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The Pike magazine Each issue of The Pike is intended to be an escape, and will transport you to places yet experienced

Silver Lake's ORV season is in full swing! If you've never motored over these magnificent dunes, it is a must. 🌊📷 Think ...
06/17/2022

Silver Lake's ORV season is in full swing! If you've never motored over these magnificent dunes, it is a must. 🌊

📷 Think Dunes: Silver Lake Sand Dunes

Silver Lake's magnificent sand dunes are enchanting under any light, but we may be partial to pink. 🤷🌊📷 Think Dunes: Sil...
06/03/2022

Silver Lake's magnificent sand dunes are enchanting under any light, but we may be partial to pink. 🤷🌊

📷 Think Dunes: Silver Lake Sand Dunes

🎨 Art on the Meadow at Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck offers affordable, multi-level and intergenerational creative w...
05/31/2022

🎨 Art on the Meadow at Ox-Bow School of Art in Saugatuck offers affordable, multi-level and intergenerational creative workshops for locals and visitors this summer. Subjects cover writing and bookmaking; textile and fiber processes; photography and printmaking; and developing methods for artmaking that will serve you well beyond your workshop experience.

Float, gaze, draft, scheme, craft, sculpt, grow and dream on Ox-Bow's meadow this summer!

Art on the Meadow offers creative workshops that are affordable, multi-level, and intergenerational for our West Michigan neighbors and visitors. This year’s workshop offerings are designed to spark the creative process in new and exciting ways. Our summer 2022 schedule provides opportunities to e...

05/29/2022

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🐢 It's officially turtle time on The Pike. Many are inching along our favorite roads and trails seeking a place to lay t...
05/23/2022

🐢 It's officially turtle time on The Pike. Many are inching along our favorite roads and trails seeking a place to lay their eggs. Move them out of harm's way by picking them up like a sandwich around their shell. ❤️

📍 and 📷: Mosquito Creek Trails, Twin Lake, Muskegon County

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We're still admiring the work of Stephanie Schlatter, whose striking talent was featured on our spring cover! 🎨 Learn ab...
05/17/2022

We're still admiring the work of Stephanie Schlatter, whose striking talent was featured on our spring cover! 🎨 Learn about her Michigan-based inspiration and artistic process in our latest online story.

Schlatter is best known for her colorful landscape paintings that reflect Lake Michigan, M-22 and many other Pike-region destinations.

📢 Pike PSA: Ticks are expected to be more abundant than usual this season. You may feel silly tucking your pants into yo...
05/11/2022

📢 Pike PSA: Ticks are expected to be more abundant than usual this season. You may feel silly tucking your pants into your socks when hiking or camping, but we guarantee it is preferable to pulling these potentially dangerous parasites out of your skin. 🌊

Holland is home to the only authentic, working Dutch windmill in the United States! 😯🌷 Have you been to Windmill Island ...
05/11/2022

Holland is home to the only authentic, working Dutch windmill in the United States! 😯🌷 Have you been to Windmill Island Gardens?

📍 De Zwaan windmill, Holland
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Moms are simply extraordinary. 🌊💐 Happy Mother's Day, from the team.
05/08/2022

Moms are simply extraordinary. 🌊💐 Happy Mother's Day, from the team.

Right on time 🌷❤️
04/28/2022

Right on time 🌷❤️

Wonderful news! 👏🫖 This summer, Ludington's HumaniTea is moving from James Street to Ludington Avenue.
04/28/2022

Wonderful news! 👏🫖 This summer, Ludington's HumaniTea is moving from James Street to Ludington Avenue.

Fyi
04/27/2022

Fyi

Michigan has many shipwrecks that don’t require an air tank or a wetsuit to view – only a pair of hiking boots, a paddle or a snorkel and mask.

Feeling lucky? Enter The Pike's giveaway for your chance to win terrific fresh-coast prizes from our partners: Clearbroo...
04/22/2022

Feeling lucky? Enter The Pike's giveaway for your chance to win terrific fresh-coast prizes from our partners: Clearbrook Golf, Holland Bowl Mill and S.S. Badger: Lake Michigan Carferry. https://pikelife.com/giveaway/

Great to see Michigan and our lovely lakeshore getting some attention 😆🌊
04/21/2022

Great to see Michigan and our lovely lakeshore getting some attention 😆🌊

A funnel cake is calling our name. 🌷😋 Who is ready for Tulip Time Festival? In our latest story, we reflect on Dutch her...
04/18/2022

A funnel cake is calling our name. 🌷😋 Who is ready for Tulip Time Festival? In our latest story, we reflect on Dutch heritage and share what's new in Holland from May 7 to 15.

Since the tulips first bloomed in May 1929, Tulip Time Festival has continued to evolve and maintain cultural relevancy with events that celebrate Holland’s vibrant community.

Shout out to Sandy Nichols, the lucky winner of our Petoskey dream date giveaway. Special thanks to Terrace Inn & The 19...
04/12/2022

Shout out to Sandy Nichols, the lucky winner of our Petoskey dream date giveaway. Special thanks to Terrace Inn & The 1911 Restaurant, Great Lakes Center for the Arts and Grandpa Shorters Gifts Inc. Could you be our next winner? Try your luck at pikelife.com/giveaway.

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🔊Volume up: Ever heard "singing sand" beneath your feet? Grain size, silica presence and humidity create this phenomenon. Few places have it; some are the British Isles, the eastern tip of Prince Edward Island and Lake Michigan's coast. 🌊

Torch Lake
Torch Lake

Sandbar day, anyone? 🌊🚤 📍 Torch Lake, near Rapid City

🍻 It’s 5 o’clock somewhere! We’re gearing up for the holiday weekend with these summertime brews from Big Lake Brewing. How are you celebrating the Fourth along The Pike?

Check out these fall views from Holland’s Mt. Pisgah! 🍁🍂

Hippie Tree in Traverse City, near the former state hospital

Welcome to The Pike!
Welcome to The Pike!

The Pike magazine's inaugural digital edition is LIVE NOW. 🌊🤩 Here's a special fresh-coast thank-you from our publisher, Elly DeVries. 💙 Not yet subscribed? ➡️ Receive free access by using promo code FreshCoast! ➡️ pikelife.com/getitfree

Dutch Dance in Holland, Mich.
Dutch Dance in Holland, Mich.

🌷 How do you celebrate your heritage? Each year, Holland's community comes together to perform a large Dutch folk dance at the Tulip Time Festival in May.

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Welcome to The Pike, Michigan’s only coastal regional magazine.

The Pike derives its name from the iconic thoroughfare called the West Michigan Pike — named a Pure Michigan Byway in 2017. Its express purpose was to deliver tourists from places south, namely Chicago, to the cities along Michigan’s west coast. Today, we recognize it as U.S. 31.

A century ago, the bountiful resources of Michigan’s western and northern lakeshore region — dunes, beaches, lakes, rivers and forests — were introduced to all of America via the development of the automobile and the West Michigan Pike — the state’s first improved road. Every coastal community from Grand Beach to Mackinaw City has prospered from the millions of people who have visited since the early 1900s. Many thousands put down roots to shape and define the cities, destinations and experiences that will be shared in The Pike.

Each issue of The Pike is intended to be an escape, a means of transporting readers to places yet experienced or to places worth returning. Inside the pages of The Pike, readers will discover the people and places found along the roads and within the coastal communities along the Lake Michigan shore.