Muskegon's beach was covered in fog when we arrived, fog horns were blaring and the beach was practically empty. The sand was rocky, full of sticks and plastic trash. I witnessed many people just drop there cigarette butts in the sand. I was pretty disgusted, how could someone treat the earth this way?
My cousin and I began picking up trash as we normally did on the beaches we visited, but we found that we were just too overwhelmed by the amount and the lack of trash cans. We also found that most businesses were fairly far from the beach, about a 20 minute drive to the closest Meijer. Muskegon lacked local lakeside businesses and also didn't really take care of Lake Michigan in the way that it should.
Muskegon seemed to me like an example of what not to do with tourism and awareness.
-Aubrey
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