"Basically, they go on vacation," the tourism bureau said. Mackinac Island Carriage Tours has Percheron and Belgian draft horses for carriage tours and dray services, the tourism bureau explained.

The horses remain somewhat skittish prey animals. Maddie, a huge Belgian draft, doesn’t like cement trucks. None of the horses are keen on the grocery bags that sometimes float down Columbus ...

Although a couple dozen horses remain on Mackinac Island through the offseason delivering mail to year-round residents and ...