Central Michigan

Understand

Central Michigan is not a cosmopolitan area. The largest city is Lansing, only containing 400,000 people (if you count the suburbs and rural area around it). Most of the land is pleasant, flat farmland, with modest groves of trees and the occasional small town.

Getting there

The main roads leading into Central Michigan are I-69, I-75, I-94, and I-96.

By plane Capital Region International Airport LAN IATA in Lansing has flights from Detroit, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Washington-National, and Chicago O'Hare airports. Bishop International Airport FNT IATA has flights from Orlando, Tampa, Chicago-O'Hare, Hartsfield-Jackson (Atlanta), Minneapolis/St. Paul, Baltimore, and McCarran (Las Vegas) airports. MBS International Airport MBS IATA receives flights from Detroit, Chicago-O'Hare, and Minneapolis/St. Paul airports.

Getting around

By car

The Thumb Most of the main roads in the Thumb are State Roads:

Huron County: M-19, M-142 (Sand Beach Road) Tuscola County: M-15, M-24, M-138 Sanilac County: M-90 Huron-Tuscola: M-53 Tuscola-Sanilac: M-46, M-81 Huron-Tuscola-Sanilac: M-25

See

Harbor Beach has what is considered to be the "Greatest Man-Made Harbor in the World". Lansing is the capital city of the state, and the largest city in the area, full of amazing architecture; and east of the city is Michigan State University. Port Huron is one of the busiest border crossings from Michigan to Canada (behind Detroit and Windsor); the bridge connecting Port Huron to Point Edward/Sarnia is the Blue Water Bridge. Flint is one of the largest cities in Michigan; though it is a crumbling city of 99,000 residents, there is still a vibrant downtown and is still a small hub for transportation, as with many other cities in the area.

Do

The inner Thumb is mostly fertile farmland, but the Lake Huron coastline provides many beach opportunities. Go swimming, jet-skiing or catch a tan on the shores of Lake Huron.