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Gold Coast

They don't call it the Gold Coast for nothing. Michigan's 300-mile western shoreline features seemingly endless stretches of beaches, dunes, wineries, orchards and inn-filled towns that boom during the summer – and shiver during the snow-packed winter.

Golden beach grass on sand dunes beside Lake Michigan at sunset along Michigan's Gold Coast, waves rolling in under clouds

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