Pay a visit to New Buffalo and Petoskey along Little Traverse Bay in summer, and you'll find a number of good-value lakefront resorts paired with lively downtowns.
Whether you are on a romantic getaway or traveling with the family, the Michigan shoreline is home to plenty of wide sugar-sand beaches, rolling dune scapes, and fun small towns.
But for this article, we are focusing on resorts on the Michigan side of the lake. The second-largest of the Great Lakes, Lake Michigan also has lakefront real estate in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. With about 1,400 miles of shoreline touching multiple states, Lake Michigan is home to numerous beach resorts that really come alive in the summer.
