Area Information

Towns & Scenic Sites

Gaylord The true heart of Northern Michigan! Experience the Alpine Village at its finest.
Petoskey, Harbor Springs, Charlevoix, and Boyne City (These cities have downtown areas of quintessential “up north” culture, with restaurants, boating harbors, shopping, etc.)
Mackinac City (home of Fort Michillemackinac, waterfront to two Great Lakes)
Historic Mackinac Bridge (The “Mighty Mack” is the largest suspension bridge in America and the third longest in the world, spanning 5 miles!)
Historic Mackinac Island (home of the Governor’s Mansion and Grand Hotel)
The Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes
St. Ignace (Upper Peninsula town hosting one of the largest and most famous car shows in America)
Traverse City (Cherry Capital of the World)
Sault St. Marie (home of the international Soo Locks, passing an average of 10,000 ships per year.
Frankenmuth (home of the world’s largest Christmas store)
Tahquamenon Falls (second largest waterfall east of Mississippi, second only to Niagara; made famous in Longfellow’s poem “Hiawatha”)

Northern Beauty

The city of Gaylord is home to the Grace Baptist Church and Grace Baptist College. It is a perfect blend of rural beauty and modern development. Long considered one of the premier resort towns in Northern Michigan, Gaylord offers skiing, snowmobiling, professional golf, camping, hunting, and fishing. Whether it is outdoor recreation in local parks or tubing and waterskiing on Otsego Lake, the area yields many natural attractions.

Each season is extreme, thus allowing Northern Michigan residents to take full advantage of all that life and the outdoors have to offer each season of the year in this beautiful place.

The city with the Alpine motif is conveniently located, literally and providentially, in the central heart of Northern MI. It is where the two most popular roads intersect - I75 going north/south and M32 going east/west. These roads connect to everywhere in Northern MI. Gaylord is off of I75 Exits 279 and 282; just three and one half hours north of Detroit and Grand Rapids, and forty-five minutes south of the Mackinac Bridge.

Local Ski Resorts:

Boyne Mountain Ski Resort & Water Park
Boyne Highlands
Nub’s Nob
Treetops Resort
Otsego Club Ski Resort
Crystal Mountain Resort
Shanty Creek Resort
Schuss Mountain

Grace Baptist College is a local church ministry (Ecclesiastical Corporation) of Grace Baptist Church of Gaylord, Michigan, and is not, and has no intention of ever becoming, a liberal arts college. The sole purpose of Grace Baptist College is to train Christians to serve in the ministries of local New Testament churches of like faith and practice. Grace Baptist College is not licensed or approved by the State of Michigan and does not guarantee that any of its degrees or credits will be recognized by any other institution. Grace Baptist College is not accredited by any person, organization, or government agency. While Grace Baptist College is not accredited, the course of instruction and the individual classes are widely accepted by fundamental colleges and mission boards as college-level work.