SimplyOutdoors has somewhat of a treat today.  We have a guest blog from a blogger that all of you should be familiar with.  So without further adoo here is one of Kristine’s contributions to my Michigan Sanctuaries Series. Arthur has been patiently waiting for a guest post from me for a while now, and I [...]

Our next installment of the Michigan Sanctuary series features a place that I have spent many hours visiting over the years. That place is Duck Lake in Calhoun County. My parents actually live on this lake, and have lake access, so I have been fortunate enough in the last couple of years to be able [...]

For the next stop on our Michigan Sanctuaries tour we are headed back into the Upper Peninsula to visit a truly wild and scenic place that serves as an excellent spot for hunting, fishing, and wildlife viewing. That place is Seney National Wildlife Refuge. The Seney National Wildlife Refuge has been around since 1935. It [...]

Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsula are separated by a pretty good body of water known as the Straights of Mackinaw. The Straights are actually an area where Lake Huron on the east, and Lake Michigan on the west, meet. For years Michigan residents or tourists, if they wanted to cross the straights, had to do [...]