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Chicago magazine » Dining and Drinking
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Sheboygan, WisconsinThe drive: 2.5 hours Sheboygan has long been known as the home of the bratwurst (and more recently as the go-to spot for Vera Pizza Napoletana–certified wood-fired pizzas at one of my favorite restaurants, Il Ritrovo). But what I love most about this small city halfway between Milwaukee and Green Bay is its lesser-known ... Read more ..read more
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Port Washington, WisconsinThe drive: 2 hours Port Washington is a place where time stands still — the view from Franklin Street up the hill to St. Mary’s Church always postcard-perfect, the caw of seagulls in the near distance reminding you of vacations gone by. Even the music playing in the boutiques is stuck somewhere in the yacht-rock ... Read more ..read more
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New Buffalo and Three Oaks, MichiganThe drive: 1.5 hours I could tell you that my lifelong besties and I make an annual pilgrimage to southwest Michigan’s Harbor Country for the sunsets, which turn the sky and lake into a painter’s palette of lavender and saffron and indigo and invite us to contemplate the fleeting nature of ... Read more ..read more
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Garden Peninsula, MichiganThe drive: 6 hours The Garden Peninsula, which I discovered on a drive around the Great Lakes nearly 20 years ago, is out of the way even for the Upper Peninsula. Hanging off the bottom of the mother peninsula, it is a 22-mile-long knuckle of land reaching from Michigan toward Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula. ... Read more ..read more
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chicago to milwaukeeThe bike ride: 10 hours Friendships are based on two things: common interests and complaining. My friend Patryk excels at the latter. For years, he complained that I never invited him on my long-distance cycling trips around the Midwest. When I asked him to ride with my bike team, he complained about that, ... Read more ..read more
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Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, MichiganThe drive: 5.5 hours On a glorious late-summer day a couple of years ago, my wife, Rebecca, and I hiked the modest incline in Sleeping Bear Dunes that leads to Pyramid Point, not far from the town of Glen Arbor. We ascended 1.2 miles through the beech and maple forest ... Read more ..read more
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Racine, WisconsinThe drive: 1.5 hours Among travelers whose plans center on food, I’m of a particular subset: I map out trips around baked things. And if we’re talking a hyperregional specialty, all the better. (Ask my husband, whom I’ve dragged on tours of the sfogliatelles of Naples, the bagels of Montreal, and all the clangers ... Read more ..read more
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Saugatuck, MichiganThe drive: 2.5 hours You know how when you’re stressed out, people say, “Think about your happy place”? When I think of mine, I imagine sitting on my yoga mat on a wide wood-planked deck overlooking Lake Michigan, listening to the waves and the birds and taking in the deep blue of the water. ... Read more ..read more
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2d ago
From the ideal spot for sweeping coastal views to a pastry paradise, these 12 Lake Michigan destinations are perfect for getting away from it all ..read more
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Indiana Dunes National ParkThe drive: 1 hour Indiana Dunes National Park is a Rust Belt kind of wild space: understated but beautiful, a lonely stretch of delicately brown, grassy sand dunes that overlook a lakefront distant from the Chicago skyline visible, in miniature, across the way. But that’s not what pulls me there. Behind those ... Read more ..read more