Dow Gardens — and its Whiting Forest, Canopy Walk and other features within — offer a year-around menu of novel experiences, a virtual merry-go-round of adventures circling the seasons, a picnic of perspectives.

Let this be your guide to tight-money travel, belly laughs without the budget crunch, and big fun that only costs a little when you Go Great Lakes Bay in Michigan!

Free. What's the catch, right? Here's the deal: there isn't one! In fact, there are more ways than we can mention to have memorable experiences that'll cost you zero dollars when you Go Great Lakes Bay in Michigan.

There’s real satisfaction in providing your own power amid a rich soundscape of paddle splashes, gurgling waters, laughter and birdsong, and sights just as novel and appealing. You seem to float out of your own world and worries and into a wider, maybe even wiser, one. That's paddling when you Go Great Lakes Bay in Michigan.

Located just south of Saginaw is a 10,000-acre respite where you can walk for miles without seeing another human being. The only chatter to be heard is that exchanged between the birds and the squirrels. And the scenery in every direction looks like something from a Monet painting. Welcome to the Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge.

Experience the splendor of Mother Nature’s beauty and soar to new destinations by making birding your new go-to activity when you Go Great Lakes Bay in Michigan.

Summertime is primetime for walleye anglers visiting the Great Lakes Bay Region. Not only is the weather stellar, a world-class walleye bite occurs on Saginaw Bay through June, July and August.

Saginaw Bay is one of the state's most popular walleye fishing destinations, and spring is arguably the best time of year to plan a trip to the Great Lakes Bay Region to experience it.

The Great Lakes Bay Region is a year-around fishing destination. That goes double for the winter fishery this popular destination boasts.

Anglers from across the Midwest travel to the Great Lakes Bay Region in search of another transient species, the always popular walleye.

Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay is "big water", packed with big fish, and served by a big fleet of savvy charter fishing boat captains. All that's missing in this "big" picture is you!

Perhaps the one of the world's best walleye fisheries, Lake Huron's Saginaw Bay is certainly among Michigan fishing's most enticing puzzles. The Saginaw Bay challenge is to find its abundant gamefish in a vast, relatively featureless underwater landscape.