Michigan’s 2nd Oldest City: St. Ignace, Michigan 5K.

[@ChrisHarden]

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[@GazeldaS]

St. Ignace has an awesome car show each June. Worth the visit.

[@lauracook7617]

We also have casino, mystery spot, and Indian museum, more things to see in summer months.

[@timmclaughlin5033]

Kewadin casino, I won a nice chunk of money off of them, still have some nice glassware too.😁😁😁😁

[@jerrytwolanes4659]

Thanks Chris for taking me along for the ride! I really enjoyed it!

[@Jimmy82102000]

I’ve been in the U.P once while I was at Black Lake. Very beautiful and scenic especially mackinaw city & St Ignace

[@mikemiller4239]

Thanks for the video...this time of year I think you can snowmobile over to the island.

[@ChrisHarden]

Haha Yup.

[@billdoty6438]

I live in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, which is about a 5 hr. drive there. But it’s one of my favorite places to go. Love the island. It’s such a unique place. Have walked the Mighty Mac once and plan on coming back to do it again. Great place, I could live up there

[@bluekitty3731]

Been across the bridge many times and then across highway 2 and up to the city of Marquette nothing like driving across the Seney stretch during a blizzard with a total white out!

[@shirleysmith8072]

Beautiful video we are in Seattle now but we are natives of Michigan and Chicago!👍🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️!

[@foorsandyslilacs3157]

I happen to enjoy your drive around videos. They help with planning a trip & not missing out on things that are new or that I forgot about. Especially if I haven’t been there in a while. If I had a chance to leave everything & live in the UP I would do it in a minute. 💖💖💖

[@shelbyz1974]

Very interesting facts and figures! What a beautiful town! Thanks for the new video Chris!👍🏻

[@ChrisHarden]

Thanks!

[@goldtopazasylum]

the opening segment with the water and the bridge in the background is beautiful, the downtown looks really cute, i'm still laughing about the mountain dew drinking hilljacks LOL 😂

[@blueeyedchippewa8271]

Ahhh. The KZbin algorithm brought me to a video about my hometown... And I love it! Thank you for showing our beautiful little town! My family has been in this area for hundreds of years! And I doubt I will ever leave. ❤️

[@blueeyedchippewa8271]

You got a new subscriber tonight 👍

[@douglashurd8652]

Nice welcome area great people.. beautiful hwy. 2 .. nice little shops .

[@amanwell3619]

Another great video! It's been years since I've been up there. But now that I'm back in my home state, I plan to visit asap!

[@shelleyl4807]

Best town in the world, my hometown, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[@stankaftan5816]

What a beautiful job, Chris. It has been many, many years since I have been to St. Ignace. It was wonderful to see it again. Your video is crisp and the scenery is nothing short of breathtaking! It's like we were there with you. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[@jameskleine8329]

Really enjoy your videos . Definitely want to check out this area. Thank you

[@RubinPetkoski]

Nice town. I visit once a year during the summer time. Love that pizza place that s right on the waterfront

[@battledragongun]

bc is the only pizza shop in town use to be two but that place went under do to some things that happened so bc back to being king of pizza in town

[@Ranbutch75]

@@battledragongunas there a Pizza Hut downtown at one time? I remember going to a Pizza Hut back in 93’. I’m not sure if it was St Ignace or a town nearby. Nice area up there. I remember there was a car cruise going on at that time.

[@emu5088]

Great tour. I stayed at an AirBnb on Lake Huron in St. Ignace when I did a circle tour around IL->IN->MI->WI->IL a few years ago, and it was a great way to explore Mackinac Island. We were in walking distance to the ferry and it was a more affordable way than staying on the island or the bigger hotels or craziness on the island or Mackinaw City. St. Ignace also definitely has a more authentic vibe to it. Not a ton going on, but I enjoyed it much more than Mackinaw City which felt like a very kitschy tourist trap to me. Except for the park around Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse -that was amazing. I took a dip in the summer to the right at about 11:06 in your video when I was checking off my bucket list to swim in all the Great Lakes!

[@docthediesel7781]

Love the driving tours, but I have a suggestion that I hope will be received in the friendly manner in which it is intended. The suggestion: Slow. Down. on the narration. As a former television producer, I can say there’s a bit of a science to making sure your viewers are comprehending all they hear while also absorbing all they see. A slower rate of speech is helpful. If you, as the speaker, think the pace is just right, it’s probably too fast. If it seems too slow to you as the speaker, it’s probably about right for the viewer. It took me a while to find that balance in my old career.

[@ChrisHarden]

Thanks for your suggestion Doc. I know that I'm not the best at everything but I'm always trying to make videos in the best way that I know how and learn how to improve my skills along the way.

