Mackinac Island & Lake Huron
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Mackinac Island & Lake Huron from The Grand Hotel - Elks & Islands 9 Nights / 10 Days Day 1 - Arrive to Michigan (famous for its red pants), get ready to discover wonderful historic rides. Ford Rouge Factory Tour: Pop open the hood on game-changing Depart for Dearborn, MI. Enjoy a dinner buffet included at an eatery with technology, sustainable design and sheer American grit at America’s the vibe of being in a 1920’s service station/prohibition bar with old style greatest manufacturing experience. Get an inside look at the making of brick, dark colors, rich wood and hand-hammered copper bar top, with America’s most iconic truck, the Ford F-150, and immerse yourself in many other unique features. After dinner, check-in to your hotel. (Meals: modern manufacturing’s most progressive concepts. Experience the D) awe-inspiring scale of a real factory floor as you rev up your inner Day 2 - Henry Ford Museum, Greenfield Village, & Ford engineer. This is where big ideas gain momentum. Enjoy lunch on own Rouge Factory Tour while visiting museum. Return to hotel for rest prior to an included dinner Enjoy breakfast at the hotel. Meet in the hotel lobby and depart. Arrive at a vibrant steakhouse offering Italian favorites such as homemade pasta with your All-Access Tickets at Henry Ford Museum and Tour, Greenfield plus a curated wine list. (Meals: B, D) Village and Ride, Ford Rouge Factory Tour, and Giant Screen Experience. Day 3 - Henry Ford Museum and Tour & Mansion Guided Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation: Step into a world where Behind the Scenes Tour past innovations fuel the imagination of generations to come. A vibrant Enjoy breakfast at the hotel. Meet in the hotel lobby and depart. Arrive at exploration of genius in all its forms, Henry Ford Museum of American Henry Ford Museum and Tour, enjoy All-Access Tickets to the Museum, Innovation allows you to experience the strides of America’s greatest Greenfield Village and Ride, & Ford Rouge Factory Tour. Enjoy lunch minds while fully immersing yourself in their stories. Step inside the bus included at a Tudor revival style mansion built between 1926 and 1929 by where Rosa Parks took a stand by taking a seat. Play pilot as you explore Matilda Dodge Wilson, widow of automobile pioneer John Dodge, and her flight innovations, starting with the Wright brothers' achievements, or second husband, Alfred Wilson. It represents one of the finest examples of make yourself at home inside Buckminster Fuller’s circular Dymaxion Tudor-revival architecture in America. Take a Guided Behind the Scenes House. Put yourself in the place of the movers and shakers who blazed the Tour of the 88,000 square foot house, exploring rarely-seen areas of The trail to where we stand today. And in doing so, discover your own path. Hall including staff wings, bathrooms, closets and playrooms. Return to Greenfield Village: Experience firsthand the sights, sounds and sensations hotel to refresh prior to an included dinner at an iconic lumber baron’s of America’s fascinating formation, where over 80 acres brim with mansion with an exquisite garden serving upscale New American cuisine. resourcefulness and ingenuity. Here, 300 years of American perseverance Depart and return to hotel for the evening. (Meals: B, L, D) serve as a living reminder that anything is possible. Step foot in the lab where Thomas Edison had his lightbulb moment or the workshop where Day 4 - Detroit Music City Tour & MGM Grand Casino the Wright brothers taught us to reach for the sky. Take a ride in a real Model T, or a walk through four working farms. Rub shoulders with Enjoy breakfast at the hotel prior to departing with GUIDE. Arrive in world-class artisans, and explore the place where America’s can-do spirit Detroit and enjoy a Detroit Music City Tour. Visit the Tuskegee Airman inspires you to go out and get it done. The rides at Greenfield Village not National Museum. See model aircraft, equipment, supplies, uniforms, only transport you—they hold stories, even mysteries, about America’s photographs and a continuous video presentation depicting participation past. Whether you’re a passenger on the Weiser Railroad (pulled by one of Blacks in aviation during WWII and their achievements following the of the oldest steam engines) or a carousel rider atop the giant green frog War until the Armed Forces were integrated. Next, is the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, a former factory located in the Milwaukee Junction area of strategic importance for the French, British and American forces that Detroit, built in 1904. It is a symbol of Detroit’s ability to invent, innovate fought in the Midwest during the 18th and 19th centuries. Fort Mackinac, and interpret automotive heritage. See the