Benzie & Sleeping Bear
Frankfort
A beach-and-lighthouse harbor town: a Lake Michigan beach at the end of Main Street, a breakwater light off the sand and Point Betsie up the shore.
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Historic site · Benzie & Sleeping Bear
Garden Theater
Frankfort's 1923 Main Street movie house, renovated and run by a nonprofit, showing first-run and independent films and home to the Frankfort Film Festival.
The Garden Theater is Frankfort’s rainy-night plan: a Main Street movie house built in 1923, renovated starting in 2008, and still showing films.
A nonprofit, the Friends of the Garden Theater, owns and runs it. The program mixes first-run releases with independent and foreign films, so it is worth a look even if you have seen the summer blockbusters.
It is also the home of the annual Frankfort Film Festival and the Frankfort48 film contest, and it hosts concerts in its Live at The Garden series. Check the calendar for what is playing, then walk Main Street before the show.
Practical information
- Managed by
- Friends of the Garden Theater (nonprofit)
- Best months
- Year-round
- Address
- 301 Main St., Frankfort.
- Official website
- gardentheater.org
Location
Map of Garden Theater
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Beach
Frankfort Beach
Frankfort's public Lake Michigan beach and playground at the west end of Main Street, with restrooms, ADA walkways and the piers and lighthouse in view.
Under a mile away (straight line)
Lighthouse
Frankfort North Breakwater Lighthouse
A 67-foot square steel lighthouse at the head of Frankfort's north breakwater, marking the harbor entrance in full view of the city beach.
Under a mile away (straight line)
Beach
Elberta Beach
A quieter, mostly natural Lake Michigan beach across the harbor from Frankfort, running about a half mile south from the Elberta pier. Plan ahead.
Under a mile away (straight line)