M-22 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan. It is 116.7 miles long and follows the Lake Michigan shoreline of the Leelanau Peninsula, making up a portion of the Lake Michigan Circle
Marker at Good Harbor, south of Leland
Crossing into Traverse City
Fall colors along M-22 south of Leland, October 2015
M-22 crossing the 45th parallel near Suttons Bay
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a U.S. national lakeshore in the northwestern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Located within Benzie and Leelanau counties, the park extends along a 35-mile stret
M-22 (Michigan highway)
…and follows the Lake Michigan shoreline of the Leelanau Peninsula, making up a portion of the Lake Michigan Circle Tour. It also passes through the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The highway is U-shaped as it rounds the peninsula running through tourist areas in Leland and Suttons Bay in addition to the national lakeshore. M-22…
Dunes rising above Lake Michigan from Platte Point
Various smaller dunes located within the park
Looking south from Sleeping Bear Bluff toward Empire Bluff
View of the dunes with people for scale, showing the sheer size of the dunes