Great Lakes

“Above the fruited plain!”

(Pictures and places in bold are places I have been to.)

Fort Mackinac and Marquette Park
Fort Mackinac and Marquette Park
South Haven Lighthouse
South Haven Lighthouse along the Michigan Riviera

Michigan

1. Mackinac

2. Sleeping Bear Dunes Country

3. Michigan Riviera

4. Detroit and the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village (MotorCities National Heritage Area)

5. Isle Royale National Park

6. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (Chapel Rock – America the Beautiful quarter image)

7. Keweenaw National Historical Park

8. Tahquamenon Falls Country


Cave Point County Park, Door County
Cave Point County Park, Door County
Dells of the Wisconsin River State Natural Area
Dells of the Wisconsin River State Natural Area

Wisconsin

1. Door County

Honorable mentions: Wisconsin Dells, America’s Dairyland countryside, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin in Spring Green and Herbert and Katherine Jacobs First House in Madison (part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site)


Downtown Saint Paul
Downtown Saint Paul

Minnesota

1. Minneapolis-Saint Paul

2. Voyageurs National Park (America the Beautiful quarter image)

Honorable mentions: North Shore and Itasca State Park (Headwaters of the Mississippi River)


Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain, Chicago
Postville Courthouse State Historic Site
Postville Courthouse State Historic Site

Illinois

1. Chicago (including: Chicago Early Skyscrapers – World Heritage Tentative List; Frank Lloyd Wright’s Frederick C. Robie House and Unity Temple – part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site)

2. Land of Lincoln

3. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (a World Heritage Site)

Honorable mention: Shawnee National Forest (Camel Rock – America the Beautiful quarter image)


Indiana Dunes State Park
Indiana Dunes State Park, Indiana
Bridgeton Covered Bridge and Bridgeton Mill, Parke County, Indiana
Bridgeton Covered Bridge and Bridgeton Mill, Parke County, Indiana

Indiana

1. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and State Park

2. Parke County Covered Bridges

3. Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Race – Racing Country

Honorable mentions: Architecture of Columbus, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park (America the Beautiful quarter image), and South Bend, Saint Joseph County


Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Serpent Mound, Serpent Mound State Memorial
Serpent Mound State Memorial, Ohio

Ohio

1. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park (World Heritage Tentative List)

2. Serpent Mound State Memorial and Hopewell Culture National Historical Park (both on World Heritage Tentative List)

3. Cuyahoga Valley National Park

Honorable mention: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial (America the Beautiful quarter image)