Area Attractions

Attractions within 20 miles of Park

Leelanau Sands Casino

Located a scenic 20 miles north of Traverse City on M-22 in Peshawbestown, Michigan. Featuring your favorite slot machines from nickel to $100 denominations, Black Jack, Three Card Poker, Let It Ride, Roulette, Texas Hold'em Poker and Craps. Leelanau Sands is your year-round action attraction!

1-800-922-2WIN or 231-271-4104
2649 NW Bayshore Dr., Peshawbestown, MI
Hours: 7 days, 10am – 2am

Beautiful Golf Courses

No matter how good or bad your swing is, Leelanau County has a golf course for you.  With the sprawling hillside, breathtaking views of lake Michigan, orchards, and surrounding wildlife anyone can get lost in this game.

• Kings Challenge
• Dunes Golf Club
• Leelanau Club
• Sugarloaf-The Old Course
• Mistwood

 

Breathtaking Beaches

Leelanau Country has breathtaking sandy beaches that sprawl Lake Michigan, Grand Traverse Bay, and many inland lakes. If sun and sand are what you desire, than we have a beach for you. 

Wineries & Vintners

If the delightful smells and taste of wine tickle your senses than the area
has some of the best wineries and vintners around.

• Bel Lago Vineyard and Winery
• Black Star Farms
• Chateau Fontaine
• Chateau de Leelanau Vineyard and Winery
• Cherry Republic Winery
• Ciccone Vineyard and Winery
• Gill's Pier Vineyard & Winery
• Good Harbor Vineyards
• L. Mawby
• Leelanau Wine Cellars
• Raftshol Winery
• Shady Lane Cellars
• Willow Vineyard

 

 

Historic Fish Town In Leland

Go back in time to the historic fish town in Leland.  You can see the catch of the day slowly smoked to perfection.  You can charter a fishing boat to go and catch your own.  Or you can order the freshly prepared fish at The Cove Restaurant as you site a top the Leland River Falls.  From eating... to shopping... to fishing... Leland is a must see.

 

 

Sleeping Bear Dunes

On the northwestern shore of Michigan’s lower peninsula lies Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a hilly region fringed with massive coastal sand dunes and dotted with clear lakes. It is a diverse landscape, embracing quiet, birch-lined streams, dense beech-maple forests, and rugged bluffs towering as high as 460 feet above Lake Michigan. Photo courtesy of National Park Service

 

National Cherry Festival

Remember the sights, sounds, and smells of a summer celebration in your hometown when you were a kid? Happy days return to Traverse City's beautiful Lake Michigan shores with over 150 events, including free air shows over the Bay, colorful parades, music shows, sporting events, marching bands, rides on the midway, pie-eating contests, clean blue skies, warm sunshine, crowds of smiling faces, and loads of luscious cherries prepared every way you can imagine!  See National Cherry Festival for more details.

North & South Manitou Island

North Manitou Island lies in Lake Michigan west of the Leelanau Peninsula between sunrise and sunset. It is twelve and one-half miles from the port of Leland. The island is seven miles long and four and one-half miles wide, with approximately 25 miles of shoreline. It is comprised of approximately 15,000 acres or twenty-two square miles of land area. The island is blessed with a varied terrain of hills, dunes, forests, lakes, meadows and beaches. Lake Manitou is a treasure nestled in the center of the island. Visitors who yearn to return have been claimed by the spirit of the Manitou. Photo courtesy ofLeelanau.com. For trip info see Manitou Island Transit.