Glen Arbor is located within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Shoreline, between Glen Lake and Sleeping Bear Bay on Lake Michigan. This beautiful town is a wonderful place to spend an afternoon, exploring the village shops and art galleries and restaurants. The quaint Lake Street Studios of Glen Arbor are located on the Leelanau Peninsula and feature a different artist each week at their Gallery Center. For more action, head out to the beach and the massive sand dunes and bluffs along the Lake Michigan shoreline for a brisk afternoon of hiking and climbing. Just south of town is Glen Haven which has one of the most picturesque beaches in Michigan, and smaller sand dunes for children and those not up to the challenging dunes at Glen Arbor. Over 50,000 acres of forests, small lakes and rivers, beach and sand dunes, as well as North and South Manitou Islands make up the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Shoreline. This means unlimited possibilities for outdoors recreation, including swimming, boating, fishing, backpacking, camping, kayaking, scuba diving, snorkeling, nature walks and bike and auto tours. The old Coast Guard Lifesaving Station in Glen Arbor is now a Maritime Museum and is well worth the visit, especially for children. Other interesting sites near Glen Arbor include a lighthouse built in 1871 and a very extensive, historic farm district. And, the Sleeping Bear Dunegrass & Blues Festival, one of Northern Michigan’s largest and liveliest festivals, is held in August in the nearby town of Empire.