BENNINGTON, MI – Heading Up North for many Michiganders means taking the fastest route, skipping high traffic hours, avoiding speeding tickets and shaving as much travel time off as possible.

For these 14 antique tractor restorers, heading north is a tradition where the journey is as important as the destination.

The 17th Annual Mackinac Bridge Antique Tractor Crossing brings tractors built before 1982 from all over the Midwest to the straits of Mackinac. Drivers and their buddy riders experience something completely unique to Michigan, riding the 5-mile-long span of the Mackinac Bridge on an antique tractor.

It takes the 14 members of Heart of Michigan Antique Tractor Club three days to travel from Bennington, Mich. to Mackinaw City; the journey is just under 300 miles. “Going 14, 15 m

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