[@tomnohmy1273]

I think it's cool what u do

[@danfrench3861]

You almost went by my house...I saw the corner of it! Nice video

[@bw8773]

My son was in the Coast Guard in St. Ignas. Great little tourist town but it's totally deserted in the winter.

[@cinccave5459]

I know you mostly show just driving but I sure would have enjoyed you inputting a walk-up Castle Rock ending the video with those views from the top.

[@Tangobutton]

We talk about St Ignatz all the time- very fond memories of staying there and visiting Mackinaw Island in the 90's, at your age. No videos, just memories And yes, we are vintage cartoon people so that's what we call it.

[@cristianohombres7309]

incredible..!

[@OnDownTheRoadProductions]

That’s our decal at the 13:08 mark on the sign, we know you looked!

[@JaxonsMusic]

That's where I live!

[@JaxonsMusic]

also i'm sorry, with the northern lights thing lol. I work at the mcdonald's in town and would get asked when the northern lights started every like 5 minutes. We were getting pretty annoyed lol

[@ChrisHarden]

@@JaxonsMusic ... So where's the best place to see the northern lights in the area? JK.

[@JaxonsMusic]

@@ChrisHarden I mean i'd always either say by bridge view or 100% Mack City, I just don't think some tourists understand that just because we live in the area... doesn't mean we know every thing lol. I'd say i'm a mcdonald's worker not a meteorologist

[@kristophermorgan2302]

Nice video but, no mention of the casino or, footage crossing the Mighty Mac?

[@ChrisHarden]

The Casino is several miles north of town, but I can see that being a fair point I guess. With the Mighty Mac... Drone footage at the beginning doesn't do the bridge any justice?

[@kristophermorgan2302]

@@ChrisHarden very good point about the location of the casino. The drone footage is beautiful. Just thought the drive across might be nice for those that have never driven it. That said, the video really is cool. I love a road trip and in your video it really feels like we are in the car together tooling around town.

[@timmclaughlin5033]

@@ChrisHarden kewadin casino, my dad lived in CHEBOYGAN, we used to drive up to "tease the Indians" as he put it, we would eat at the truck stop on the way for dinner or coffee and pie. Great memories....

[@felsinferguson1125]

@@timmclaughlin5033 You and I went to school together at West Side, dude :)

[@darindonahue5901]

The UP is basically Michigan’s Appalachia

[@MrLuke-ll4sz]

Love that place! Gateway to the UP!

[@keithsage1593]

If you wish to build a home you what need to know is every place you dig, you will find human bones every place..

[@miaball1853]

You said there isn't much to do there, you're wrong. I used to live up that way. There is the car show as well as the big truck show. Several things to do if you enjoy the outdoors.

[@dankachiros3431]

There are definantly auroras up here i live up here I know, so people are bluffing if their they there isn't any.you have to know by a forecast when to start looking to the north on a clear night.

[@felsinferguson1125]

Those of us who did time over on "Mackatraz Island" routinely referred to this misbegotten wide spot in the road as "Swingin' Iggy". It's where MANY of us headed when we had a day off. You can't actually buy Fudge in Iggy - They CALL it fudge, but it ain't - it's a poor substitute for the real thing, which you can only get on the Island. The stuff on the island has that authentic touch of horse-poo and lilac flavor/aroma that Iggy's pathetic imitation lacks :) On the other hand, you can get some pretty fine pasties in Iggy, though as far as I'm concerned, the best pasties are (or used to be... it's been quite a few years) to be had at The Pasty Shop, right next door to Alice's Kandy and Korn (used to be "The KarmelKorn Shoppe") on Huron, about halfway between the old State Dock where the Chief Wawatam and the old car ferries used to tie up (I think I read that the old USCG icebreaker Mackinaw is moored there as a museum ship now) and the new Star Line Ferry dock (the first one you pass when coming into MC from Cheboygan) And just for the record, its "The Straits of Mackinac", not the "straights". Take it from someone who grew up within 15 miles of the Mighty Mac...

[@HammeringTruth]

I live near Saint Ignace. The Northern Lights almost never appear in Saint Ignace.

[@FoolishPrankster]

FYI, you can get more fudge in Key West (period)

[@laurac5451]

Chris I hope you do all the cities villages in Michigan, post pandemic, and show the supermarkets any places where you fill tires and whatever is need for people there. You can have ads which are better than sponsorships. I let ads play for the creators so they get paid. I'm sick of the sponsorships I don't trust them.

[@deniseboldea1624]

Ha ha, the locals are hostile to a lot of tourist because they don't want developers sniffing around the area. They're rural and they want to keep it that way. You'd find the local shop owners a bit friendlier, but not overly welcoming. In short, they're fine with you paying a visit, but they don't want a bunch of outsiders wanting to live there.

