Editing Nocturnals - RUST CITY (section)

==Tourism==
The [[National Cherry Festival]], held during the first full week of July every year, is the main tourist draw to Traverse City. The festival features parades, fireworks, live music, and [[cherry|cherries]]. It is estimated that the Grand Traverse region produces up to 360,000,000 pounds of cherries annually.  The largest variety of cherry produced is the Montmorency cherry, or the "pie cherry".  Other cherries grown in the region include the Ulster, or sweet cherry, and the Balaton (from [[Lake Balaton]] in [[Hungary]]),  a cherry situated between the Montmorency and Ulster in terms of color and taste.

Traverse City is also a popular destination for boating, sailing, wine tasting, and tourists wishing to see [[autumn#Autumn and tourism|autumn]] colors in bus-driven "color tours." Numerous [[golf]] and [[ski]] resorts nearby bring in large numbers of tourists. Among these are Mt. Holiday and Hickory Hills. Mt. Holiday has two chair lifts, while Hickory hosts only tow ropes.

The small [[Traverse City State Park]], with about 250 campsites, is located some three [[mile]]s (4.8 [[kilometre|km]]) east of downtown on 47 [[acre]]s (19 [[hectare]]s) including a quarter mile beach on the East Bay arm of Grand Traverse Bay.

The [[Leelanau Peninsula]] north of Traverse City contains many attractions and areas of interest, including the [[Leelanau Sands Casino]] in [[Peshawbestown, Michigan|Peshawbestown]], [[Fountain Point]] and the [[Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore]].

The inaugural [[Traverse City Film Festival]] was held [[July 27]]&ndash;[[July 31|31]], [[2005]], in venues around downtown Traverse City, including a theater renovated by film festival volunteers. First-run feature and documentaries were screened, panel discussions were planned and free family movies at the Open Space were scheduled. A driving force of the Traverse City Film Festival was Oscar-winning filmmaker [[Michael Moore]].

The city was also home to [[Clover Festival|Clover]], a Christian dance music festival, in August 2006.

The [http://www.undergroundcheesecake.com/ Underground Cheesecake Company], featured on the [[Food Network]] as well as in many prominent magazines and newspapers and creator of the Cheesecake-on-a-Stick Frozen Dessert, is headquartered in downtown Traverse City.

The [http://www.glbconference.org/ Great Lakes Bioneers Conference]  is held annually in the third week of October on the campus of [[Northwestern Michigan College]]. The conference is a satellite conference of the [[Bioneers]] Conference in San Rafael, California. The Traverse City site focuses on durable ecological and socially just solutions to a diverse set of issues in the Great Lakes [[bioregion]], and attracts visitors from across the [[drainage basin|watershed]].