Join us at Grand Hotel for an unforgettable Fourth of July celebration from July 3 – 6, 2025. Enjoy iconic Grand traditions with our special three-day package, featuring a children’s carnival, ice cream social, cookout luncheon, evening cocktail receptions, and our spectacular Fourth of July Fireworks Display! The package includes three nights of activities. Extended stay rates are available for June 29, 30, July 1, 2, 6, and 7, with savings of up to 50%.
Package Includes:
Grand Hotel accommodations
Breakfast and dinner daily
All resort amenities
Children’s Movies and Glow Stick Pool Parties at the Esther Williams Swimming Pool Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday, July 2, 3, 5
Evening Reception Wednesday, July 2
Seersucker–themed reception Thursday, July 3
Children’s Carnival in the Tea Garden Friday and Saturday, July 4 & 5
July 4th Ice Cream Social in the Tea Garden
July 4th Casual Cookout Dinner in the Tea Garden (sign up required at check-in to attend)
Grand Fourth of July Fireworks Display Friday, July 4th
Cookout Lunch Saturday, July 5
DJ at the Esther Williams Swimming Pool Saturday, July 5
Admission to the Richard & Jane Manoogian Mackinac Art Museum
The 2025 Old Fashioned Mackinac Fourth of July Celebration offer is also available by calling Grand Hotel Reservations at 1-800-334-7263.
View Grand Hotel Policies and Information >> to learn more about our evening dress code, luggage process, and more.
*Subject to 6% Michigan sales tax, 3% Mackinac Island assessment, 19.5% resort fee, and a $15.00 per person, per stay, baggage-handling charge. Regular children’s rates apply. Extra charges apply for additional adults over double occupancy rates. Dates are subject to availability, 30-day cancellation policy applies. Children age 0 – 5 are free. There is an additional fee for more than two children age 6 – 12, and for children age 13 -17. A 3 night deposit is required for this package.
The annual 4th of July tournament on Mackinac Island is sure to be another crowd pleaser.
Everyone is eligible to compete in the tournament. The more the merrier.
The tournament is open to all ages and always occurs at Windermere Pointe Beach (Located next to Hotel Iroquois) every year at 10:00 am on the 4th of July. Professional skippers compete at high noon, often skipping 20+ skips.
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Schedule:
The Honorable Judge Glen Allen Open Tournament
10:00 Open tournament Begins
Kerplunking for the toddlers and little ones,
12 and under Division (Winner receives bragging rights for a year and a trophy)
13 and up Amateur division (Winner receives a trophy and fudge)
11:45 Awards Ceremony for Open Tournament
Wilmer T. Rabe International Stone Skipping Tournament (July 4th)
High Noon – Professional Invitational Competition (Winner receives goblets of cash)
All are welcome to participate in some family fun. No one is too young or too old to compete.
The weather was perfect on Mackinac Island for the 5oth annual tournament open to all. Check out the final results on the 2018 Scorecard to see this years winners.
The Pro division was quite exciting with a tie for first place. Traditionally when there is a tie the win goes to the to skippers second best stone. This year Bugsy and Lefty tied for 19 as their best skip and tied again with 17 for their second best skip. After deliberating with the judges Acting High Commissioner Paul H. Toepp, III announced that the winner would be determined by a sudden death 1 stone skip off. The crowd audibly signed when Bugsy threw a 5 and wonder if Left would go for the easy win. Lefty wound up and through for a 20+ but ended up with a 10 to take this years pro title.
Photos and Video from the 2010 Stone Skipping Tournament
Former Guinness Book Record holder Russ “Rock Bottom” Byars won the 2010 Mackinac Island Stone Skipping Tournament with a throw of 30 skips. Second place went to Todd “Mussels” Callewaert with 26 skips & rounding out 3rd was Glenn “Hard Luck” Loy with a 22 skips. (Note: Video is the third round throw and is not the tournament winning 30 skip throw.)
Photos from the Mackinac Island Stone Skipping Tournament – July 4, 2010
The historic island fort is decked out in patriotic finery with banners, flags and bunting. It is an 1880’s Independence Day, with 38-gun salutes honoring the states of the period and children’s games.
Guests join the party and participate in games on the fort parade ground. Don’t miss out on this all 1880s Independence Day as we have catch and baseball available on the parade ground to go along with foot races and sack races, a reading of the Declaration of Independence, the raising of the colors, the national salute (38 rifle blasts for the 38 states of the 1880s!), a cannon salute, and much more!
Games will be available on the parade ground beginning at 1:30 p.m. Special programming will take place at 2:00 p.m. The Tea Room Restaurant, operated by Grand Hotel, is open all day serving snacks, sweets, and beverages, and will have full lunch service from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
All special programming is included with regular admission to Fort Mackinac. (always July 4)
