Accolades: Rave Reviews for Emmet County

We love it when they love us! Rarely a year goes by without several publications and their writers discovering all the wonderful things about Emmet County. Some of the top honors and recognitions bestowed upon this area include:

Midwest Living magazine ranked Petoskey No. 2 among the Best Small-Town Getaways in 2008.

Petoskey has made the lists of “The 100 Best Small Towns in America,” “The Great Towns of America,” and “America’s 100 Best Places to Retire.”

Outdoor Life magazine, summer 2009, listed Petoskey among its “Top 200 Towns for Sportsmen,” (No. 80) citing access to hunting and fishing opportunities, combined with local quality-of-life indicators.

Petoskey is featured in “101 Best Outdoor Towns,” a book by Sarah Tuff and Greg Melville released in May 2009. “The Caribbean has nothing over the view from town as the sun extinguishes into Lake Michigan behind the Creamsicle horizon,” reads the Petoskey entry. “Couple that with the back-in-time feel of the artsy downtown Gaslight District, the long beach walks and the views of Little Traverse Bay from the top of sandy Old Baldy, and you’ve got one of the most romantic spots in the Midwest.”

Travel journalist Patricia Schultz’s book “1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. and Canada Before You Die,” includes an entry for the Little Traverse Bay area.

Boyne Highlands boasts the Donald Ross Memorial course and the Heather designed by Robert Trent Jones, named No. 55 in the “Top 100 Courses you can Play” by Golf Magazine.

Petoskey was included with seven other towns in the January/February 2009 issue of “Where to Retire” magazine, in the article, “8 Terrific Low-Tax Towns.”

Emmet County was ranked sixth for access to health care in the “Best Places to Live in Rural America,” by Progressive Farmer in 2007; the listing was based on a health density ratio of resources to number of people.

The high-end resort and year-round community of Bay Harbor, just east of Petoskey, garners considerable attention, including Top 50 “Best Resort Courses” by Conde Nast Traveler; the Urban Land Institute’s Award for Excellence; and the No. 20 ranking in America’s “Top 75 Golf Resorts” by GOLF Magazine.

The Wall Street Journal has also named Bay Harbor among the top five places to retire in the U.S. at age 50. In 2009, CNBC awarded Bay Harbor the International Property Award for Best Residential Development.

The Inn at Bay Harbor - A Renaissance Golf Resort, recognized by Travel + Leisure magazine as one of The World’s Best Hotels.
 

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