About Glen Arbor, Michigan (courtesy of Wikipedia)

Glen Arbor Township is a civil township of Leelanau County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 788 at the 2000 census.

Glen Arbor is a popular tourist area for a few months during the summer when the local merchants and year-round inhabitants watch the population nearly triple. Residents of Detroit, Chicago, and many other parts of the Midwest travel to Northern Michigan to enjoy the warm weather and scenic beaches. Glen Arbor is situated on a small strip of land directly between Glen Lake and Lake Michigan which allows visitors to choose from two different bodies of water from which to waterski, fish, or sunbathe. The community sits in the middle of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a federally protected park.

During the winter months only year-round inhabitants remain in the area to take advantage of outdoor winter sports. Both downhill skiing and cross-country skiing are popular pastimes along with hiking and hunting. Locals typically enjoy the cold and quiet of the winter over the crowds and noise from the tourists, locally referred to as "Fudgies" from the popularity of locally-made fudge with tourists. (See Mackinac Island for more on this term.)

Glen Arbor is home to many other small businesses that thrive off of the tourist economy.

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