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Some say it’s from another planet, but we know it came from right here in #PureMichigan.
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So much Pride. #AllGrit
THE HUNT CONTINUES
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Now entering the land of frozen trees at Presque Isle Park, Marquette. ❄️ 📸: Instagram fan jacquedwards #PureMichiganWinter #PureMichigan #LakeSuperior
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That's for you, Detroit 💙 #AllGrit
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Drone footage captured this frozen lighthouse and jetty in Saint Joseph, Michigan, after they were turned into giant ice sculptures amid frigid temperatures on Christmas Day.
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This beautiful photo was taken in #Petoskey just yesterday. 🍁 Use #PureMichiganChat and #FallFilter to tell us where you're going this weekend to view fall color like this! #PureMichigan 📸: Instagram fan lolahelka #westmichigan #petoskeyarea @PetoskeyArea
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Welcome to the #FreshCoast, Oliver.
I’m from #California and it’s beautiful and everything, but I’m not sorry to admit that #Michigan actually has more beautiful beaches and nature areas (and way fewer people visiting them) 🤫
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Here's your chance to win a relaxing weekend for 2 via @TraverseCity! To enter, "like" this tweet + be sure your Twitter account is public! We'll be choosing a winner at random after the sweepstakes ends tonight at 10p. Rules: michigan.org/contest #PlanForVacation @GTResort
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The Northern Lights put on an unforgettable show this past weekend. 📸: Instagram Fan chase_gagnon 📸: Instagram Fan swnaturephoto 📸: Instagram Fan mackenzierowanphoto 📸: Instagram Fan jeffbaursphotography #PureMichigan #DarkSkies
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Happy 180th birthday, #PureMichigan! What do you love about our beautiful state?
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Here's your chance to win a beer-filled weekend getaway via @ExperienceGR! To enter, "like" this tweet + be sure your Twitter account is public! We'll be choosing a winner at random after the sweepstakes ends tonight at 10p. Rules: michigan.org/contest #PlanForVacation
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AI couldn’t generate a better “fall” image if it tried.
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Congratulations, @UMichFootball! 🏆 #GoBlue
Perfection! The Michigan Wolverines are national champions! #GoBlue
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It’s the first official day of winter. The Mighty Mac is ready. 📸: Instagram fan michiganartist #PureMichigann #MackinacBridge
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Meanwhile in northern Michigan... we make our own spring! 🌷😂 📸: Instagram fans juliekelleytv at Wildwood Rush in Boyne City | #PureMichigan #LetsWinter @PetoskeyArea
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Here's your chance to win a fun, hip weekend getaway via @visitannarbor! To enter, "like" this tweet + be sure your Twitter account is public! We'll be choosing a winner at random after the sweepstakes ends tonight at 10p. Rules: michigan.org/contest #PlanForVacation
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#MakeMeSmileIn3Words - Michigan fall drives.
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Here's your chance to win a fun family weekend getaway via @gogreatlakesbay! To enter, "like" this tweet + be sure your Twitter account is public! We'll be choosing a winner at random after the sweepstakes ends tonight at 10p. Rules: michigan.org/contest #PlanForVacation
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Detroit was built for this. #NFLDraft
Over 775,000 fans in attendance. Detroit, thank you for a record-setting #NFLDraft. 🫡
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The skies over Grand Haven sure are pretty in pink! 💖 📸: Bill Klouw #PureMichigan #SundaySunset @VisitGrandHaven
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CHAMPIONS! 🏆
WE ARE ON TOP OF THE COLLEGE HOCKEY WORLD! NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!! #BroncosReign
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GRIT wins. Again. #OnePride
🗣 Alexa, order another W #OnePride
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Holy moly, incredible view of the annular solar eclipse rising behind the mighty Mackinac Bridge in Michigan just now🤩🌙 ⚙️/⬇️/🖼: tmahlmann.com/photos/Places/…
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Leaves like colorful confetti sweep across southeast Michigan! Fall sure is a party in #PureMichigan. 🎉 📸: Instagram fan @eolsen813 in Romulus #FallFilter #VisitDetroit @VisitDetroit
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Flying high in the Motor City. 📸: Instagram Fan michiganskymedia #PureMichigan #VisitDetroit
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Happy 60th Birthday to our Mighty Mac! On Friday, Nov 1, 1957 the famed 5-mile #MackinacBridge was open to traffic. puremi.ch/2xLxfNm
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Happy 188th birthday, Michigan!
🎉Happy Birthday, Michigan!🎉 Here's to Michigan's natural wonders and the people who care for them! 💚
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The skies over #GrandHaven sure are pretty in pink! 💖 📸: Bill Klouw #PureMichigan #VisitGrandHaven #SundaySunset @VisitGrandHaven
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50 years later, the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald still echoes across Lake Superior. Remembering the 29 crew members who never made it home. 🕯️
50 years ago tonight the lake freighter #EdmundFitzgerald, caught in a ferocious storm on Lake Superior, sank without a distress call. Learn more about the Fitzgerald and why shipwreck preservation is vital to our understanding of the past: miplace.org/historic-preserv…
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.@VisitGrandHaven to see this view in all its glory. @wx8 captured this aerial shot over Lake Michigan.
