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Mid-Michigan is a great place to spend a few days touring, with great areas to visit, excellent restaurants and shops, and beautiful parks and places to relax and enjoy with friends. If your group wants to try something new, consider these six points of interest on a tour of mid-Michigan’s many great places to go.

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is a true treasure, with so many places to go, events to attend and entertainment options to enjoy, it’s almost impossible to give it all the accolades deserved. Instead, here’s a look at group trip ideas to enjoy the great outdoors in one of our country’s most pristine and beautiful areas.

Lake Superior, as its name states, is in a class by itself in the Americas. With a surface area of 31,700 square miles and a volume of three quadrillion gallons (that’s 3,000,000,000,000,000) or 10 percent of the world’s fresh surface water, it’s topped only by Lake Baikal in Siberia, which holds 20 percent of the world’s freshwater.

Michigan is pretty much synonymous with water, freshwater that is, and it’s no wonder. The mitten state has 11,000 inland lakes and borders four of the five Great Lakes with more than 3,100 miles of freshwater shoreline — more than any other state (and second only to Alaska for total shoreline). That said, it stands to reason that Michigan also has a ton of great beaches and most Michiganders have their sworn favorites. But here’s a challenge for your next group trip — try a new beach nowhere near your favorite and get to know what other areas have to offer. You might be happily surprised to find you have two favorites!

If you’re looking for group bus trip ideas this summer, we’ve got you covered.

Plan a bus trip this summer and it could help keep your family together by forging bonds between generations and creating memories. As more baby boomers retire, multigenerational vacations (aka “togethering”) are becoming a travel niche and give families time to just relax and enjoy each other, without all the hassles of work, school and daily life.

Used to be Michigan was only really known for brewing Stroh’s beer, but those days are long gone now that an explosion of excellent craft breweries has taken place and we now claim names like Bell's and Founders as our own. And even better is the fact these breweries can be found statewide from Marquette in the U.P. to Grand Rapids and Paw Paw, to Detroit to Lansing. When your group wants a fun and safe way to go brewery crawling, there’s no better option than an Indian Trails charter. 

With spring peeking through the clouds, there's only one thing on our mind here at Indian Trails: travel plans! We're sharing our bucket list for spring of 2018, from can't-miss traditions to new experiences, here's where we'll be this spring.