Highlights Tour: Explore Sleeping Bear Dunes Your Way

Celebrate fall’s fiery spirit. Experience fall like never before with Sleeping Bear Tour Co., where passionate guides and eco-conscious adventures unite.

Sleeping Bear Dunes Highlights Tour

🍂 A Private Fall Experience Like No Other

When autumn arrives in northern Michigan, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore transforms into a wonderland of fiery reds, golden yellows, and deep oranges. This season, experience the beauty your way with our brand-new Sleeping Bear Dunes Highlights Tour.

Experience the best of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on our customizable Highlights Tour.

Guests choose how they explore: either embark on a private guided hike through scenic trails or ride along guide in your vehicle to visit iconic overlooks and breathtaking vistas. This flexible approach allows you to set the pace while discovering the park’s most memorable landscapes, hidden gems, and stunning Pure Michigan scenery. Can’t decide? No worry, stay longer and include a hike with your roadway travels!

How the Highlights Tour Works

Our Highlights Tour puts you in control:

  • Private Hike Option: Walk with a guide along trails that highlight forested landscapes, dune overlooks, and unique natural features.

  • Ride-Along Option: Let your guide navigate while you enjoy a comfortable drive through the park’s top vistas, learning fascinating stories and park history along the way. Make the most of your visit and head directly to the highlights!

  • Custom Experience: Choose stops and pacing based on your group’s interests, making this tour perfect for families, couples, or solo explorers.

Why Choose Our Highlights Tour

The Highlights Tour is designed for travelers who want a personalized experience. Whether hiking or driving, you’ll explore the park’s most famous and hidden spots while enjoying the stories, natural history, and breathtaking views that make Sleeping Bear Dunes a must-see destination.

  • Private Experience – Just your family, friends, or group.

  • Hike or Ride-Along Guide – Expert knowledge and storytelling to enrich every step or mile.

  • Flexibility – Stay longer where you want, skip what you don’t connect to.

  • Stress-Free – Quiet trails on walks, no maps, no wrong turns, no missed highlights if driving.

Tour Details

  • Duration: 3 hours or more (flexible based on your choices)

  • Group Size: Private tour, up to 10 guests

  • Accessibility: Ride-along option suitable for all mobility levels, allows children to be in their own car seat.

  • What’s Provided: Expert guide, maps, interpretive insights

  • What to Bring: Curiosity!

Reserve Your Tour

Reserve your Highlights Tour today and design your perfect day in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Whether on foot or in your vehicle, this guided experience ensures you see the park your way.

🍂 Private. Flexible. Unforgettable.

Take in the spectacle

Read more about each experience by selecting a tour type below:

Seasonal Offering - Select #2 Forest

Take in the mesmerizing tapestry of vibrant hues complemented by the blue waters of Lake Michigan as you explore along the roadways in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Add an hour to your drive and take a walk within the tapestry.

Scenic autumn landscape with a path leading through grassy dunes to a calm lake. Vibrant trees with red and orange foliage line the shore, under a partly cloudy sky.

A kaleidoscope of color.

An immersive adventure combining personalized attention and sustainable travel, preserving the pristine beauty you’re here to witness.

As the landscape bursts with fiery hues, our expert guides lead you to the season’s best views. Embrace stunning panoramas and fall’s grand spectacle with a Sleeping Bear Tour Co. ride along guide.

This nature-focused tour presents you with a treasure trove of information, shedding light on Anishinaabe history, migratory birds, forces of glacial dynamics, and the abundant wildlife that thrives in this wondrous landscape. All from the comfort of your vehicle!

Peak color or on the cusp, it’s always inspiring.

A seasonal symphony.

View the lush greenery gradually giving way to the departure of summer. Unwind, rejuvenate, and find solace amidst the rustling leaves and crisp autumn air.

Read more about each experience by selecting a tour type below:

Seasonal Offering - Select #2 Forest

Cancellation Policy

4% credit card recovery fee for all client cancellations - zero costs to reschedule.

Client cancellations within 24 hours of tour time will not be refunded.

Cancellation by SB2r will receive a 100% refund.

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