Mackinac State Historic Parks

Mackinac State Historic Parks is a family of living history museums and nature parks in northern Michigan’s Straits of Mackinac and is an agency within the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Its sites—which are accredited by the American Association of Museums—include Fort Mackinac, The Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum, Biddle House, featuring the Mackinac Island Native American Museum, the Benjamin Blacksmith Shop, the American Fur Co. Store & Dr. Beaumont Museum, McGulpin House, and Mackinac Island State Park on Mackinac Island, and Colonial Michilimackinac, Dousman’s Mill, Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, and Michilimackinac State Park in Mackinaw City.

Combined attendance is 1.2 million people each year. The living history sites are open daily from early May to early October. The natural history sites are open year round.