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GULLIVER
POINTS
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INTEREST
Seul Choix Point Lighthouse & Museums. A beautiful lighthouse/museum complex with a tower to climb for grand views, and area history, including a 17th c. dugout canoe, commercial fishing, logging, limestone operations. Park has a picnic area, boat launch, and trails. ...
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Port Inland/Michigan Limestone Operations. Developed in 1930 by Inland Steel in Gary, Indiana, this big quarry still delivers high-quality limestone to waiting freighters ...
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Region: Manistique and the Garden Peninsula
GULLIVER
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Gulliver consists of a small collection of not-very-old buildings (two groceries, two gas stations, a bank, a lumber yard, a car repair shop, and some churches) near the blinker light on U.S. 2 where CR 432 turns south. CR 432 goes out to Seul Choix Point, the beautiful Seul Choix Lighthouse and museum, and Port Inland limestone quarry. The road passes between 1,000-acre Gulliver Lake and McDonald Lake (nearly 2,000 acres).
As a place name for a dispersed rural neighborhood, "Gulliver" encompasses the crossroads, the lakeside summer cottages, and the point where a fishing village once flourished.
 | | The Old Deerfield Resort, currently closed, is on the east side of Gulliver Lake. The resort’s original 4,000 acres were purchased from a lumber company in the 1920s. Much of the lakeside property was subdivided and sold off for summer homes that today are the main nucleus of Gulliver Township. |  | | U.S. 2 between St. Ignace and Escanaba still has its colorful and inventive roadside attractions like Birdbath and Beyond in Gulliver. | On Gulliver Lake a beautiful log restaurant is the centerpiece of the Old Deerfield Resort with 20 vintage cabins on the lake. It originally was part of 4,000 acres purchased from a logging company in the 1920s and finished as the Depression was taking hold. The resort owners eventually sold off parcels of their land, retaining the nucleus at the east end of Gulliver Lake. The Old Deerfield Resort is closed at the moment, but will probably open again some day under new owners. After the death of Bob Hughes, the outgoing host of the luxurious Thistledowne at Seul Choix B&B, his family now uses it as a private home.
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GULLIVER
RESTAURANTS,
LODGINGS
& CAMPGROUNDS
These are our choices, not ads.
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GULLIVER
RESTAURANTS
See also: Blaney Park, Manistique. The Old Deerfield Inn is currently closed.
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GULLIVER
LODGINGS
See also: Manistique, Blaney Park, Germfask, Curtis.
Fischer's Old Deerfield Resort is currently closed.
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GULLIVER
CAMPGROUNDS
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