Friends Of Grindstone City DNR

07/30/2025

We acknowledge the kind donations from the Days on the Lake Grindstone Festival, Whalen's residents, and the Park picnic. Your support enables the harbor projects to move forward!

05/31/2023

The early warning siren is up and working. Thanks to everyone involved!

10/12/2022

Equipment looks great on the hill! The paint is complete and so is the kiosk. Go check it out! Located out front of Whalen's Grindstone Shores Community right by the harbor.

07/31/2022

Look what some of our local captains and boat owners did today. Thank you for your service veterans! We appreciate you beyond words. Hope you enjoyed your day! Thank you for the couple of donations to FOG and Thanks to Murphy's Bakery for breakfast and Days on the Lake for the fish fry lunch you provided!

07/11/2022

Wow it's been a while since we've done an update! We had a sign installed at the new cell phone tower location on Pointe Aux Barques. Thank you Thumb Cell!

04/21/2022

Good morning from FOG. We are still alive and well in the community. I'd like to thank 2 that come to mind, Airo-dynamic and Phil Pavlov for their recent donations!

05/26/2020

We had some DNR workers from Port Crescent State Park out today doing a clean up of the last fall and winter storms. Thank you for your help! Very much appreciated 👍

11/17/2019

Grindstone and the mission Friends of Grindstone has been working so hard on. Thank you for the article in the Mi Thumb Huron Daily Tribune newspaper. I would also like to thank Anna Sylvester and Ron Olsen at the DNR who have been working on helping our area. Without them, we'd still be at a standstill.

GRINDSTONE CITY - Like many shoreline communities, the high water and strong currents have wreaked havoc in Grindstone City this year. However, the waves have also unearthed many historic grindstones a friends group want preserved. The grindstones date back to the early and mid 1800s, when ship Capt...

11/01/2019

We did get some good news today, (I think, as long as Grindstone isn't put off again), that the DNR will finally be here to shore up and stabilize the points on monday. They say not the small spots originally planned, but all the way around on both pieces of land. Keep your fingers crossed 🤞

10/31/2019

Oh-mi-Grindstone...will be lucky to have the points left or a harbor after that 😐