More on Mitiwanga

Looking east on US Route 6

Here's another look at Mitiwanga, that tiny blink-and-you-might-miss-it resort community on US Route 6 just east of Huron.

Below is the entry for Mitiwanga from a facsimile edition of Lake Erie Vacationland in Ohio, a 1941 travel guide compiled by the Ohio Writers' Program of the Works Projects Administration.

Postcards featuring Mitiwanga are easy to find on Ebay, although trying to get 'then and now' shots of them is just about impossible, since all the cottages and buildings are well off Route 6 (if they do indeed survive).

Nevertheless, here's a variety of Mitiwanga postcards to give you a bit of the flavor of the resort.

Wild Waves Hotel, postmarked 1932

The Wild Waves Motel maintains a website here.

For a great collection of vintage Mitiwanga photos, as well as the definitive history of the resort, visit the Vacationland page on Drew Penfield's Lake Shore Rail Maps website by clicking here.