In the August/September issue story “Circle the Station Wagons,” writer Ann Treacy asks some experts about tips on traveling around the lake with children. The story gives great ideas about everything from amusing children on long stretches of ride to how to get across the border without hassles.

Local educators also give some of their specific regional “top ideas” for kids. We’ll add more as they come in:

Places to go for kids in Michigan:

Alice Walker, Superintendent of Tahquamenon Area Schools in Newberry, Michigan, and Kristi Peacock (dynamic outdoorswoman), think that children would love:

• The Children’s Museum in downtown Marquette (www.upcmkids.org)

• The Lighthouse Museum on Whitefish Bay near Paradise, Michigan, where kids can run on the beach. Exhibit on shipwrecks of lake Superior. (www.shipwreckmuseum.com)

• Seney National Wildlife Refuge – On this driving tour you will see turtles sunning themselves, eagle nests, sandhill cranes. (www.fws.gov/Midwest/Seney/)

• Oswald’s Bear Ranch north of Newberry, Michiigan. $10 per car to see bears in natural habitat – a huge refuge, not some bears in a backyard pen. (www.superiorsights.com/oswaldsbearranch/)

• Tahquamenon Falls State Park has upper and lower falls, an interpreter, and for the parents a microbrewery pub! On the lower falls you can rent a boat for $2 to row the very short distance to an island around which the lower falls flows. (www.exploringthenorth.com/tahqua/tahqua.html)

• Soo Locks Boat Tour (www.soolocks.com)

• Munising, Michigan, is known for its glass bottom boat tours of shipwrecks. (www.shipwrecktours.com/; www.picturedrocks.com)

• In Grand Marais, Michigan, are the Log Slide and Pictured Rocks. Run down the hill that was once used as a log roll to float logs. Then hike up again. (www.nps.gov/piro/)

• Fort Wilkins State Park in Copper Harbor, Michigan. (www.exploringthenorth.com/wilkins/wilkins.html)

Watch for the outstanding breakfast at the Logging Museum north of Newberry (last Saturday of every month), and for Yooper tourist traps like the two-story outhouse (between Ishpeming and Negaunee) and largest saw in the world (www.dayoopers.com). There are also rock museums and copper mines.