Your Perfect Picnic Day Kayak Tour
Les Cheneaux Islands
Horseshoe Bay Wilderness
DeTour Peninsula
Drummond Island
By request — on your schedule!
Email or call us to book.
The best lunch of your UP trip doesn't come with a side of fries.
If you've spent any time in the Upper Peninsula you already know the rhythm — pasties, whitefish, burgers, repeat. All of it good. But somewhere around day three, a meal actually made for you — fresh, thoughtful, built around what your group eats — starts to sound like something worth paddling toward.
A Perfect Picnic Day is a private, guided kayak tour on Lake Huron — five to seven unhurried hours on the water with your people and nobody else. No strangers. No shared schedule. A guide who handles every decision so the only thing on your agenda is being present.
The destination is a beach you can only reach by boat. In all likelihood, it's yours alone. No road leads there. No parking lot behind it. Just water, shoreline, and the particular stillness of a place that most never find. Your guide pulls lunch from the kayak — a chef-prepared picnic made fresh for your group. Blanket down, chairs out, ice-cold drinks from a cooler. The meal arrives as a genuine surprise. You're not ordering off a menu — someone thought carefully about what would taste remarkable eaten outside, on a beach, after a morning on Lake Huron. Dietary restrictions honored, for real. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten free — for many UP visitors, this is the meal they didn't know they'd been waiting for all week.
After lunch, the day is entirely yours. Swim. Nap on a Lake Huron beach. Rockhound for fossils (yes, there's room to take that "can't resist" stone home). Watch a kingfisher purposefully work while the busyness of your day-to-day fades away. By early afternoon, something in you will have quietly refilled.
This is a different kind of UP experience — not a queue, not a raft, not fifteen minutes of something extraordinary surrounded by strangers. A whole day. Your group. Your pace. The kind of day that becomes the thing people reference for years.
Families with teenagers, groups of friends, couples looking for a worthy splurge, multigenerational gatherings — a Perfect Picnic Day works beautifully for all of it. For groups of four to six, it's more affordable than most people expect. For two, it earns every penny.
We offer Perfect Picnic Days in four locations across the eastern Upper Peninsula — including one mere minutes from St. Ignace and another on Drummond Island. Reach out with your travel schedule. We'll take it from there.
One practical note on weather: most UP destinations — the falls, the ferry, the spring — you can decide the morning of. A Perfect Picnic Day is the one experience worth planning around. Book it early, stay flexible on everything else, and we'll work with you on timing if the forecast calls for it.
[Les Cheneaux Islands] [Horseshoe Bay Wilderness] [DeTour Peninsula] [Drummond Island]