Delamar Traverse City
West Grand Traverse Bay
On the water at 615 East Front, with the only real beach-and-pool setup in town. Ask for a bay-facing room; the parking-lot side is a different hotel.
TVC · Midwest
Nonstop into Traverse City, MI
19 U.S. airports fly here without a layover, grouped by how long you'd be in the air.
Traverse City sits at the foot of two long bays, and nearly everything good about it comes from that geography. The water holds off the frost long enough for cherries and wine grapes, which is why the hills north of town are covered in both.
It has quietly become a four-season town, though the seasons are not equal. July means the cherry festival and full parking lots. September and early October are better: the bay is still warm enough to swim in, the vineyards are picking, and you can get a table without planning your week around it.
Sleeping Bear Dunes is forty minutes west and is the reason a lot of people come in the first place. Give it a full day rather than a photo stop.
19 of 19 nonstop routes
Leave after work
Under 2 hours11 citysChicago, IL
ORD · Chicago O'Hare International Airport
41m
Many flights a day
Detroit, MI
DTW · Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport
40m
About 3 flights a day
Newark, NJ
EWR · Newark Liberty International Airport
1h 39m
About one a day
Regional partners: GoJet
SeasonalNonstops out of EWR →Minneapolis, MN
MSP · Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain Field
58m
About one a day
Boston, MA
BOS · Boston Logan International Airport
1h 55m
About one a day
Washington, DC
DCA · Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
1h 30m
6 flights a week
American
SeasonalNonstops out of DCA →Charlotte, NC
CLT · Charlotte Douglas International Airport
1h 38m
6 flights a week
American
SeasonalNonstops out of CLT →Philadelphia, PA
PHL · Philadelphia International Airport
1h 36m
5 flights a week
New York, NY
LGA · LaGuardia Airport
1h 39m
5 flights a week
New Haven, CT
HVN · Tweed New Haven Airport
1h 48m
A couple of flights a week
Avelo
SeasonalNonstops out of HVN →Atlanta, GA
ATL · Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport
1h 44m
A couple of flights a week
Delta
SeasonalNonstops out of ATL →
Easy weekend
2 to 3 hours7 citysDenver, CO
DEN · Denver International Airport
2h 9m
About one a day
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
DFW · Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
2h 12m
5 flights a week
American
SeasonalNonstops out of DFW →Houston, TX
IAH · George Bush Intercontinental Airport
2h 34m
3 flights a week
Regional partners: SkyWest, Mesa
SeasonalNonstops out of IAH →Pinellas Park, FL
PIE · St. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport
2h 34m
2 flights a week
Allegiant
Punta Gorda, FL
PGD · Punta Gorda Airport
2h 48m
2 flights a week
Allegiant
SeasonalNonstops out of PGD →Orlando, FL
SFB · Orlando Sanford International Airport
2h 32m
A couple of flights a week
Allegiant
Fort Lauderdale, FL
FLL · Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport
2h 58m
A couple of flights a week
Allegiant
SeasonalNonstops out of FLL →
Long weekend
3 to 5 hours1 cityMesa, AZ
AZA · Mesa Gateway Airport
3h 11m
A couple of flights a week
Allegiant
SeasonalNonstops out of AZA →
Worth the extra days
5 hours and up0 citysNothing over five hours nonstop from here, which is normal for most Midwest airports. Hawaii and Alaska usually mean one connection.
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In Traverse City
Where to stay
Grand Traverse Resort & Spa
Acme
Twenty minutes north, three golf courses, and a glass tower with long views down the bay. Good with children, less good if you wanted to walk to dinner.
Chateau Chantal
Old Mission Peninsula
A working winery with rooms, halfway up the peninsula with water on both sides. Breakfast comes with the view.
What to do
Sleeping Bear Dunes
The Dune Climb, then the Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive. If you go down the big dune to the lake, budget an hour to get back up. People underestimate this daily and the rangers have opinions about it.
Old Mission Peninsula wineries
Eighteen miles of narrow land with the bay on both sides and about ten wineries strung along it. Riesling is what this region genuinely does well. The reds are a work in progress.
Torch Lake
Improbably turquoise. The sandbar at the south end is the entire social scene on a Saturday in July.
The Village at Grand Traverse Commons
A former state asylum turned into shops, tasting rooms and restaurants. Strange, handsome, and worth an afternoon.
Where to eat
Trattoria Stella
In the old asylum's basement at the Commons. Housemade pasta, whole-animal butchery, and one of the better wine lists in the state. Going since 2004.
The Cooks' House
Twenty-six seats and a menu built around whatever came in that week. Book it before you book the flights.
Moomers
Farm ice cream west of town, made about thirty feet from the cows. Cherries in season.
Cherry Republic, Glen Arbor
Every conceivable use of a cherry, some of them genuinely good. Conveniently on the way back from the dunes.
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