Plan Your Visit: Historic Downtown Mackinac Admission in Mackinaw City, MI

Summary: You buy a ticket to go into the historic buildings. You can buy a ticket just for the buildings or a combo ticket with the fort. If this is something you know you want to do off the ferry, I’d recommend heading to the blacksmith shop directly from the ferry. This will cut out walking along the congested main street. Cross Main Street (watching for bikes and horses-don’t linger in the road), Head up Hoban St away from the dock. Make a right on Market Street. The Biddle House and Benjamin Blacksmith shop will be on your left. You can get your tickets there and ask the locations of the historic buildings. Your ticket includes entrance into 5 buildings with exhibits; a few interpreters and there is a working blacksmith. We recommend picking out something from the blacksmith shop to buy as a souvenir. It is by donation and the blacksmith is one of the most informative we’ve found and very helpful to fellow blacksmiths. Exhibits tell about local families, local native American tribes, and the Alexis St. Martin story. There is a general store set up and a working kitchen as well. We also visited the church at the end of Market Street and the missionary hut on the green in front of the fort (although these were free to enter).