The restaurant's menu features unique cherry dishes, such as cherry chicken salad. From the gift shop you can pack a pie for your cruise or take along specialty jams and jellies. Continue to follow US-31 through Beulah to Honor. Just four miles east of Honor is one the area's more interesting attractions, Platte River State Fish Hatchery. The hatchery raises 7 million fish annually.
Grounds are open to the public daily from dawn to dusk.
Proceed along US-31 through Interlochen, home to one of the nation's most respected art centers and school. Follow US-31 north to Traverse City. You'll see the city from afar, shining on the horizon like a jewel. From Traverse City, take M-72 west to Empire. By looking back from this higher elevation at the town's edge, you can catch a sweeping vista of the legendary Grand Traverse Bay.