Monday:

Registration and Check-In - Check-in to the Best Western Plus, our host hotel, or to the alternate hotel, Hampton Inn & Suites, begins at 3 pm. Tour Registration will be in the Hospitality Suite located directly above the hotel registration desk on the second floor.

Opening Banquet - Bavarian Inn Lodge - The 2023 GLR Tour Opening Banquet will be held at the Bavarian Inn Lodge. GLR Tour participants will enjoy a Gunzenhausen Dinner Buffet including world-famous Frankenmuth Chicken, Jaeger Schnitzel and many other Bavarian favorites.

Bronner's Christmas Wonderland - If you love the joy and excitement of the Christmas season, then enjoy those special feelings all year long at Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, the world's largest Christmas store. The sights, sounds, and spirit of Christmas completely surround you at this amazing store, which is the size of one and a half football fields. Bronner's is overflowing with 50,000 trims and gifts. Bronner's is located in Frankenmuth, Michigan's "Little Bavaria."

Tuesday:

Cramton Park - Rest Stop - Located at the intersection of Genesee Street and M-24. This 15 acre park features three pavilions, three playground structures with safety surfacing, two pedestrian bridges, and seasonal restrooms. The park is separated by Monroe street with paved parking lots on both sides of the park.

Wills St Clair Museum - The largest collection of Wills autos anywhere in the world! Currently there are 10 Wills cars on display, from a 1922 Coupe to a 1926 7-Passenger Sedan to a 1926 Wills Roadster. The Museum also has many photographs of the factory and the community of Marysville, which C. Harold Wills called the "City of Contented Living". Original black & white ads, color ads, original literature and owners manuals, and much, much more.

Historic Hadley Mill - The Hadley Flour & Feed Mills, or Hadley Mill as it is now known, is an old landmark in Hadley, Michigan. The mill, built around 1873 or 1874 by Peter Slimmer, is the third mill erected on the present site. The first two were built by Edward Fortune: the first around 1845 and the second in the early 1860's.

Wednesday:

Montrose Historical & Telephone Pioneer Museum - The Montrose Telephone Museum utilizes a building built in the fifties to house the Public Service Telephone Company of Montrose. See a large collection of antique wall telephones and early style, candlestick desk phones. Displays created within a 1930 time-frame by the Montrose Area Historical Association give dimension and context to the telephone exhibits.

R.E. Olds Transportation Museum - At the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, explore Oldsmobile from the very first prototype to today's streamlined automobiles. Discover Lansing's rich transportation history – the REO Motor Car Company, old-time bicycles and aviation endeavors. The Museum has thousands of irreplaceable items in the archives along with over 60 vehicles that range from 1886 through 2003.

Durand Union Station - This 115-year-old historic building is one of the most photographed train depots in the United States. The depot is also the home of the Michigan Railroad History Museum. The museum gallery pays tribute to the colorful heritage of the railroader and to the contribution of Michigan’s railroads to lumber, mining, agriculture, and industry. Included in the collection are photographs, ledgers, technical railroad information, union materials, and a variety of other documents pertaining to railroading in Michigan.

Thursday:

Meadow Brook Hall - Meadow Brook Hall is a museum, cultural center and the fourth-largest historic home in the nation. Built in 1929, Meadow Brook represents one of the finest examples of Tudor-revival style architecture in America, and is especially renowned for its superb craftsmanship, architectural detailing and grand scale. Built by one of the automotive aristocracy's most remarkable women, Matilda Dodge Wilson, widow of automobile pioneer John Dodge, and her second husband, lumber broker Alfred Wilson.

The GLR Tour group will enjoy lunch in the fine dining rooms of Meadow Brook Hall.

