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Backyard Excursions
Travel Ideas Resource Guide

The Backyard Excursions Travel Idea Resource Guide is published annually – in print as well as digitally. It features a wide variety of activities and is designed to encourage readers to refer to it often and use it for reference when making travel plans. Content in this publication is limited to display advertising, listing text and other “information” deemed appropriate by the publisher.

The digital version is emailed to all Backyard Excursions readers who have requested it, allowing them to download the publication whenever they wish and review it at their leisure. A link is also emailed to individuals who have expressed interest in receiving travel information through our Travel Partners.

Backyard Excursions Seasonal eSupplements

The Backyard Excursions Seasonal eSupplements are published digitally four times per year. Each issue provides travel ideas appropriate to the season. Here we share numerous travel tips, mini getaways, lists of festivals and events and discount packages. The publication is distributed to the same individuals as is the Travel Ideas Resource Guide. Advertising is not accepted in these publications—But, at the publishers discretion—Travel Partners may be profiled at no cost to them.

Backyard Excursions Website

Our website is “the #1 resource for ‘close to home’ travel information." Visitors will find lots of travel information and resources. They can request information from our Travel Partners; they can browse the current and previous issues of Backyard Excursions publications; they can look up events in their home area or their travel destination; they can print the personalized web page we provide for each one of our Travel Partners which includes the advertisers a dynamic link to their web site and MapQuest link.

Backyard Excursions is a travel idea resource guide providing a rich variety of destinations and attractions in the Great Lake states including Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois. Discover great vacation ideas including family activities, romantic getaways, accommodations, entertainment, shopping, tours, museums, sports, recreation activities and more, all in “your own BACKYARD." Visit locations in Michigan like Frankenmuth, Mackinaw, Traverse City, Bay City, Midland and Ludington. Take a road trip to Shipshewana, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Greenfield or Antique Alley, Indiana. Explore Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Youngstown and Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Take an excursion to Chicago, Springfield, Peoria or Rock Island, Illinois. Plan a weekend in Green Bay, Black River Falls, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin Dells or Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The destinations are endless, yet not so far away.