News About Old Mission Peninsula

This page is simply sharing news about our beautiful peninsula found north of
​downtown Traverse City, in northern Michigan.

We've been voted #2 for the top 10 Northern Michigan Most Scenic Lighthouses by Traverse Magazine's Red Hot List!
Old Mission Peninsula is fortunate to have a lovely little lighthouse at the end of the peninsula that is visited by many lighthouse geeks! We ranked on the list of favorites Northern Michigan lighthouses for 2019. Second place 2 years in a row! Whoo hoo!

Shout out to Tabone Vineyards on
Old Mission Peninsula
Tabone Vineyards is proud to announce that 11 of its estate-grown wines earned medals at the prestigious Tasters Guild International Wine Judging and the Indy International Wine Competition.  MyNorth -June 2019

Kudos to our neighbor Brys Estate Winery!
Brys Estate on the Old Mission Peninsula has landed on the annual list of top 10 Hot Brands as selected by Wine Business Monthly magazine. The top 10 list is compiled from 8,000 wineries across the country.

Migrating Birds
. . . Lighthouse Park at the tip of the Old Mission Peninsula is a fantastic place to find shorebirds during spring migration, when exposed mudflats attract a spectacular variety of sandpipers and plovers. The trails in the park’s interior are home
to large numbers of forest birds, including pewees, phoebes, Red-Headed Woodpeckers, Black-Throated Green Warblers, and both Warbling and
​Red-Eyed Vireos.

March 2016 - Pure Michigan

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Photo taken by a keeper March 2016 on the lighthouse fence - our Winter resident snowy owl

Photo of a snowy owl viewing our holiday lights in the tower. January 2019

View the available video of our lighthouse and keeper program by 9&10 news here: http://www.9and10news.com/2017/05/12/hometown-tourist-mission-point-lighthouse/

Mission Point Lighthouse featured on
C-Span Traverse City Special - see the
​link below (July 2019):

https://www.c-span.org/video/?462487-1/mission-point-lighthouse

Mission Point Lighthouse Wine

This is the 2019 - 4th Mission Point Lighthouse label winner, art by local Paul LaPorte and Bower's Harbor sells coasters and prints with the artwork too! Makes a great gift.

This is the 3rd Lighthouse label art done by Ruth Kitchens and Bower's Harbor sells coasters and prints with the artwork.

Mission Point Lighthouse wine is a limited release Pinot Grigio to benefit Mission Point Lighthouse. Only sold at Bowers Harbor Vineyards

Above is the  June 2016 issue of Traverse magazine for an article about being a keeper at Mission Point Lighthouse! Get the inside scoop about staying as a volunteer at this unique Lake Michigan getaway. 

Winning contestant Robert was wearing his lucky Mission Point Lighthouse hat! (Show aired June 12, 2019 - and he won!)

Proof that the pilated woodpecker was busy finding bugs in the dead trees in our park. Several dead trees along the trails look like these. 

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For more about Mission Point Lighthouse, here is a link to a TC Tourism video on FaceBook
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https://www.facebook.com/TraverseCityTourism/videos/vb.181581846735/336220570423197/?type=2&theater