[@felsinferguson1125]

There's a reason those of us who live(d) in the area call 'em "Tourons"... A portmanteau of "Tourist" and "moron" - We love them bringing in (and leaving) their money, but we could just as cheerfully live without their downright *IDIOCY*

[@deniseboldea1624]

@@felsinferguson1125 Fair Enough.

[@mjgilbert1971]

Anybody that lived in St Ignace area it’s a big white house and it’s tucked away big driveway and there’s an ice cream shop right down the driveway from it

[@adamm8236]

I grew up there. My family built that bridge. And the Mountain Dew insult has nothing to do with it. Explain yourself. I’m curious.

[@mikebell6513]

Pretty sure the boat ride to the island is much shorter from St Ignace

[@felsinferguson1125]

Not all that much. Back when I was doing it a couple times a month, the trip to/from St. Ignace was about 3-5 minutes shorter, depending on the winds, than the trip to/from Mackinaw City on the same type of boat. It also depended on which ferry you chose. The Arnold Line Cats could get you to the island (or back from it) in about 16 minutes (from untie, to tie-up - waiting for the crowd to offload could make a fairly big difference depending on which day you made the trip, no matter where your endpoints were) from MC, and about 14 minutes from SI. The Star Line "hydrojets" (The ones that have one of their engines cocked up to make a "roostertail" to make 'em look faster than they actually are) could get you there or back in about 19 minutes from MC, and about 17 minutes from SI. Never rode the Sheplers boats except as a VERY young kid (7-8 years old - school field-trip to the island) but they weren't all that much slower than the Star Line boats. The old Arnold "slowboats" were the "snails" of the ferry options - 35-40 minutes from MC (Depending on which dock you boarded at) and about 30-35 minutes in or out of SI. They might have been slow, but when the ice was breaking early in the spring, or making in the late fall/early winter, they were the only option - the other ferries simply couldn't stand up to the ice unless it was just a skim. Once REAL ice (Anything above about an inch or so thick) started making on the straits, everything but Arnold's "Ottawa" was either pulled out of the water and drydocked (Arnold's Cats) in St. Ignace, tied up at the Coal Dock on the Island side (About half of the Arnold slowboats) or run down to tie up in the Cheboygan River across from the DNR dock (most, if not all, of the Star Line and Shepler's fleets) for the winter. For me, the difference in travel time between MC and St. Ignace wasn't worth the time and cost of crossing the bridge unless I was heading across early enough at the start of the season that the only option was to catch the Ottawa out of St. Ignace to get there. Once the Cats started running for the season, I'd grab my car, cross the bridge, park in the lot behind Audie's restaurant in MC, and for the rest of the summer, I'd use the MC boats to get to and from the mainland.

[@mjgilbert1971]

Also, I worked at the casino along time ago

[@gplunk]

The french pronunciation (Sant Ig-nahss), sounds so much more mellifluous, but I guess you gotta roll w/ the local yokels....

[@mjgilbert1971]

I rented a house in the 90s when I came back in 2022 the house look like it was vacant

[@lazyrrr2411]

Tourists get the idea that "St.Ign'ernce" is a Major town just because it's the upper foot of THE BRIDGE . Oh Yeah : it's Cute , it's Historic ... aside from that there Really ain't much there . But That's O.K.! When the UP secedes from the "lope" & we take over the bridge , the Toll Gate will be on our side and St.Ignace will be right there to fulfill it's glory .

[@comeconcon569]

More forested areas in the UP than in the LP of Michigan.

[@hydravr_a417]

Go to the soo to see the northern lights

[@MJVH777]

LOL I lived in St. Ignace most of my life you don't see the Northern lights here anymore than anywhere else! That's why the local was looking at you like you were talking a foreign language. Apparently you don't know your science!

[@aaronchandler2380]

its Mackinac not Mackinaw...

[@felsinferguson1125]

Depends - Are you talking about the island, the town, the bridge, the coast guard icebreaker (either one of them) the fort (which one? On the mainland, or on the island) or the straits? Except for the fort on the mainland, which is pronounced "Mishilla-macki-NACK" (and there's some dispute about that, with it being a pretty even split between those who end it with "nack" and those who end it with "naw") no matter whether the last letter is a "c" or a "w", it's said "MACK-in-AWE". But then, I'm only someone who grew up literally able to look out the window from my bed at night and see the blinkers on the top of the bridge flashing, so what do I know? :)

[@SilentEcho9194]

You're rather condescending in tone.

[@adamm8236]

Your view from castle rock at the end of your video is a lie. That IS NOT what you see or saw. Liar.

[@MovieJustin]

Poor native people 😔