Peterson Park
Northport, MI
Peterson Park is a Leelanau Township park on a high bluff southwest of Northport, with a stairway down to roughly 1,000 feet of rocky Lake Michigan shore. Picnic tables and a playground sit on the grass up top. Locals come for two things: Petoskey stones at the waterline and one of the best sunsets on the peninsula.
Great stones and a local favorite at sunset, though the shore is rocky and the stairs are steep.
How we score beachesEat dinner at the picnic tables on the bluff and walk down after. Sunset from the stairs is the classic Peterson Park view.
A lot at the top of the bluff off Peterson Park Road.
The beach is only reached by a long stairway down the bluff; not workable for wheelchairs or strollers.
Sunsets are latest and longest in June and July. In spring, fresh stones wash in after the ice breaks up.
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