Activities that you could take advantage of in the area include: playing a round of championship golf in Manistee and Benzie Counties, enjoying wine tasting at a large number of vineyards in Grand Traverse area, canoeing down a river, hiking at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore or many of the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy Preserves, hearing internationally-acclaimed music at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, shopping at the Commons in Traverse City, visiting the Arcadia Historical Museum, exploring artisan communities along the Lake Michigan shore, and much more.
Traverse City, the Old Mission Peninsula, Frankfort, Leland, Empire, Manistee, , and Crystal Mountain Resort & Spa are all within an hour and a half of Arcadia.