The trip after the wedding
A friendsmoon in Mackinac Island, MI
1 place here can put the whole group under one roof.
The trip you take with your friends right after the wedding — instead of the honeymoon, or before it.
Where the group sleeps
- Inn-at-Stonecliffe 5BR$900–$2,100 / night
Private cliff-side estate
Sleeps 12
What you do
- Bike the 8-mile loop
Lakeshore loop with Arch Rock + cliffs
- Horse-drawn carriage tour
No cars allowed — horses are the transit
- Fudge tasting walk
Six fudge shops on Main
- Grand Hotel afternoon tea on the Porch
660-foot porch, 1887 silver service, string trio
- Astor Spa at Mission Point
Straits-view massages + pool lounge
- Arch Rock sunrise photoshoot
Iconic limestone arch + Lake Huron dawn
Where you eat
- The Jockey Club
Lake-view fine dining at Grand Hotel
- Doud's Market deli + lawn picnic
Pack lunch for the bluffs
- Woods Restaurant
A Tudor hunting lodge on Cudahy Circle, inland from the harbor, cooking Midwest heritage ingredients and wild game. Published entrees run $42 to $78; dinner nightly mid-May through late October.
Still deciding?
How Mackinac Island stacks up against the other places in the Midwest.
- Mackinac Island or Galena?
- Mackinac Island or Grand Rapids?
- Mackinac Island or Indianapolis?
- Mackinac Island or Iowa City?
- Mackinac Island or Kansas City?
- Mackinac Island or Lake Geneva?
- Mackinac Island or Lake of the Ozarks?
- Mackinac Island or Lincoln?
- Mackinac Island or Madison?
- Mackinac Island or Milwaukee?
- Mackinac Island or Minneapolis?
- Mackinac Island or Nashville?
- Mackinac Island or Omaha?
- Mackinac Island or Overland Park?
- Mackinac Island or Sandusky?
- Mackinac Island or Sioux Falls?