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Happy 61st Birthday to our Mighty Mac! On Nov. 1, 1957 the famed 5-mile #MackinacBridge was opened to traffic. 📸: @NeilWeaverPhoto #PureMichigan #MakeItMackinaw @MackinawCityMi
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When the lake glows right before the night. 📸: Instagram fan wiltser2 #PureMichigan #MarlLake #MichiganSunset
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Ask and #Yoopers shall receive.
The Yoopers have spoken, I now have my own @MountainDew bottle.
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The sun also rises. ☀️
Presque Isle, you’ve outdone yourself.
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#FallFilter: engage. 🍁
Saturday in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan...Autumn is alive.
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Hear our roar from across the country! Go @Lions! 🏈 #PureMichigan #AllGrit #OnePride #DetroitLions
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Just one? We prefer **two** peninsulas. #OnePureMichigan
i'm a peninsula
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Did you know you can ice skate and enjoy the beauty of nature on a 1/4 mile ice skating trail in Muskegon?! Check out @lugemuskegon for more info. ⛸ 📸: @TheAdventureMom #PureMichiganWinter
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Today, we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of @SleepingBearNPS! Join in on appreciating 50 years by sharing your favorite photos and memories of this four-season #PureMichigan gem in the replies. #SleepingBear50
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Fabulous fall colors take to the sky in this stellar #SundaySunset in @VisitGrandHaven! 🌅 📸: Bob Peskorse Jr. #PureMichiganScenicRoute
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"The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times..." Remembering "The Fitz" and those lost Nov. 10, 1975.
(1/3): On this day 45 years ago, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter, sank in a Lake Superior storm 17 miles north/northwest of Whitefish Point, MI on 11/10/1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29..... Cont....
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Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the sinking of great SS Edmund Fitzgerald. We remember & honor the 29 sailors lost to that powerful Lake Superior storm. puremi.ch/2iLpY9J #PureMichigan
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“You can frame a moment. But you can’t frame life.” - Armin Housman 🌅 📸: Instagram fan d3.imagery at The Mackinac Bridge #PureMichigan #MackinacBridge @MackinawCityMi
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When #MackinacIsland’s lilacs are in bloom, it’s a sure sign that summer will be here soon. #PureMichigan #MyMackinac #UpperPeninsula #UPTravel
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A serene sunset over #LakeMichigan, courtesy of @goodhart49737. 🙌🌅 #PureMichigan #LaborDay
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The deep blue of an autumn #PureMichigan sky. #FallFilter 📸: Instagram fan arunkumar.23k #PureMichigan #OaklandCounty #FallColors @visitdetroit
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Happy birthday, #MightyMac! The @mackinacbridge began officially welcoming traffic 63 years ago today. 📸: Instagram fan imthomasbutcher #PureMichigan #MyMackinac #UpperPeninsula @UPTravel @mackinacisle
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Pancakes aren't just for the griddle! Have you witnessed pancake ice roll in on the Great Lakes? 📸: Insta fan the_life_of_lunabear in Luna Pier #PureMichiganWinter
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Who’s ready? #AllGrit
This is for Detroit
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Close out the weekend with this serene #SundaySunset over #LakeMichigan courtesy of @goodhart49737! 🌅 #PureMichigan
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How ‘bout it, @YouTube? TWO peninsulas, #OnePureMichigan.
Hello @youtube, My name is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I'm a beautiful place with a National Park and National Lakeshore on the greatest lake of all-time. I am 30% of Michigan's landmass and I am missing from your map. So call me maybe?
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Colors by #PureMichigan.
No filter needed. ☀️🥰 A perfect @puremichigan night.
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Meanwhile in Michigan... ...the world's largest freshwater sand dunes offer spectacular views of Lake Michigan, which is the fourth-largest freshwater lake in the world. #PureMichigan #FindYourPark @SleepingBearNPS
Dramatic sandy bluffs slope down 400 feet to the cool, blue waters of #LakeMichigan @SleepingBearNPS #Michigan #FindYourPark
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The Great Lakes State. America’s high five. The Mitten. Whatever you call it, today is National Michigan Day so we’re here to celebrate everything within our two pleasant peninsulas. 📸: Pure Michigan and Dotdash Meredith #PureMichigan #KeepItFresh
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The red sky is a dramatic scene in Grand Haven. 📷: @GetRealJC
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We thought this photo of a summer sunset in Leland's Fishtown by Gary Ennis was a perfect fit for #SunsetSunday. Did you capture a photo of this evening's sunset? Do you have a photo of another #PureMichigan sunset you'd like to share? Reply and tag it with #SunsetSunday.
