Top 10 Midwestern getaways
Mon May 21, 12:00 PM ET
The top 10 places for a small-town getaway weekend are:
-Ephraim/Fish Creek, Wis., in Door County along Lake Michigan. The county has lighthouses, beaches, parks, golf courses, biking, art galleries and shopping.
-Petoskey/Charlevoix, Mich., resort towns along the Lower Peninsula's northwestern shore with a beach, harbor, shopping and art galleries.
-Galena, Ill., where the business district houses beautifully preserved century-old buildings.
-Madison, Ind., an old riverboat port framed by limestone bluffs and the Ohio River, with 133 blocks on the National Historic Register housing antique shops, gardens and grand homes.
-Saugatuck/Douglas, Mich., side-by-side Lake Michigan shore villages that are both artists' havens.
-Nashville, Ind., an artists' colony amid hills and forests 55 miles from Indianapolis.
-Bayfield, Wis., where kayaks and tour boats hopscotch amid the beaches, lighthouses and camp sites on the 22 nearby Apostle Islands.
-Put-in-Bay, Ohio, a carless town filled with family attractions, reachable only by ferry from northwest Ohio's Lake Erie shore.
-Stillwater, Minn., where you'll find forests and a craggy river valley, along with Victorian mansions, historic shops and cruises in a gondola built in Venice.
-Mackinac Island, Mich., also carless, where the clip-clop of horse hooves takes you back in time, and the renowned Victorian era Grand Hotel lives up to its name.
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