Staying in Lake
A small unincorporated community in Clare County — a post office, a scatter of small fishing lakes, and real quiet.
Category: Location Guides
Town and area guides — how a place actually works, what it’s near, and where to stay.
Staying in Sears
A crossroads in eastern Osceola County — the Amish farms, Big Lake, and the dark you actually drove out here for.
Staying in Merritt
A dot in Missaukee County where the young Muskegon River pools behind a 1940 dam. Fishing, a dirt track, and deep quiet.
Staying in Barryton
A four-hundred-person village at the fork of the Chippewa, and the reasons to come are all past the village limits.
Staying in Chippewa Lake
The largest natural lake in Mecosta County, the small town wrapped around it, and the honest reason to come.
Staying in Hersey
The first village in Osceola County, where the Hersey River meets the Muskegon — trout water, quiet, and not much else.
Staying in Canadian Lakes: the lake-and-golf community in Mecosta County
A private lake-and-golf community in Mecosta County — how it's laid out, the drive in, and what a renter can actually use.
Staying in Montague
A small city on the north shore of White Lake, twinned with Whitehall, a channel away from Lake Michigan.
Staying in Evart: the Muskegon River town in Osceola County
A small Osceola County city on the Muskegon River: the fishing, the quiet, and one loud July weekend of dulcimers.
Staying in Mecosta: the lake country of Mecosta County
A one-square-mile village ringed by more lakes than it has streets — and what all that water is for.