Senses will be on full alert in these sanctuaries of silence, 10 getaways in which quiet is interrupted only by flowing water, the squeak of snow or the pop and sizzle of your in-room fireplace.
Book the North Woods Room ($199) at Horton Creek Inn—a three-story log lodge near Charlevoix—and snuggling by your in-room fire with a good book, maybe a soak in the whirlpool tub for two, are the agenda highlights after a hike amid the snowy pines.
Watch Lake Huron waves from an outdoor hot tub as snowflakes drift: priceless. The signature breakfast at Huron House Bed and Breakfast near Oscoda, delivered to your door, is a good perk too. From $189.
There are no signs of people —cars either—in Petoskey’s Bay View neighborhood in winter, when the Victorian cottages are shuttered, roads kept unplowed and silent save for the jingling horses and sleighs offering rides each Saturday night. Take a snowy stroll or just hunker in by the fire on February’s Winter Wonderland Getaway packages, $238 a couple for two nights, dinner for two included.
This story is from the February 2017 edition of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine.
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