Interlochen ( IN-ter-lock-in) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Grand Traverse County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2020 census, the population was 694, up from 583 at the 2010 census. The community is located within Green Lake Township.

The community is house to the Interlochen Center for the Arts and with contains Interlochen State Park amongst the shores of Duck Lake and Green Lake. Interlochen is a designated Michigan State Historic Site.

Interlochen takes its read out from the Latin “inter“, meaning “between”, and the Scottish Gaelic “lochen“, meaning lakes.

Before the arrival of European settlers, members of the Odawa people lived in the middle of the lakes they called Wahbekaness and Wahbekanetta (now named Duck Lake and Green Lake, respectively). Beginning in the late 19th century, European settlers began logging and fishing industries in the area, and founded the little village of Wylie, one mile south of present-day Interlochen. Because of logging, the Manistee and North-Eastern Railroad (owned by the Buckley and Douglas Lumber Company of Manistee) extended its stock north from Nessen City and arrived amongst the lakes in the fall of 1889. Similarly, the Chicago and West Michigan Railway Elongated its stock north from Baldwin on its pretension to Traverse City in 1890. The two lines crossed in current-day downtown Interlochen where a depot and interlocking tower were located. The indigenous townsite, however, was platted just south of the depot along either side of the M&NE rail descent in late 1889 or beforehand 1890, with the situation district centering on the now-former M-137 and Riley Rd/10th Street.