Benzie & Sleeping Bear · Small town
Honor
For paddlers, anglers and fall salmon watchers: a small Benzie County village on US-31 with the Platte River running through and the state hatchery upstream.
Festival · Heritage · Family · Music · Honor
National Coho Salmon Festival
Honor's late-August family festival, held since 1967 to mark the first coho salmon planted in the Platte River, with live music, a car show and kids' games.
The National Coho Salmon Festival celebrates Honor’s claim to fame: coho salmon were first planted in the nearby Platte River in 1966, and the village started the festival the next year.
Today it is a family weekend in late August, with live music, a car show, tournaments and activities for kids. Dates are posted late, so check before you plan around it.
What to expect
Recent festivals have opened on a Friday afternoon and included live music Friday and Saturday, a car show, cornhole and euchre tournaments, and kids' activities such as a coloring contest and a petting zoo. Check the festival site or its social pages for the year's schedule.
Location
Where National Coho Salmon Festival happens
4 places on an OpenStreetMap map
The pin marks the town; check the organizer for exact venues.
About Honor
Nearby attractions
Straight-line distances, not driving distances.
Beach
Beulah Public Beach
Beulah's public beach on Crystal Lake: several hundred feet of sand, a marked swim area over a sandy bottom, a beach house and a playground.
About 5 miles away (straight line)
Beach
Peterson Beach
A wide, quiet national lakeshore beach on Platte Bay, reached by a gravel road and a boardwalk over low dunes, with views to Empire Bluff and Sleeping Bear Point.
About 6 miles away (straight line)
Beach
Esch Road Beach
A national lakeshore beach south of Empire where Otter Creek runs into Lake Michigan, a warm, shallow creek that kids love to wade. Restrooms; park along the road.
About 7 miles away (straight line)
Places to stay nearby
Hotel · Mid-range
Honor Motel
On Main Street (US-31) in the village of Honor
A family-run motor lodge from the 1940s on Main Street in Honor, a short walk from the village business district.
More events in and around Honor
- Crystal Lake Team MarathonA team marathon around Crystal Lake on the second Saturday in August, starting in downtown Beulah with awards in Beulah Park.