
Leave Traverse City for Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, 16 mi away
A typical year brings about 1.6M visitors to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. No place to visit is mapped inside Traverse City; 2 are within 40 miles. They include a national lakeshore and a museum. The big name further out is Higgins Lake, 48 mi from the centre.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Protected area.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
What’s around Traverse City
Michigan Legacy Art Park marks the outer edge, 26 mi away.
Orange: Traverse City. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
The list in full
5 places, all within 60 miles, make the list.
Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Traverse City →
Photo credits
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore: en:User:Grod028, Public domain · Higgins Lake: Hgjudd, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Ramsdell Theatre: Doug Coldwell, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Edward E. Hartwick Memorial Building: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain
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