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Home Depot Hours Grand Haven Mi
Secrets. Anybody has them. Some will be shared. But some will break bound in the basement forever.
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Today, The Herald-Palladium is absolute a few of its secrets. With alone a ages of summer left, we are administration 10 of Southwest Michigan best-kept secrets.
An breadth as accomplished as ours has abundant to offer, but if you are attractive for one aftermost weekend action for the ancestors afore academy starts, try one of these.
-- Drive-in cine theaters
If it's a aftertaste of Rockwellian Americana you continued for, attending no added than the drive-in.
Southwest Michigan is different in that it is home to two: Sunset Drive-In and 5-Mile Drive-In. With as few as 10 drive-in theaters still accessible in the state, accepting two adjacent is a luxury.
Both are endemic by Neal and Glenda Edwards, and the drive-ins affection playgrounds and abounding acknowledgment stands for a family-friendly caliginosity experience.
What: Sunset Drive-In
Where: 69017 Red Arrow Highway, Hartford
When: Fridays-Sundays, May-October
Cost: $15 per carload
Contact: 621-4194, sunsetdriveinhartford@yahoo.com
Online: www.sunsetdriveinsouthwestmi.com
What: 5-Mile Drive-In
Where: 28190 M-152, Dowagiac
When: Fridays-Sundays, June-October
Cost: $15 per carload
Contact: 782-7879, fivemiledriveindowagiac@yahoo.com
Online: www.5-miledriveinsouthwestmi.com
-- Rocky Gap Canton Park
This baby canton esplanade is arguably Berrien County's quietest Lake Michigan beach. Albino shores at Tiscornia Park, Silver Bank Canton Park, Lions Esplanade Bank and Jean Klock Esplanade allure best of the visitors to the St. Joseph area, abrogation Rocky Gap for alone those who apperceive its clandestine location. It doesn't accept a amphitheater or bathrooms, but parking in the small, partly-shaded lot is chargeless and alone a abbreviate airing from the beach.
What: Rocky Gap Canton Park
Where: 1100 Rocky Gap Road, Benton Harbor
When: Dawn-dusk, April-October
Cost: Free
Contact: 983-7111, ext. 8435 (Berrien Canton Parks Commission)
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Online: www.berriencounty.org/parks/?dept=1&pid=192
-- Children's workshops
For the little boy or babe in your ancestors who loves to comedy with hammers, attending no added than Lowe's and Home Depot. The home advance food periodically host chargeless workshops for the little ones. Home Depot's Kids Workshop affairs is offered the aboriginal Saturday of the month, while Lowe's Build and Grow affairs is offered sporadically (generally every added weekend). First-time participants accept chargeless aprons and a pin or iron-on patch, forth with their board creation.
What: Lowe's Build and Grow
Where: 1300 Mall Drive, Benton Harbor
When: 10 a.m. Saturdays or 2 p.m. Sundays (see website for dates)
Cost: Chargeless (online registration)
Contact: 927-6000
Online: www.lowesbuildandgrow.com
What: Home Depot Kids Workshop
Where: 2075 Pipestone Road, Benton Harbor
When: 9 a.m.-noon, aboriginal Saturday of month
Cost: Chargeless (online registration)
Contact: 926-2173
Online: workshops.homedepot.com
-- Grand Mere Accompaniment Park
Hike the dunes, tan on the beach, go for a bathe or plan a picnic. The bank is usually a quiet one, but it's acceptable due in allotment to the bank dunes amid the parking lot and the beach. If you appointment during the summer, bethink the bank will be hot and the bugs will be out in abounding force.
Be able for a backpack to ability Lake Michigan's albino shores.
If you are added of a fisherman, Grand Mere Accompaniment Esplanade offers a mile of Lake Michigan bank and three civil lakes - one with a baiter launch.
What: Grand Mere Accompaniment Park
Where: Thornton Drive, Stevensville
When: Dawn-dusk, year-round
Cost: Recreation Passport appropriate ($11 annually)
Contact: 426-4013 (Warren Dunes Accompaniment Park)
Online: www.michigan.gov/grandmere
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-- Eden Springs Park
Work is advanced as Eden Springs Esplanade makes its way through its additional abounding division at the Abode of David. Take the kids for a ride on the miniature, gas-powered alternation Saturday afternoon, or acknowledgment Sunday to ride the steam-powered engine.
The esplanade is gluttonous funds to abide extending the clue and to restore the No. 7 Boiler - the aboriginal agent delivered to the Abode of David antecedents added than 100 years ago.
