17 Lake Michigan Rockhounding Beaches. Favorites and some not so much

Seventeen Lake Michigan Rockhounding Beaches from Glenn, Michigan to Petoskey. My grandson and I visited 17 beaches in three and a half days. Here is what we liked best. #Leland #Petoskey #rockhounding #agates #skipanatom #geodes #favosites #horn coral #fossils #agatized #Jollilodge #lightningstones

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

This was a fantastic grandpa/grandson trip. Yes, the rocks are great and we hope our reviews will be helpful, but the bonding was the best.

[@arthurhunt642]

Michigan rocks ! Yes it does.. I dug an 80 lb pudding stone from the side of my road that the rain washed off and partially exposed.

[@AussieRockhoundingandAdventure]

What a great trip with your grandson! Beautiful places you visited for sure, some great finds my favourite would have to be the agatized horn coral absolute beauty 🤩 thanks for sharing your adventure

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

Thanks for the comment. I see you have an interesting channel with some amazing finds of your own. I am going to check it out.

[@johnrowlette7430]

I am so glad I found your channel. Most of my rock hunting has been from Benton Harbor to Michigan City. I have circled the Lake a few times but started rock hunting in St Joe. I don't know what it is about rock hunting. Once you get hooked, its over. All you do is walk the beach with your head down. I probably have over 500 lbs of rocks and make all kinds of things with them. In the area I spoke about, snorkeling is a great way to cover a lot of area that has not been over-picked. I also made a few 5-gallon buckets with a clear piece of plexiglass that makes it easier to see the bottom, especially when you have waves coming in. I am sure you have noticed almost the veins of certain rocks in places. If you start on the beach, and then use the 5-gallon bucket and snorkel, you can find some really good stuff. I was shocked one day when I went down to the beach one morning after a BIG storm with 3-6 foot waves. I looked on the sand and all there was were huge flat black, very smooth stones. BINGO... As far as the eye could see. I felt like a kid in a candy store. Thanks for the video and I will try and watch all your videos. John

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

I too am glad your found my channel, watched and commented. I appreciate it. I am sure you have found some great rockhounding masterpieces with the buckets and snorkeling. Great ideas! A snorkeling video is surely in my future. I have the gear because I have done a lot of salt water snorkeling.

[@brightpurpleviking]

Maps and a final lineup of all of them would have been helpful, but thanks for the info!

[@billiondollardan]

We had a fight after school one day at Reynolds lol. It's funny, but I never noticed rock hunters at the beach growing up. I might have been too busy swimming, idk. It seems like it's more popular now though.

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

@@billiondollardan i have always collected rocks and arrowheads. But never on a beach until we started vacationing in Michigan.

[@diann546]

I enjoyed your video and appreciate the content. As I am now retired, I have time to roam and appreciate the list of beaches to try. I just started watching Upper Peninsula Beautiful. I am subscribed to many rock hounding sites. However, Upper Peninsula Beautiful has made it clear to me that beaches can change greatly from year to year and even down to day by day. He is the first person to say, to paraphrase: "There were rocks here last week and now there are none. "That was all sand the last time I was here and look at all the rocks now!. "There was a spit of land here 400-600 yards out and a 1/4 mi wide in to the lake last week, and now it's gone." I personally went to Van's Beach this last Wednesday or Thursday. I was all excited, as I had previously seen Michigan Rocks there. Well, there were way fewer rocks that were accessible, and I learned to really pay attention to the wind speed. The waves were pretty bad. My wading boots kept getting filled with water because of the heavy waves. I think I will have to strike out at a beach a few times before I discount it all together. I also will not set my expectations too high.

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

You are right about how the beaches change from time to time. I especially like to go to the beach after a storm or when it is raining. Bad weather tends to thin out the crowd and the rocks on the beach are wet. This year I think I will be using a snorkel to explore further out...if I can handle the cold water.🙂

[@kevinreynolds7068]

A wonderful analytic video

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

Thanks. We had a blast and my grandson just asked me a couple weeks ago if we could do a similar trip next summer, only in Lake Superior or Erie. I don't have to wonder if i wouuld like to do that.

[@karenmikola1552]

Thanks for the beach analysis! I'm from Michigan and getting ready for annual fall color and rock hounding trips. Went to Van's Beach last year but missed the others in the area so I'll have to go back!

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

My pleasure. We like Van's beach and we have found two agatized fossils there. While they are all good we concluded the beach at the end of Richards Street produces more of everything.

[@nancyhainline2517]

Loved this.

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

Thanks, it was an awesome time, and the rocks were good too.:-)

[@mollymagoon1073]

I didn't see yall go to Magoon creek beach, maybe I missed it. Awsome Video thank for sharing. 😂

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

You are right. That beach has been on my list for awhile but we just haven't made it yet. Sometime in the future, for sure.

[@reginaadkins8837]

Headed to Michigan this summer from Louisiana! Great video on where to start looking for rocks to tumble.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

I've seen no trespassing posted below the mean high water line at city parks along the lake. Pay no attention to it. All the lakes' shorelines are public to that point. Usually stops at the vertical sand cut (where sand/gravel occurs) that normal waves don't reach past and vegetation ends.

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

@@napalmholocaust9093 Thanks. Good advice.

[@AlexGervacio33]

So cool! I’m in UP right now!

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

Awesome! It's always gorgeous in the UP. No bugs to bother you up there this time of year. Thanks for watching and for the comment.

[@joniangelsrreal6262]

👁👁 Happy to drop by… 👏👏

[@Kyle.Wynsma]

I was at Antrim Creek today. Love that place

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

Are you a regular visitor there or was this your first time?

[@Kyle.Wynsma]

@@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644 my extended family lives in Ellsworth and I visit that beach a few times a year

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

@@Kyle.Wynsma What a great bonus. Visit family and get to go to a nice beach.

[@HoboMinerals]

Glenn is my favorite beach to go to.. It’s been quite eroded since this video.. And lots of rockhounds have scavenging it.. I might be one of them

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

We liked it for the fossils. I tried to be vague about its location and still include the video footage. Sorry to hear about the erosion. Erosion is both friend and foe.

[@HoboMinerals]

@@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644 I agree with the erosion.. And it’s ok, nature happens

[@theresa_lili]

Wish you would've held up the rocks to see them. Nice video

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

Thanks for the feedback. My grandson wants to go again this summer so i will try to do better. Thanks for watching and for the comment.

[@adamhuze]

Was the water warm? That snorkel was a decent idea

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

The water was warm at Leland and both the nature preserves. Up north it was pretty cold. I took my snorkel, but I didn't use it. I didn't need to. The rocks and fossils were plentiful except up north. Xander found a petoskey stone in the first few minutes almost everywhere we went. He has a good eye. We gave quite a few away or left them on the beach.

[@TheBoilingWater]

Was there a lot of mosquitos?

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

That is an excellent question because mosquitoes are the state bird of Michigan, right? But, I hasten to add, no, we didn't have any trouble with mosquitoes at all. Part of the reason could be that most of the beaches were a good distance from the woods, and that there was usually a nice breeze blowing. I have been at a beach in Wisconsin where the mosquitoes drove me off the beach, so I do know they can be a problem around Lake Michigan.

[@TheBoilingWater]

@@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644 thank you for the reply! Looking forward to more of your rock hunting videos.

[@ruthsnyder4315]

Is your grandson's mother's name Amanda?

[@timtalksaboutrocks....most6644]

No. Thanks for watching though and caring to ask.