Mackinac Redhead and the Michigan Island Most People Only Visit

Mackinac Redhead and the Michigan Island Most People Only Visit

The water around Mackinac Island slows down from traffic in November. The summer crowds are gone by then, along with the fudge-shop lines, the bicycle rental queues, and the daily ferry traffic that brings more than one million visitors across the tourist season. Eighty-two percent of the island is a state park. Most of the island shuts down for half a year. Andrea Bassett, also known as Red, stays through all of it. She is the year-round reside…