elcome HOME to Mt. Pleasant.
Yet this is a robust and growing community too. Both an established college town and a recently developed tourist destination point, activities don 't stop when the students are gone or the tourist have left. Mount Pleasant is a community rich in its own recreation, with a wide variety of special interest groups from professional organizations to clubs for just getting together for fun.
Mount Pleasant is the home of Central Michigan University, a comprehensive public university that offers high quality, innovative academic programs and strong, personalized student services. More than 100 years after its doors first opened, Central Michigan University enrolls 16,000+ students who study on an 854 acre campus at the southern end of the community. Central Michigan University offers a wonderful array of cultural, athletic and recreational opportunities for residents of Mount Pleasant and visitors to our community.
With the development and expansion of the Soaring Eagle Casino and over 1500 area lodging rooms, Mount Pleasant has indeed become a destination point for thousands of visitors annually.
Thirteen area golf courses and the Convention & Visitors Bureau 's "Golf Central" program ensure that Mount pleasant has its share of the booming golf market. The golf courses are teemed up with area restaurants and hotels through a central reservation system. Mount Pleasant offers tourists and visitors much to do and see!
For a complete history of Mount Pleasant, "THIS PLACE MOUNT PLEASANT," is a book written by John Cumming. The author ventures from the early days of Mount Pleasant to the present. Check your local library for a publication, if your library does not carry, "This Place Mount Pleasant," one can be purchased from Little Dickens Book Store, in historic downtown Mount Pleasant. Little Dickens Book Store address is 110 E Broadway, Mount Pleasant, MI 48858. (517) 773-1074.
More Information can be found at the Mt. Pleasant Chamber of Commerce
ABOUT MOUNT PLEASANT
If the City of Mount Pleasant, Michigan, can be described in a word, that word is community ... a group of people, with strong feelings, living and working together with a common interest. As a community, Mount Pleasant has retained its small town flavor, where the majority of residents live in their own homes and elected officials are on a first-name basis with their constituents.