Rides are abbreviate - about four account - but will get best in advancing years as axle assignment is completed. Each addition receives a ticket, which the aqueduct punches with a custom, train-shaped punch.
What: Eden Springs Park
Where: 793 M-139, Benton Harbor
When: Noon-5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays
Cost: $2 per ride
Contact: 927-3302, edenspringspark@gmail.com
Online: www.edenspringspark.com
-- Ross Coastal Plain Marsh Preserve
Get abroad from it all and get absent at the about 1,450-acre attributes bottle in Covert Township. According to the Attributes Conservancy, the bottle is home to eight breed of flora that are either endangered or rare. The bottle contains abounding dunes, wetlands, lakes and one of the better unfragmented balk forests in southern Michigan. The breadth is accomplished for birding and additionally allows deer hunting, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing after in the year. Just accomplish abiding you carpool with your friends, because there are alone two parking spots.
What: Ross Coastal Plain Marsh Preserve
Where: Parking off CR-376 (44th Avenue), Covert
When: Whenever
Cost: Free
Contact: 517-316-0300 (Nature Conservancy acreage office), michigan@tnc.org
Online: www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/michigan/placesweprotect/ross-coastal-plain-marsh-preserve.xml
-- Harbor Habitat for Humanity Restore
Who doesn't adulation accepting added for less? That's absolutely what will appear if you boutique at the Habitat Restore. The abundance draws in barter by affairs home and architecture items for 50 to 75 percent off accustomed prices. Want to acquisition an old aperture to rehab? They accept them. Want a couch for that basement blast pad? They accept them. Want a new set of shutters for the house? They accept them.
Besides quality, acclimated items, the abundance additionally sells some new items. The banal is unpredictable, but it turns over often.
What: Harbor Habitat for Humanity Restore
Where: 2302 Plaza Drive, Benton Harbor
When: Call for hours
Contact: 927-0006
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Online: www.harborhabitat.org
-- Harbor Shores recreation
It's the Jack Nicklaus-designed golf advance that anybody remembers, but allotment of Harbor Shores' charter with Benton Harbor included the accumulation of attributes trails. Asphalt, sand, accurate and alluvium paths action running, biking, skiing and snowshoeing opportunities for the public.
The best allotment about the added than 12 afar of paths? They are chargeless to use. If you get annoyed of walking, hire a canoe or kayak and analyze the acreage aquatically.
What: Harbor Shores attributes trails, canoeing/kayaking
Where: 201 Graham Ave., Benton Harbor (Harbor Shores clubhouse); 200 Upton Drive, St. Joseph (rentals)
When: Trails - accessible daily; kayaks/canoes - 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays
Cost: Trails - free, Rentals - $20 per being (for two hours)
Contact: 927-4653 (clubhouse), 985-3747 (rentals), info@harborshorespaddle.com
Online: www.harborshoreslife.com/nature-trails.html, www.harborshoreslife.com/HarborShoresCanoeKayak.html
-- Hidden Pointe
While it isn't absolutely hidden - you can see it from the artery - Hidden Pointe offers hours of family-friendly fun. Arch outdoors for mini golf, go-kart racing, batting cages and JumpShot basketball. When you're
done, air-conditioned off central with arcade amateur and a beat of Sherman's ice cream. If music is added your thing, arch over to the accident centermost for accessible jam Thursdays, blah aperture and a algid brew.
What: Hidden Pointe
Where: 1062 Nickerson Ave., Benton Harbor
When: Fun esplanade (summer hours) - 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays, noon-11 p.m. Sundays; accident centermost - 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Thursdays (check website for added events)
Cost: Mini golf, $4.50-$6; go-karts, $6; batting cages, $1 per token; JumpShot basketball, $3.50
Contact: 926-1358, acquaintance through website
Online: www.hiddenpointe.net
-- Bear Cavern Resort
Want to go spelunking but aren't abiding breadth to do it? Analysis out Bear Cavern in Buchanan. The resort bills itself as the alone cavern in the Great Lakes area. See stalactites and abashed leaves in the 15-foot abysmal cave, which was already allotment of the Underground Railroad.
What: Bear Cavern Resort
Where: 4085 N. Red Bud Trail, Buchanan
When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m., daily, May-October
Cost: $3 adults, $2 children, chargeless for accouchement beneath 5
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Contact: 695-3050
Online: www.thousandtrails.com/getaways/michigan/bearcave.asp
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