Presque Isle is French for “almost island,” which is exactly what it is. The park is located on a peninsula that formed when the space between an island and the mainland filled in with sand.
Presque Isle is French for “almost island,” which is exactly what it is. The park is located on a peninsula that formed when the space between an island and the mainland filled in with sand.
Presque Isle is French for “almost island,” which is exactly what it is. The park is located on a peninsula that formed when the space between an island and the mainland filled in with sand.
Visitors can learn about all that and more in the Marquette Regional History Center. The artifacts are genuinely old, but the facility is very new. It has a glass dome on top that mirrors the dome on the Marquette County Courthouse across the street.
The interior was artistically minimalist—white walls and framed nature photos. Like an art gallery, the simplicity of the décor puts all of the focus on the coffee and, at Velodrome, the coffee definitely stands up to scrutiny.