[Lakeshark]

Heh. I can't believe I'm posting something from ABC News. They may not have gotten this right, the other areas are beautiful as well; it is for certain this area of the country is drop dead gorgeous, go to the link for pics.

[Redcloak]

I’m sure it’s nice, but it’s got nothing on the Northeast corner of Beverly and Rampart in Los Angeles.

[BlazingArizona]

My town was one of the contenders, but why did the winner have to be the one place I have never heard of?

[BuckyKat]

Gorgeous. I’d forgotten how beautiful Michigan could be (I grew up in Berrien County - Warren Dunes was our closest state park). Too d*** cold in the winter, though, so I’ll stick with a 45-minute drive from one of their other listed beautiful places, Lanikai Beach.

[Vermont Lt]

This is the ONLY one of the finalists I haven’t seen. How did that miss my lists?

[rustbucket]

I'd vote for Aspen.

I had to use the car lights to drive up the road to Maroon Bells. When I got there before dawn, there were already about 50 photographers setting their tripods up at the edge of the lake.

We were a few days past the fall color peak as some of the aspen trees in the distance had already lost their leaves. When the sun hit the trees on the right shore later in the morning, the leaves there got a lot brighter, but the left bank of the lake was in deep shaddow.

[Hot Tabasco]

I would disagree with the article only because the entire Lake Michigan shoreline is beyond compare. I grew up on Lake Charlevoix and to me that was the most beautiful inland lake in the country, if not the world. Clear, cold, deep and spring and river fed with magnificent fishing and miles long between Boyne City and Charlevoix.

Add to that a countryside ripe with both small game hunting and deer throughout the fall and winter and nearby skiing............

As a young kid, it was a paradise for me. I could go on and on, especially about watching the summer rain storms or the winter snow squalls coming down the lake from Charlevoix......

[dragonblustar]

I'm partial to Alaska even thought I was born in Michigan.

[aruanan]

I’ve been there. It’s beautiful. But there are any number of places in Colorado alone that are more beautiful than Sleeping Bear Dunes.

[Azzurri]

And, here's a nice panoramic of Sleeping Bear Dunes

[equaviator]

There’s one place in the UP of MI that I must revisit (July, 1980)- Porcupine Mountains and the Lake of the Clouds.

[paratrooper82]

Remember, the rats voted for this, Traverse City is full of rats and the vote was staged from what I am hearing back home.

[catpuppy]

Looks like all the people used the three days of Michigan “summer” to get out of there.