Bus Tours of the Great Lakes

Schlieper Bus Tours & Cruises

• Schlieper Bus Tours & Cruises' Best of Michigan Tour takes visitors on a whirlwind bus tour of Michigan, which includes history, culture, architecture and the beauty of the Great Lakes. After viewing the sites of the Detroit area, the tour takes visitors up north to Charlevoix, a picturesque town on Lake Michigan's coast. After a quiet evening of shopping and resting, the tour continues up the coast of Lake Michigan into Michgan's Upper Peninsula to the Soo Locks, where Lake Superior and Lake Huron connect. The tour returns to Mackinaw City and the bus passengers take the ferry to Mackinaw Island, which sits in the waterways between Lake Michigan and lake Huron. The small island allows visitors to discover the beauty of the northern Great Lakes region.

  Schlieper Bus Tours and Cruises

  P.O. Box 1409

  Graham, NC 27253

  336-229-7996

  BusToursAndCruises.com

Green Tortoise Adventure Travel

• Green Tortoise Adventure Travel organizes trips and tours of America, each of which concentrates on a different venue and route. Their Northern Dream Westbound bus tour starts in Boston and brings the group around Lake Erie as it heads westward. In Pennsylvania, the tour spends a day at Presque Isle State Park where tour participants can boat through the lagoons with a pontoon boat, or kayak in the lake. Green Tortoise's Northern Crossing Eastbound tour brings bus passengers eastward from the West Coast and stops at Lake Michigan for a visit to the beaches and dunes along the lake.

  Green Tortoise Adventure Travel

  494 Broadway

  San Francisco, CA 94133

  800-867-8647

  greentortoise.com

Alger County Transit

• Tourists to Michigan's Upper Peninsula can take a ferry to Grand Isle, an island off Lake Superior's south shore near Munising. Visitors may hike or go mountain biking if they want to explore the island, or they can sign up for a three and one-half hour bus tour that circles the island, allowing them to get a full view of the island's natural beauty and scenery. Congress has designated Grand Isle as a National Recreation Area and summer visitors can take one of the two daily tours to enjoy the beauty of the region.

  Alger County Transit

  530 E. Munising Ave. - P.O. Box 69

  Munising, Michigan 49862

  906-387-4845

  altranbus.com