“Above the fruited plain!”
Michigan
1. Mackinac
2. Sleeping Bear Dunes Country
4. Detroit and the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village (MotorCities National Heritage Area)
5. Isle Royale National Park
6. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (Chapel Rock – America the Beautiful quarter image)
7. Keweenaw National Historical Park
Wisconsin
1. Door County
Honorable mentions: Wisconsin Dells, America’s Dairyland countryside, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin in Spring Green and Herbert and Katherine Jacobs First House in Madison (part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site)
Minnesota
2. Voyageurs National Park (America the Beautiful quarter image)
Honorable mentions: North Shore and Itasca State Park (Headwaters of the Mississippi River)
Illinois
1. Chicago (including: Chicago Early Skyscrapers – World Heritage Tentative List; Frank Lloyd Wright’s Frederick C. Robie House and Unity Temple – part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site)
3. Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (a World Heritage Site)
Honorable mention: Shawnee National Forest (Camel Rock – America the Beautiful quarter image)
Indiana
1. Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore and State Park
2. Parke County Covered Bridges
3. Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400 NASCAR Race – Racing Country
Honorable mentions: Architecture of Columbus, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park (America the Beautiful quarter image), and South Bend, Saint Joseph County
Ohio
1. Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park (World Heritage Tentative List)
2. Serpent Mound State Memorial and Hopewell Culture National Historical Park (both on World Heritage Tentative List)
3. Cuyahoga Valley National Park
Honorable mention: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial (America the Beautiful quarter image)