44.04° N · Huron County
At the tip of the Thumb, a Port Austin motor lodge stay reserved on your yes
From, room for two$2502 nights · from $130 per personNot included: taxes, meals and park entry.
A Port Austin motor lodge stay puts you in a small Huron County town at the very point of the Thumb, where Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay come together. The plan is two nights in a motor lodge that runs its own front desk, with the breakwall in town, the Port Crescent dunes to the west and the Pointe aux Barques Lighthouse on the shore to the east.
Our office matches the lodge to your dates, asks whether a room is open, and sends you one written quote to read before you decide. You pay the office nothing for this, with no planning fee and no booking fee. The lodge takes your payment at its own desk when you arrive, and it sets its own cancellation terms.
Sea stack, breakwall and Thumb dunes
The rock at the top of this page stands just offshore east of town: a wooded limestone sea stack rising out of clear, shallow Lake Huron water. Port Austin sits right where the lake and Saginaw Bay meet, and its breakwall gives you a walk out over the water at sunset.
West of town, Port Crescent State Park has dunes and a boardwalk. To the east, Pointe aux Barques Lighthouse stands on the shore.
| Town | Port Austin, Huron County |
|---|---|
| Lodging | tip-of-the-Thumb motor lodge |
| Latitude | 44.04° N |
| North of the office | 107 miles due north |
| Nights | 2 |
| Season planned | May to early November |
| Drive from Southfield | 129 road miles, about 2 hr 46 min without stops |
| Working nightly rate | from $121 a night for a room for two (November 2026) |
Motor lodge at the end of the Thumb
Port Austin's stay is a motor lodge at the tip of the Thumb, and the picture beside this section shows a lodging of this kind. Registration and payment happen at the lodge's own front desk on arrival. Its name travels in the written quote and stays off this website, and the figure covers the room for two across both nights at the lodge's rate for the month.
Two nights near the tip of the Thumb
From $250, this stay pays for the room for two over 2 nights, or from $130 per person. Behind that number sits a working rate starting from $121 a night for a two-person room in November 2026, read from rates a public travel website showed. No nightly fee is listed by the lodge beyond the room.
Added to the figure are Michigan's 6% use tax and whatever room tax the county charges. Fuel, meals and state park entry stay outside it as well. Once your nights are set, the lodge's real rate takes the working rate's place, and it can land higher or lower. Fuller detail sits on our pricing page.
Inside this total
- The room for two for 2 nights at the lodging's rate for the month
Left for you to pay on the road
- Michigan's 6% use tax and any county room tax
- Fuel and meals
- State park entry
Open water from May into early November
May through early November is when the office plans Port Austin. Mid November to April brings winter to the tip of the Thumb, so those months stay off the office calendar for this town. For dates in that stretch, ask about a stay suited to the season.
Room and cancellation rules spelled out
A Port Austin quote arrives in writing with the lodge's name, the room, the rate for your exact nights, the taxes it adds and its own cancellation terms laid out. Read it at your own pace. Your written yes is the only thing that reserves the room; once it arrives, the office asks the lodge to hold that room in your name.
Up the Thumb from Oakland County
Southfield to Port Austin runs 129 road miles, roughly 2 hr 46 min of driving with no stops on a computed route, and an actual trip runs longer. By latitude the town lies at 44.04 degrees north, 107 miles due north of the office and below the 45th parallel.
Port Austin dates for the lodge
Tell us the month, how many nights and how many adults, and tick the box if your dates can move by a week. Sending the request form is free and holds nothing, and a written reply reaches you inside four phone hours.
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