Posted on 07/28/2004 3:38:50 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Michigan is known for tourism(North MI especially), but the top tourist attraction here is Cabelas in Monroe County(Dundee - M50 and US-23).
It's a great place, albeit a little expensive.
You're kidding, right?
That's saying something when we have Soaring Eagle Casino, the Great Lakes, Mackinac Island, Tahquanemon Falls, and hunting and fishing.
I just wish they'd put one here in alabama. I spend so much at Cabela's, I now receive the special edition hard bound catalog.
Seriously, try looking up the stats for Greenfield Village.
We got a Bass Pro in Baltimore, it rocks
My first guess would be either Greenfield Village, Mackinac, or Frankenmuth.
The Dearborn complex draws about 1.5 million visitors annually. During the next few years, it expects to boost attendance to more than 2 million, which could elevate its profile as a preeminent international cultural attraction, said Steve Hamp, president of the Henry Ford, an umbrella name that includes Greenfield Village, the Henry Ford Museum, the IMAX Theatre, the Benson Ford Research Center, and Rouge Plant tours starting in spring 2004.
Cabela's is the best! Happy shopping W-VA!
There's A Basspro an hour or so away from me. The thing that really keeps me from going there much is I can't get out of the store without spending a couple of hundred bucks.
"More than a dozen new businesses have sprung to life in Dundee since Cabela's opened. The entrants include two hotels, three restaurants, a real estate office, several storefronts and a beef jerky outlet. "
You guys have beef jerkey stores?
We live in a fancy state with beef jerky stores.
I've never really been to Downtown Dundee except driving through it a couple of times when I went to Monroe, but, it sounds like it.
I guess they'd have to be like Baskin & Robbins, 32 flavors of beef jerky.
Hello, it's a store. A store. That really doesn't qualify as a tourist attraction. If it did, Target would whip their butts.
Damn straight. Chew on that for a while.
It's kinda dry. Can you get me something to drink?
I live just a few miles from this new Cabela's in WV. The local newspaper sent a reporter to the Cabela's in eastern Pa., and his findings were that it hadn't done a whole lot for tourism or for other businesses there, so its impact on the Wheeling area remains to be seen. It's a very convenient location, however, right on I-70, and should get a lot of traffic.
I should add that AP writer Vicki Smith ripped off the Wheeling Intelligencer's investigation into the economic impact of the Pa. Cabela's, in typical AP fashion!
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