I am liking Coldwater, MI. A quick search of their city website (
City of Coldwater) shows a city park (Heritage Park:
City of Coldwater) with pavilions available plus a lot of nice amenities that would suit us well. We could do a Saturday meet with a pass a dish lunch / barbeque.
For dinner that night there are plenty of local restaurants that have good reviews. A couple that stood out were Tail Gator's Sports Bar (Great pizza and burgers), Los Tequilas (Mexican), and Stoagies Family Room Cafe.
For lodging they have all the major hotel chains available so I am sure we can get a good group rate or folks can find good deals through hotwire. All the hotels look to be walking distance from each other so even if we are split up a bit it shouldn't be an issue for parking lot festivities.
Sunday morning it looks like Jeannie's Diner is the place to go for breakfast. From what I read it is a popular place, but if we beat the church crowd we shouldn't have any issues getting served.
Sunday day we can head over to Bundy Hill and provide an off road get together for the larger trucks, and anyone who is interested in riding along as a passenger for the day.
Drive time looks to be a local drive from Kalamazoo and Lansing, MI; 1 hour Fort Wayne, IN; 2 hours from Detroit, MI; 3 hours from downtown Chicago, IL and Indianapolis, IN; 4 hours from Columbus, OH; 5 hours from Louisville, KY; and 6 hours from Amana, IA.
If this seems like a workable idea I have no issue running with it and helping plan, provided a local MI member doesn't want to step in and take charge!