Golf in Manistique

Manistique is the county seat of Schoolcraft County in the central Upper Peninsula on the northern shore of Lake Michigan, a small city whose papermill history and Kitch-iti-kipi spring—Michigan's largest natural spring, in Palms Book State Park—draw visitors to a part of the UP that sees less traffic than the Marquette or Mackinac-Straits corridors. Schoolcraft County's remoteness and the Big Spring's distinctive turquoise water give Manistique a modest but genuine tourist draw in a county whose population has declined as the timber and paper industries contracted. Golf near Manistique serves the modest local market of a central UP county seat on Lake Michigan.