Michigan Bucket List: Check Them Off Or Die Trying

Thrillist says visiting Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is a bucket list must. (Photo by David Marvin/Flickr)

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This could be a little mean, given that summer’s unofficially and almost officially over (fall starts Sept. 23). But how did you do checking things off your bucket list?

Thrillist put together what it calls the ultimate Michigan Bucket List of 50 things you should do before you die. Here they are, and then tell us: Are these things really a thing?

1. Spend a day on Belle Isle

2. Climb Sleeping Bear Dunes

3. Bike Mackinac Island then pig out oh fudge

4. Eat a coney

5. Snowmobile Up North

6. Eat at Buddy’s

7. Drink Oberon on Oberon Day

8. Join in on a Slow Roll

9. Swim in a Great Lake

10. Spend an entire day on a lake

11. Be there for the Tigers’ Opening Day

12. Throw an octopus on the ice at the Joe Louis Arena

13. Spend Thanksgiving at a Lions game

14. Dig Grand Rapids during ArtPrize

15. Drink and eat at Founders

16. Attend a game at the Big House

17. Make the journey to Isle Royale

18. Get weird at Electric Forest

19. Get weird at Movement

20. Climb a lighthouse

21. Pick and eat fresh morels

22. Find a Petoskey stone

23. Skate at Campus Martius

24. Buy some goodies at Eastern Market

25. Get sick, drink Vernors

26. Deliberately get sick by eating too much Sanders fudge, bumpy cake, or ice cream

27. Eat at a pop-up

28. Eat a paczki in Hamtramck

29. Get a massive sandwich at Zingerman’s

30. Go for Mexican in Southwest Detroit

31. Hang out at the Dream Cruise

32. Tour the Ford Rouge Factory

33. Attend the North American International Auto Show

34. Convince someone to visit Detroit

35. Explore the Heidelberg Project

36. See Detroit from the top of the RenCen

37. Appreciate history at The Henry Ford

38. Spend a day at the Detroit Institute of Arts

39. Appreciate Detroit’s musical legacy at the Motown Museum

40. Warm up with cider and donuts at a cider mill

41. Camp, hike, or kayak at Pictured Rocks

42. Hike the Porcupine Mountains

43. Go to Hell (Hell, Michigan)

44. Cross the Mackinac Bridge

45. Hop the border into Canada

46. Buy a Michigan oven mitt mitten

47. Drive up M-22 and get a sticker that demonstrates you drove up M-22

48. See a show at the Fox

49. Just like, hang out at Hash Bash, man

50. Learn how to play euchre