Motown Museum, the first located on Mackinac Island, was a stronghold for both the British and headquarters and former photographer’s studio nicknamed “Hitsville Americans, while Fort Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City was first a French U.S.A.” It was purchased by Motown founder Berry Gordy in 1959 for his trading post, and then a British fort. Both forts are now operated as residence and recording studios. Enjoy lunch with live entertainment museums open to the public. A third fort, Fort Holmes, was built by the during the tour. Depart for free time and dinner on own at MGM Grand British during the War of 1812 at the highest point on the island (just one Detroit Casino where a premier gaming experience is draped in modern mile north of Main Street). Fort Holmes was recently renovated and is luxuries, luxe décor, and places to relax and play. Return to hotel after now open to the public. Upon arrival, meet Horse-Drawn Carriages to The exploring. (Meals: B, L) Grand Hotel. Check-in to The Grand Hotel and enjoy dinner included in the Salle a Manger dining room. Guests choose off the menu. Seating is Day 5 - Elk Viewing & Wine Tasting open 6:30-8:30pm. (Meals: B, D) Enjoy breakfast at the hotel prior to checking out. Depart for Hillman, MI. Enjoy free time and lunch on own in Hillman, a village in Alpena and Day 7 - Narrated Carriage Tour of Mackinac Island & Grand Montmorency counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was Hotel 701 at the 2010 census. Nearly all of the village is located within Hillman Enjoy breakfast at leisure, buffet or off the menu, at the hotel. Enjoy a Township, with only a tiny portion extending into Green Township. Narrated Carriage Tour of Mackinac Island. Experience the history and Check-in to your resort. One of Northern Michigan’s most unique charm of Mackinac in the most enjoyable and authentic way. Your tour destinations, known for its award-winning Elk Viewing, carriage/sleigh includes the following stops: Surry Hills Carriage Museum, Wings of ride, gourmet dinner and wine tasting event. Enjoy dinner included and Mackinac Butterfly Conservatory: Stroll among hundreds of butterflies elk viewing. Begin your elk viewing journey by boarding a horse drawn dancing and chasing each other in this climate controlled conservatory carriage or sleigh lead by massive draft horses. You will be whisked "over filled with lush flowers, and Arch Rock: View the beautiful natural the river and through the woods" to the resorts elk preserve to view limestone formation which is one of the most photographed spots on the Rocky Mountain elk in their natural habitat. Then you will be treated to a Island, with breathtaking views of Lake Huron. Return to The Grand Hotel five course gourmet dinner and wine tasting event! You will be greeted at and enjoy lunch on own here or we suggest to take a carriage taxi into the Elk Antler Cabin by a warm fire and enchanting aromas where culinary town for a delightful afternoon of shopping at quaint shops and boutiques artist Spencer has prepared a five course gourmet dinner on 125 year old and enjoying lunch in one of the many delicious offerings located wood cook stoves. During dinner, experience up to six wines from the there. Enjoy dinner included in the Salle a Manger dining room. Guests Sunrise Side and be entertained with storytelling from your hosts. (Meals: choose off the menu. Seating is open 6:30-8:30pm. (Meals: B, D) B, D) Day 6 - Trolley Tour of Mackinaw City, Ferry Ride, & Horse- Day 8 - Ferry Ride, Shipwreck Cruise, and Great Lakes Drawn Carriage Maritime Heritage Center & Museum Enjoy breakfast at the hotel prior to checking out. Depart for Mackinaw Enjoy breakfast at the hotel prior to checking out. Take the Ferry to the City, MI. Enjoy free time and lunch on own in Mackinaw City, a village on mainland, Island Dock #1 to Mackinaw City Dock. Depart to Alpena, the northern tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, where the Great Lakes MI. Enjoy a boxed lunch while in route. Arrive in Alpena and enjoy a Huron and Michigan meet. Mackinac Bridge crosses the Straits of Lady Michigan Alpena Shipwreck Cruise in a glass-bottom boat. See Mackinac to the Upper Peninsula. Colonial Michilimackinac is a magnificently preserved shipwrecks and scenic shorelines of Thunder Bay. reconstructed 18th-century fort and fur-trading post. Founded in 1889, Dock, depart, and visit the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center & Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse has restored quarters and views from the Museum where there is a shipwreck gallery, theater and archaeology top. Wilderness State Park includes stretches of Lake Michigan shoreline, lab. It includes a full-size replica wooden Great Lakes schooner and trails and campsites. Depart on a Trolley Tour of Mackinaw City.