The Star of Saugatuck & Chain Ferry Saugatuck Michigan - has one of the oldest hand-cranked chain ferries in America. It operates only in the summer and is takes visitors across the Kalamazoo River by an operator hand-cranking it along a chain that stretches across the river.

Saugatuck has had a ferry crossing on the river since 1838 and it's the last of its kind on the Great Lakes. The Star of Saugatuck is an old fashioned stern wheeler that shuttles passengers on tours of the river and along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Passengers can see cottages, extravagant homes, forests, wetlands and a panorama of dunes.