Publisher resources

Put a useful Michigan tool on your site.

These are free, lightweight Michigan and Great Lakes planning tools built by Chris Izworski. Use a compact widget, a clean source link, or the Fall Color RSS feed. There is no charge and no commercial requirement.

Privacy: the shared widget does not use cookies, geolocation, free-text visitor input or personal information on your site. It only loads public tool data and adds a publisher source tag when a visitor chooses to open a tool.

Publisher-ready tools

Northern Lights Michigan

Live NOAA-based aurora planning for tonight and the next few nights.

Open tool

Widget key: aurora

Mackinac Bridge Live

Official bridge status, current wind, forecast wind and approach-road context.

Open tool

Widget key: mackinac-bridge

Great Lakes Buoys

Live NOAA/NDBC stations for waves, wind and water temperature.

Open tool

Widget key: buoys

Michigan Fall Color

Live regional color, timing guidance, trip ideas and a daily seasonal note.

Open tool · RSS feed

Widget key: fall-color

Soo Locks Live

Ship-schedule sources, vessel map, webcams and visitor planning.

Open tool

Widget key: soo-locks

Great Lakes Ship Tracker

Great Lakes freighter discovery and live ship-watching tools.

Open tool

Widget key: ship-tracker

Michigan Beach Report

Great Lakes beach-condition planning across Michigan.

Open tool

Widget key: beaches

Michigan Boat Launch Finder

Find public boat-launch options before the drive.

Open tool

Widget key: boat-launches

Manistee River Guide

River access, paddling and trip-planning guidance.

Open tool

Widget key: manistee

Au Sable Field Map

Au Sable access, paddling, fishing and field-map planning.

Open tool

Widget key: au-sable

Copy-and-paste widget

Change aurora to any widget key above and replace YOUR_SITE with a short identifier for your publication or organization.

<div
  data-chris-tool-widget
  data-tool="aurora"
  data-source="YOUR_SITE"
>
  <a href="https://chrisizworski.com/northern-lights-michigan/">Northern Lights Michigan</a>
  by <a href="https://chrisizworski.com/chris-izworski/">Chris Izworski</a>
</div>
<script async src="https://chrisizworski.com/publisher-widget.js"></script>

Fall Color RSS

Newsletters, lodging sites and travel publishers can also consume the daily Michigan Fall Color feed directly:

https://chrisizworski.com/fall-color/rss.xml

How to use these

Use the tool where it genuinely helps your visitor make a decision. A Sault Ste. Marie page might use Soo Locks Live. A dark-sky lodging page might use Northern Lights Michigan. A marina or fishing page might use Great Lakes Buoys. A fall travel page can use the Fall Color widget or RSS feed.

These are not paid-link placements. Keep the tool only if it improves the page for your readers.