Trip Planning Calendar - Pure Michigan - Discovering the Four-Season State

Clair celebrating its 150th anniversary and the 100th anniversary of the Ford Model T and General Motors. Including the portside city of St, 2008 has many milestone events. And every year there is something new to enjoy - from beachtowns overlooking Lake Michigan to the urban vibe in southeast Michigan, michigan offers hundreds of attractions for its residents and visitors, annually.

Enhanced Places to Stay

100-seat live theater, 000 square feet of gaming space and a new 1, the complex will also feature 100. The 30-story hotel will include 10 banquet rooms and two new restaurants, slated to open in October 2008. The revitalization of the city of Detroit continues with the opening of the 400-room hotel at the Greektown Casino.

2009 will mark 100 years since the first La-Z-Boy recliner swept America off its feet), each guest room features La-Z-Boy furnishings - a tribute to the furniture giant that has been located in Monroe since 1927 (Incidentally. And the first ever "world-class" lodging in Monroe, hotel Sterling is a new 11-room boutique hotel offering visitors to downtown Monroe the first lodging facility in decades.

Has renovated rooms to keep up with the competition, formerly the Pontchartrain, the Detroit Marriot at the Renaissance Center and the Sheraton Detroit Riverside. To be operated by Hilton Hotel Corp, which is being redeveloped as the Fort Shelby Double Tree Suites, visitors can also look forward to the addition of 204 luxury hotel suites as part of the old Pick-Fort-Shelby. And meeting space, three restaurants, the Book Cadillac will feature 455 guest rooms and suites. Detroit's hotel choices will expand when the Westin Book Cadillac Detroit hotel opens also in October 2008 following a $180 million restoration of what was the largest hotel in the country when it first opened in 1924.

And swimming classes, aqua aerobics, and will continue to provide lap swimming, and sprayground giving it the excitement of a water park, waterwalk, grand Traverse Resort and Spa is converting its indoor pools into an aquatics play area with a waterslide.

The game allows guests to battle and vanquish computer-generated dragons and goblins through the property. Families can continue to splash in the indoor waterpark and soon enjoy a miniature golf course and a state-of-the-art interactive fantasy game called MagiQuest. And additional meeting space, a Grand Ballroom, 700-swquare-foot conference center, great Wolf Lodge of Traverse City plans to open its new 9.

Wine and Dine

Iridescence received the AAA-Four Diamond Award rating and is the recipient of the 2007 Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. MotorCity Casino will move its Iridescence restaurant to the top of the 17-story hotel that opened in late 2007.

Red Ginger is an upscale Asian fusion restaurant and sushi bar. Catch Island Grill is a Caribbean-style eatery with an emphasis on fresh and saltwater fish. Downtown Traverse City has introduced two new restaurants as well. Grand Traverse Resort and Spa also has a new restaurant on its top floor named Aerie.

Places to Play

And are free with museum admission. To 10 p.m. Activities take place from 6 p.m. And much more, guided tours, art-making workshops, with live music. Friday Night Live, visitors can now enjoy a new DIA program! The Detroit Institute of Arts recently reopened following a comprehensive renovation and expansion project that began in 2001.

Midway between Suttons Bay and Northport, the museum site is on M-22 on the eastern coast of the Leelanau Peninsula. And classrooms, a museum store, archives, it will include galleries. The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians have broken ground on a new tribal museum and cultural center in the native community of Peshawbestown.