Visitor Favorite Beach: Traverse City State Park Beach is a great sugar-sand beach!! Very clean, good bathrooms and a concession stand....what more could you ask for?!
I agree 100%. Traverse City has some of the most beautiful beaches anywhere in the United States.
We like to either rent a condo on the beach (but they are hard to find available) or stay at the State Park campground across the road and take the walking bridge over the road to get right to the beach.
If you have a boat, there is also a public launch nearby...so you can explore the Grand Traverse Bay that way too!