In an effort to shave approximately $13,000 off of its annual operating costs the Mackinac Bridge Authority and MDOT have put in place a plan to shut off the bridge’s decorative lighting beginning at 1 a.m. In the past the decorative lights came on a sunset and shut off at sunrise.
This way, folks can [...]

For $10 you can get a 33 minute DVD commemorating the hard work, dedication, and engineering feat of spanning the Straits of Mackinac. Historic footage is blended in with present-day interviews and the whole shebang is produced by MDOT and the Mackinac Bridge Authority.
You can purchase the video at the Michigan e-Store.

I love this old 8mm film of someone crossing the Mackinac Bridge in 1958. Not much has changed since then. About halfway across the bridge you even get to see Michigan’s unofficial state flower - the orange traffic barrel. It’s an authentic steel drum painted orange - not one of those plastic [...]

Michigan.gov has a great photo gallery of the Mackinac Bridge celebrating it’s 50 years of service. You can view them here. I must admit that the photos would be much better if they did not have a large and ugly watermark slashed across each photo.
The photos are broken down into three galleries - [...]

I just put up a page at Squidoo.com about the Mackinac Bridge. In case you didn’t know, this year marks the 50th anniversary of the completion and opening of the bridge. Numerous events are being held this year in honor of the Mackinac Bridge’s 50th and there is some pretty neat stuff at [...]

I found this video on YouTube when I decided to see if there were any cool videos of the Mackinac Bridge. Just yesterday I wrote that the Discovery Channel show, Dirty Jobs, was coming to the Mackinac Bridge this Friday, but it looks like Wild Weekend TV beat them to it.

If the video player [...]

Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel’s show Dirty Jobs, and his crew will make a visit to the Mackinac Bridge this Friday, May 25. They will focus on the never ending work that maintenance crews face to keep the bridge in tip-top shape.
I have always admired those who work on the [...]

If you subscribe to the Michigan History magazine by July 2007 you will receive the special 96 page issue chock full of stories about the historic bridge known as Mighty Mac. A one-year subscription is $19.95 for six issues. You can request a free trial issue and you can then either pay the [...]

I grabbed this image from the Mackinac Bridge Cam yesterday. You can’t see the towers of the bridge with all of the blowing snow. That’s April in Michigan for you.

MackinacBridge.org has been updated for the first time that I can remember since I first stumbled upon it a few years ago. It has a neat new interface and a lot of extras to boot. I believe the site has been updated to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the opening of the [...]