2025 Cheese Shanty Opening Day: Friday, April 18th!

The Village Cheese Shanty opens for the season TOMORROW, but they will there today from from 10-4 taking your orders over the phone!

Mark Lindsay shares The Soul of Sleeping Bear

Mark has released his first book, The Soul of Sleeping Bear. It’s a beautiful, coffee table book that blends gorgeous photography of the Sleeping Bear with writings on what these vistas can spark in your heart.
Not Today by Mark Smith

(not) Feeding America

Fox 17 West Michigan reports that Feeding America West Michigan has learned that the USDA has “paused” 32 truckloads of food scheduled to arrive from April to June.
Crystal River ... paddle day by Ken Scott Photography

Feds Freeze Leelanau Bridge Projects

The Leelanau Ticker reports that the federal funding freeze has already impacted Leelanau County road construction projects
In the Michigan Immense Public Park by Andrew Mcfarlane

A Letter from the Lakeshore

Letter from a National Forest Service employee who is neck deep in the horrors being perpetrated against the National Park Service and the National Forest Service.

Happy Valentine’s Day, Leelanau!!

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone & I hope you have a lovely & love-filled Valentine’s Day & weekend!

Lake to Table with Carlson’s Fisheries

Explore the entire lake-to-table process of taking fish from Lake Michigan in Peshawbestown to Carlson's Fishery in Leland and all the way to a plate at the Cove!
Fishtown Winter by Charles Bonham

Fishtown Winter by Charles Bonham

Leland’s Fishtown taken January 15, 2025.
Lake Michigan ... anticipation

Meteors & Moonbeams this Weekend!

EarthSky shares that since the radiant - the point in the sky from which the meteors appear to radiate - for the Geminid Meteor Shower rises in mid-evening, you can watch for these meteors all night long in the days before & after the evenings of December 13-14.
Open for Business? by Mark Smith

Winter is ready to rumble!

Yesterday afternoon the National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Watch for Leelanau, Benzie, Grand Traverse & much of northern Michigan for 6+ inches of snow & high winds.

Anangong Miigaading (Star Wars- A New Hope) premiers TONIGHT at the State

The original Star Wars film from 1977 dubbed entirely in the Anishinaabemowin (Ojibwe) language, the original language of much of Michigan!

Mr Coyote

Coyotes are found in every county in Michigan including Leelanau!