The most beautiful place in America is the Sleeping Bear Dunes!
“It looks like nothing else in America.”
~Josh Elliot of Good Morning America
Tens of thousands of viewers voted online for this Michigan park, which is one of the nation’s best-kept secrets. The hidden gem boasts 64 miles of beaches along Lake Michigan, two islands, 26 inland lakes, more than 50,000 acres of land, and the monumental sand dunes from which it gets its name.
…”GMA” viewer Jim Madole of Grand Rapids, Mich., nominated Sleeping Bear for its natural beauty.
“It is peaceful and serene, a place for gazing out into the world, night or day, and realizing that the universe is truly a magical, majestic mystery, and humans are just a very small part of it all,” he wrote in his submission. “Here at Sleeping Bear, I sit in awe and wonder at the perfection of Mother Nature.”
Click through to see what Mario Batali has to say about the Sleeping Bear Dunes and explore it in depth at the official Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore website and in our clairvoyantly titled section, America’s Lakeshore: The Sleeping Bear Dunes! Get some amazing photos in the Sleeping Bear Dunes slideshow from the Leelanau.com group on Flickr!
Photo Credit: Visions in the Manitou Passage by Happyhiker4