Stahls Automotive Collection - The Stahl Museum has over 80 cars on display ranging from the 1886 Daimler prototype to the muscle cars of the 1960s with special emphasis on the great cars of the 1930s and 1940s, a period of style and constant evolution. Stahl's is also home to a number of restored and operational automated musical instruments dating from the early 20th century. See and hear the gigantic Mortier 97 key dance organ built in Belgium in 1922. The Stahl collection contains decades of gas pumps along with porcelain steel and neon signs from the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and 50s.

Cook's Dairy Farm - In 1933 Clark Miller had a choice. Stay in Clarkston and work for his father, Ben Miller, at a Ford dealership he owned located on Main Street in the downtown area, or move north to a farm in Brandon Township. “Ben did not think there was any money to be made in the car business,” said Clark Cook, grandson of Clark Miller. “He could have been a car dealer, but selling corn for $2.35 per bushel— that’s the reason he came up north to Brandon Township from Clarkston.” Today, Cook’s Farm Dairy employs about 35 workers in the summer and 17 during the winter months. The milking cows are hormone-free, providing the local area dairy products and hamburger. Recently, Cook’s Farm Dairy celebrated 30 years with a new ice cream container. Cook's has 20 flavors of ice cream that churned at a slower rate and with double the ingredients for flavor—"We’re not cutting back on quality.”

Friday:

Durant-Dort Carriage Office Building Tour - A once-forlorn three-story brick building, a survivor from the 19th century near downtown Flint, Mich., is today restored as a National Historic Landmark. It was elegant when built in 1895-96 as headquarters of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, said to have been the country's largest volume manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles by 1900. The firm produced up to 50,000 carriages a year and Flint was widely known as "The Vehicle City." The building is best remembered as the place where William C. "Billy" Durant, co-founder of Durant-Dort, made his transition from carriage "king" to a pioneer leader of the automotive industry. Durant boosted the careers of many famous Flint-based auto pioneers - including David Buick, Louis Chevrolet, Walter Chrysler, Charles Nash, AC Spark Plug founder Albert Champion and Flint’s major philanthropist, Charles Stewart Mott.

Durant-Dort Factory One Tour - The birthplace of General Motors, Durant-Dort Factory One is where bold, innovative visionaries William “Billy” Crapo Durant and Josiah Dallas Dort helped put the world on wheels and the city of Flint on the map. GM’s renovation of Factory One brings their story – and the building where it all began – full circle, preserving the shared heritage of GM and Flint as a learning tool and gathering space for generations to come.

Charles W. Nash House - A Queen Anne-style house, built circa 1890, was owned by automotive pioneer Charles W. Nash. Born in Illinois, Nash was hired by the Flint Road Cart Company as a cushion stuffer at $1.00 a day in 1890. He later became general manager and vice president of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, general manager of the Buick Motor Company (1910) and president of Buick and the General Motors Corporation (1912). In 1916 he formed the Nash Motor Company.

David Buick and Billy Durant - Life-size bronze statues of David Buick and William Crappo Durant welcome visitors at the end of Water Street on Lyon Street. These statues, created by local artist Joe Rundell, celebrate key leaders in business, industry, and labor whose vision, ingenuity, and determination became an integral part of the heritage and culture of the "Vehicle City."

Sloan Museum of Discovery - The Vehicle Gallery presents rotating exhibits about the history and future of the automobile. The Hands-on Science Discovery Hall engages visitors in earth and physical science exploration, featuring the multi-story Spaceship Earth exhibit, a Maker Space, water tables, and much more.

Total Tour Mileage = Approximately 500 miles over 5 days

Other Activities to Consider:

Birch Run Premium Outlets - Located just minutes from Flint, Birch Run Premium Outlets® is one of the country's first and most successful outlet centers. Located conveniently off of I-75, Birch Run Premium Outlets features over 100 stores for your shopping pleasure including kate spade new york, The North Face, Under Armour, adidas, Columbia, and Michael Kors. One of the original outlet malls, Birch Run Premium Outlets features plentiful shopping, dining, and entertainment options to provide all our guests with a world-class experience.