Sunrise Coast Council
Publisher · Editorial
The publisher of record for visitsunrisecoast.com. A small editorial group focused on the Michigan eastern shore. Replace this card with named editor bios when the public team page is ready.
The editors behind Michigan's Sunrise Coast.
The Sunrise Coast Council is the editorial publisher of this guide — a small editorial team focused on Michigan's 200-mile Lake Huron shoreline. We write from the road, fact-check against primary sources, and update each guide season by season.
Editorial mission.
Sunrise Coast Council publishes visitsunrisecoast.com, an independent travel guide to Michigan's eastern Lake Huron shoreline. Our mission is to give travelers practical, locally-sourced trip planning — mile markers, opening hours, costs, and the small details that turn a generic road trip into a Sunrise Coast trip.
We focus on a defined geographic region: the 200 miles of US-23 north of Saginaw Bay, from Tawas to Mackinaw City. Every page is anchored to specific places, dates, and verifiable facts — not generic travel filler.
The editorial team.
The guide is written and maintained by the Sunrise Coast Council editorial team. Editor bylines are added to individual guide pages as those guides are first published or substantially revised.
How we source.
Every claim in the guide should be traceable to one of the following:
- Government data and primary sources
- Michigan DNR (parks, trails, fishing regulations, ORV trails), NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (shipwrecks, sanctuary boundary, vessel traffic), U.S. Forest Service Huron-Manistee National Forests (trail miles, campgrounds), U.S. Coast Guard (lighthouse establishment dates), U.S. Census (population figures).
- Operator-published rates and schedules
- Outfitters, lighthouse-tour operators, marinas, and event organizers — verified within the guide's last-updated date shown on each page.
- Field observations
- Mile markers, parking notes, restroom presence, cell coverage, and other on-the-ground details that change too often for static sources to keep current.
Corrections & updates.
If a fact in the guide is wrong, outdated, or your business or event is misrepresented, see contact for the editorial reach-out path. We update on a rolling basis and stamp each page with a visible "last updated" date.
For press, partnership, listings, or affiliate program inquiries, see contact.