FROM THE BLOSSOMING LILACS

that adorn her in the spring and the warm summer days and nights, to the fall colors that envelop her and the elegant ice formations that cover her in the winter, she’s a timeless classic, and a photographer’s playground. Whether it’s to capture a sunrise, sunset or the night sky (Point Betsie is a favorite spot for capturing the Milky Way and northern lights), it’s really the surrounding landscape that makes this lighthouse a photogenic gem.”

–Sarah Goodwin

IF YOU’VE BEEN

to Point Betsie, you know that as soon as you walk away from the road and toward the Lake Michigan beach, the rest of the world sort of just fades away. I’m in this fairytale-looking place with incredibly colorful turquoise-blue water, hearing the waves lap on the shore and thinking of what it would have been like to traverse the waters out from Frankfort and around the northern coast of Michigan long ago.”

–Trevor Mahlmann

by Elizabeth Edwards