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Sometimes the journey is just as good as the destination. 📸: Instagram fan lykes_camera_action #PureMichigan #KeepSummerFresh #LakesAppreciationMonth
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Make it pink! No, make it blue! Whichever color you choose, this sunset sure is stunning! 📸: @Scuttabout on Lake Columbia #PureMichigan
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Help us in wishing a happy birthday to the city of #Detroit! 315 has never looked so good. #DetroitComebackCity
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Skating away in Marquette. ⛸🏒
Had to return for an evening skate. And probably tomorrow for a sunrise skate. And a lunch skate. And a dinner skate. And a sunset skate.
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Today marks the 43nd anniversary of the sinking of great SS Edmund Fitzgerald. We remember & honor the 29 sailors lost to that powerful Lake Superior storm. #PureMichigan @travelmarquette @munising @VisitTheSault
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Talk about #FallFilter.
Michigan is beautiful. 🍁 @PureMichigan
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"A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye." - Unknown. 📸: Instagram fan eddyg near @PetoskeyArea #PureMichigan #FallFilter #petoskeyarea
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Roll call! Tell us where you’re tweeting from today. 📸: adventuremom | #PureMichiganChat #PureMichigan #LetsWinter
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With an autumn view like this, Laughing Whitefish Falls is worth the trip! 📸: Instagram fan @mitten_expedition #PureMichigan
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Who needs the tropics when you have #PureMichigan? 📸: seanmulliken on Instagram @PicturedRocksNL #PicturedRocksNL #picturedrocks #upperpeninsula #uptravel
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A beautiful day on the shores of Grand Haven.
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Birds of a feather flock together. Be on the lookout for bright red Cardinals, and other snowy birds as you venture out this #PureMichigan winter. ❤️ 📸: Instagram fan rkramer62 on Sandy Hansen Trail in Grandville #LetsWinter
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Good morning! #TGIF
Good morning from the @MackinacBridge and happy Friday!
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It’s that time of year again! #PureMichiganScenicRoute 🍂
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Help us in congratulating the @DetroitRedWings & @DetroitPistons on making the playoffs! #LGRW #DetroitBasketball
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We love #GrandRapids' Blue Bridge, in all its many colors! ❤️ 💛 💚 💙 💜 📸: Instagram fan willgrphotography #PureMichigan @experiencegr
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When the calm, cold water reflects like a mirror, you're in for a breathtaking Pure Michigan sunset. 📸: Instagram fan inspiredbymovement #PureMichigan #WhiteLake #oaklandcounty #visitdetroit #depictthed @visitdetroit
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Roll call! Tell us where you’re tweeting from today. #PureMichiganChat #PureMichigan #LetsWinter | 📸: Instagram fan adventuremom
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How "apple-ing" does a trip to the cider mill sound? Check out these mills for the perfect #PureMichigan fall day. 🍎
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🍁#FallFilter in full effect. 🍁
BRILLIANT COLORS: Drone footage gives us a very scenic overlook of Michigan's Tahquamenon Falls as fall foliage hits its stride. abcn.ws/36HD4zx
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Time flies when you're having fun especially at the #Detroit @tigers home opener, an unofficial #Michigan holiday marking the beginning of summer for many Michiganders. ⚾️ 🐅 📸: @DistrictDetroit #PureMichigan #LetsGoTigers #MotorOn
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Have you seen the #NorthernLights in the #DarkSkies above #PureMichigan this weekend? Reply with your photo(s) and we’ll retweet a few of our favorites! 📷: @tomjonesfoto at #CrispPointLighthouse #UpperPeninsula
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With views like this, it's easy to fall in love with the season in Pure Michigan. 🍂 📸: Instagram fan keribootheoutdoorphotography #BigManistiqueLake #ManistiqueLake #upperpeninsula @UPTravel
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Turquoise waters and ruby red trees, we're loving this color combination at Sleeping Bear Dunes! 📸: @TraverseCity #PureMichigan #NikonFallMI
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“The icy sky at night.” #AuroraBorealis
The northern lights were spectacular last night in Michigan. These were taken at Whitefish Point. Haven’t even touched the best shots. #Auroraborealis #northernlights #PureMichigan #SonyAlpha @TamithaSkov @TweetAurora @ReedTimmerAccu @spann #StormHour #BeAlpha
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Roll call! Tell us where you’re tweeting from today. #PureMichiganChat
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Who's ready for a summer trip to Mackinac? 👋 We can taste the fudge already! 📸: Nicole Lenneman #PureMichigan @MackinawCityMi @mackinacisle
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We're still in awe. 1. dwbratt via Instagram 2. northern_territory_imaging via Instagram 3. up.north_images via Instagram #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #DarkSkies
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ALL are welcome in #PureMichigan.
A message to all LGBTQ+ Americans and their allies who feel unsafe and unwanted in their state: Michigan would like a word. YOU BELONG HERE! Happy Pride to all! #Pride #PureMichigan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Sleeping Bear Dunes at sunset, a #PureMichigan bucket list item for sure. 📸: @sebphotog #sleepingbeardunes #sunset
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In #PureMichigan, we love waking up to a serene sunrise... and maybe a cup of coffee. 😊 What's your favorite way to start the day? 📸: @wpbf_erin in #Brighton
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