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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
that might be a difference between lake erie and lake michigan's eastern shore.
all of the touristy lake towns along michigan's west coast (new buffalo, st. joeseph, south haven, saugatuck, grand haven, etc.) have actual beaches, and giant sand dunes in many places, to boot.
in fact, the beaches/dunes are actually the main draw that makes those towns touristy in the first place.
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Yeah, Lake Erie was/is the "industrial" Great Lake. It was never the cute, little beach town type of setting... more like mills, shipping, factories, railroads, etc. I mean, you obviously have the big industrial production places like Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, Erie, Buffalo ringing the southern shore, but even the smaller places like Sandusky, Ashtabula, Conneaut, Dunkirk, etc. were industrial centers. It was right in the heart of American industrial might. Cities and towns were there for a purpose... and it wasn't for vacation
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Originally Posted by Crawford
So I don't know how we're defining "a lot" but I've never heard of a Michigander going to Ohio for Great Lakes beaches. I mean, that doesn't make sense, unless your family has a legacy cottage or something. Lake Erie has a less-than-stellar rep. in Michigan (which may not be entirely fair).
Michiganders, overwhelmingly, go Up North for lakes/beaches. They don't go south for such things. Ohio's big attraction is Cedar Point.
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I wouldn't think they go to Ohio for the beaches either, since Ohio's actual beaches are relatively few, small, and far inferior to Michigan's. And the western portion of Lake Erie isn't good terms of water quality, so I can't imagine people really wanting to do much beach time there. I was just saying that people from Detroit area seem to frequent Put-in-Bay, Lake Erie Islands, Cedar Point, etc.... for the boating, amusement park, "party atmosphere". That's what I've heard at least.