For 65 years, Boyne City has celebrated the arrival of these wild spring mushrooms with the National Morel Mushroom Festival, drawing visitors from across the country to hunt, taste and toast the ...

The 66th annual Mesick Mushroom Festival takes place May 9-11, 2025, in Mesick, Michigan. Michigan's DNR provides a Mi-Morels map highlighting potential morel hotspots, often areas of previous ...

Michigan's morel mushroom season is starting. The "fruiting" period for morels is from late April through mid-June, with May being the peak, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has released its 2025 morel mushroom map. Morel mushrooms are a sought-after delicacy, often found in areas burned by wildfires the previous year.

Morel mushroom foraging underway in Southeast Michigan 03:15. Morel mushroom hunting is an art that can take years to perfect.. That was the case for Carrie Hensel of Ann Arbor, who has been ...

While morel mushrooms can be hunted all around Michigan, Mesick — in Wexford County in northwest Michigan — is a hot spot, calling itself the mushroom capital of the U.S. Start the day smarter.

Morels grow throughout Michigan, and the DNR's Mi-Morels map, shows hot spots scattered in the Lower and Upper peninsulas. "Morel mushrooms often are found in locations where sizable fires (more ...