blacksmith shop set in the 1950s, toward the end of the shop's life. The Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum displays works inspired by Mackinac Island, including a juried exhibition. The American Fur Co. Store & Dr. Beaumont Museum was the site of a famous accident that altered the course of medical history, while the McGulpin House is a rare example of French Canadian architecture, and possibly the oldest residence still standing on Mackinac Island.

Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse was known as the "Castle on the Straits" upon its completion, and it's not hard to see why. The house and grounds are being restored back to its 1910 appearance, and interactive exhibits and galleries, informative demonstrations, and tours of the tower allow guests the opportunity to step back int time and see what life was like for keepers and mariners at the turn of the 20th century.

Colonial Michilimackinac is a National Historic Landmark, and is home to North America's longest ongoing archaeological dig. Costumed interpreters portraying British soldiers, merchants, voyageurs, Native Americans, and other tradespeople are on site daily, providing demonstrations, tours, and programs. Colonial Michilimackinac also offers unparalleled views of the Straits of Mackinac, Mackinac Bridge, and Mackinac Island. During the summer months, weather permitting, archaeologists are on site, digging through the layers of soil, pulling out bits of history in front of you.