103 parks. Strong opinions. Zero apologies. Michigan has 103 state parks. You've been to maybe six of them. Possibly the same six everyone else has been to. Sleeping Bear, Pictured Rocks, Porcupine Mountains, Holland, maybe Tahquamenon Falls, maybe Mackinac Island if you're counting that. The greatest hits. The ones that show up on every list, every Pure Michigan commercial, every "best of the Midwest" article written by someone who spent four days here in August and felt qua

The places the brochure doesn't mention. The ones worth finding. Every Michigander has a list. Not the official list. Not the Pure Michigan commercial list with Sleeping Bear and Mackinac and the Pictured Rocks kayak tour that books up in February. That list is fine. Those places are beautiful and they earned their reputation and you should go to all of them. But the other list. The one you share carefully, with people you trust, with the mild internal conflict of wanting the