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Where Students Live, Learn, and Play on the Water

Marine Trades Institute is located along the northern shore of Lake Huron in the Les Cheneaux Islands. The school sits on a gorgeous waterfront campus where students can truly live, learn, and work on the water! As a student training in Michigan’s Eastern Upper Peninsula, you can satisfy any thirst for outdoor recreation within the endless acres of public forest, trails, campgrounds, rustic resorts, beaches, and miles of open water and protected channels.
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Acres of State Forest Land

The Eastern Upper Peninsula

Cross over the Mackinac Bridge into Mackinac County and visit Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Lake Superior in 45 minutes! The EUP boasts of beautiful state land, national forest, and miles of shoreline for hiking, biking, boating, hunting, fishing, snowshoeing, snowmobiling, and more!

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Miles of Lake Shore in Mackinac County

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ISLANDS

The Les Cheneaux Islands

Located east of the Mackinac Bridge along the northern shore of Lake Huron, these 36 islands provide sheltered channels and bays within the Straits of Mackinac – a historic harbor area for boaters and explorers.

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Miles of Lake Shore

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Students have Graduate from the school

Marine Trades Institute

Marine Trades Institute’s campus houses an impressive 12,000 square-foot facility on the waterfront with another 10,000 square-foot shop currently under construction. Additional training facilities, administrative offices, and boat/equipment storage is located less than a half a mile north of the main campus. 

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Years of Training in 2025

Marine Trades Institute on the Map

Visitors can come by car, plane, and of course, by boat!

Ian McClaughry

Amazing Alumni

The biggest benefit from attending [the school] was the exposure I got to different areas of the industry, as well as a wide exposure to different types of boats. Seeing those things gave me a great idea of what part of the industry I wanted to go work in. I really enjoyed my time [as a student]. It was a great experience matched by nothing else. I feel the instructors were more than qualified to teach and were able to give me all the knowledge I needed to succeed in this industry.

Ian McClaughry | ‘22 Marine Service Technology | Walstrom Marine

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