The tasting room with a fire going. The bookstore that doesn't mind if you stay two hours. The museum nobody on TripAdvisor mentions. Rain on a lake is one of the better problems to have.
A 1918 French Renaissance stone complex two miles south of Round Lake harbor, home to Michigan's largest outdoor model railroad — more than seventy trains running over 2,500 feet of track, May through October. Self-guided tours run year-round; guided tours with a professional storyteller run daily June through mid-September for twenty-five dollars. The formal gardens double as one of the region's busiest wedding venues, so a Saturday visit sometimes means working around a ceremony.