Editing Petoskey, Michigan (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:2009-0619-Petoskey-depotmuseum.JPG|thumb|right|The Little Traverse History Museum is housed in the former Chicago and West Michigan Railroad depot.]]
[[File:2009-0619-Petoskey-marina.JPG|thumb|right|Petoskey Marina]]

===Airports===
* The nearest airports with scheduled passenger service are in [[Pellston Regional Airport]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pellstonairport.com/ |title=Pellston Regional Airport Serving Northern Michigan Emmet County |publisher=Pellstonairport.com |access-date=November 25, 2013}}</ref> and [[Cherry Capital Airport|Traverse City Cherry Capital Airport]].

===Bus===
* [[Indian Trails]] provides daily intercity bus service between [[St. Ignace, Michigan|St. Ignace]] and [[East Lansing, Michigan]]<ref>{{cite web | title=EAST LANSING-PETOSKEY-ST. IGNACE | publisher=[[Indian Trails]] | date=January 15, 2013 | access-date=February 27, 2013 | url=http://www.indiantrails.com/sites/default/files/1488.pdf | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629095410/http://www.indiantrails.com/sites/default/files/1488.pdf | archive-date=June 29, 2014 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> and between [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]] and Petoskey.<ref>{{cite web | title=GRAND RAPIDS-CADILLAC-TRAVERSE CITY-PETOSKEY | publisher=[[Indian Trails]] | date=January 15, 2013 | access-date=February 28, 2013 | url=http://www.indiantrails.com/sites/default/files/1484.pdf }}{{dead link|date=March 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Transfer between the two lines is possible in Petoskey.
*The EMGO/SRR bus service runs Monday through Friday, from Petoskey, Mackinaw City, Harbor Springs, and to multiple locations in Emmet County with flexible routes within many communities along the way.

===Rail===
* Freight rail service to Petoskey is limited and provided by the [[Tuscola and Saginaw Bay Railway]] (TSBY); however, the tracks are owned by the state of Michigan in order to preserve rail service in northern Michigan. Freight traffic includes plastic pellets delivered to a rail/truck [[transload]] facility for Petoskey Plastics. Occasional passenger/special excursion trains to Petoskey occur every now and then.

Historically, the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]'s ''[[Northern Arrow]],'' the [[Pere Marquette Railway]]'s ''[[Resort Special]]'' and other trains provided passenger traffic to Petoskey and [[Bay View, Michigan|Bay View]], [[Michigan]] from as far as Chicago, St. Louis, [[Cincinnati]] and [[Detroit]] but these were discontinued in the late 20th century.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Pennsylvania Railroad, Tables 190, 193 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=74 |issue=1 |date=June 1941}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Pere Marquette, Table 6 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=74 |issue=1 |date=June 1941}}</ref> The Pere Marquette trains (and later the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]]) used [[Chesapeake and Ohio Depot (Petoskey, Michigan)|its station]], and the Pennsylvania Railroad its own separate station.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Index of Railroad Stations, 1452 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=71 |issue=3 |date=August 1938}}</ref> The last Chesapeake and Ohio (successor to the Pere Marquette) trains were discontinued by 1963, thus ending scheduled passenger train service to Petoskey.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Tables 10, 13 |journal=Official Guide of the Railways |publisher=National Railway Publication Company |volume=96 |issue=1 |date=June 1963}}</ref>

===Marina===
* The City of Petoskey Department of Parks and Recreation operates a 144-slip marina located in Bayfront Park. The marina offers seasonal and transient slips, gasoline, diesel fuel, boat launch, wireless internet, 30/50 AMP power, water, pump-out, restroom/showers, playground and adjacent park grounds. The [[gas lighting|Gaslight District]] is connected to Bayfront Park via a pedestrian tunnel. The marina received initial designation as a "Michigan Clean Marina"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/cmp/designated/index.html |title=Certified Michigan Clean Marinas |publisher=Michigan Sea Grant |access-date=November 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412121456/http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu//cmp//designated/index.html |archive-date=April 12, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> in May 2007 and was recertified in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.petoskey.us/departments/parks_and_recreation/clean_marina_program.php|title=Clean Marina Program|website=Petoskey.us|access-date=2021-12-20}}</ref>

===Major highways===
*{{jct|state=MI|US|31}} is a major highway running through the heart of the city. It continues southerly toward [[Charlevoix, Michigan|Charlevoix]], [[Traverse City, Michigan|Traverse City]] and [[Muskegon, Michigan|Muskegon]] and northerly to a terminus near [[Mackinaw City, Michigan|Mackinaw City]].
*{{jct|country=USA|US|131}} has its northern terminus in the city and continues southerly toward [[Cadillac, Michigan|Cadillac]] and [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]].
*{{jct|state=MI|M|119}}, accessible off US 31 east of the city and [[Bay View, Michigan|Bay View]], continues around the north side of Little Traverse Bay to [[Harbor Springs, Michigan|Harbor Springs]] and then to [[Cross Village, Michigan|Cross Village]].
*{{jct|state=MI|CDH|C-58}} begins at C-81 just east of the city and continues to [[Wolverine, Michigan|Wolverine]].
*{{jct|state=MI|CDH|C-81}} is a north–south route passing just to the east of the city.