About this city
Also known as: Land of the Million Dollar Sunsets
Petoskey is a historic, exceptionally elegant coastal resort metropolis positioned beautifully on the steep limestone terraces overlooking the southern waters of Little Traverse Bay on Lake Michigan. Incorporated in 1879 and named to honor a legendary native Ottawa Indian chief, 'Bidassige Sanquat Petosega,' the town rapidly transformed into an exclusive Gilded Age summer colony via historic rail lines. Petoskey boasts a flawlessly preserved, brick-paved historic Gaslight Shopping District and is globally famous for housing the richest deposits of prehistoric fossilized coral stones on Earth.
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Suggested stay: 1–3 days
Shop for high-end Victorian antiques inside the historic Gaslight District, comb the limestone shingle beaches at Petoskey State Park for authentic fossilized Petoskey stones, and bike the Little Traverse Wheelway.
