Vintage Views Along the West Michigan Pike: From Sand Trails to US-31

About this book

Vintage Views Along the West Pike: From Sand Trails to US-31 is a pictorial history of Michigans most famous road. The historic West Michigan Pike originally M-11 was the first continuous improved road between Michigan City and Mackinaw City. This route along the Lake Michigan coast opened West Michigan to automobile travel and tourism. The book depicts the adventure and romance of motoring on Michigans most prominent early highway. Vintage postcards photographs maps and ephemera illustrate this journey as you time-travel through the beautiful West Michigan landscape and quaint towns to hotels and cabins tourist camps and state parks and other stops along the road.