Mackinac Island ( MAK-ə-naw, MAK-ə-nə) is a city in Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 census, the city had a permanent population of 583. The population numbers in the tens of thousands from May 1st to October 31st due to an influx of visitors and hundreds of seasonal workers.

Established as an important fur trading center in the eighteenth century, with a predominately French-speaking population of French Canadians and Métis, after the War of 1812 the city gained more Anglo-American residents. The US put restrictions on Canadians for fur trading. From 1818 until 1882 the city served as the county chair of the former Michilimackinac County, which was far along organized as Mackinac County, with St. Ignace designated as the county seat. The city includes whatever of Mackinac Island and it next originally included easily reached Round Island which is unpopulated and now federally owned and share of the Hiawatha National Forest. The let pass park and the national plant make happening most of the city.

A unique local ordinance passed in 1895 prohibits the use of any motor vehicles on the island. The abandoned exceptions to this are city emergency vehicles (ambulance, police cars and ember trucks), city assistance vehicles and snowmobiles in the winter. Today the most common means of travel is either by foot, bicycle, horse or horse-drawn carriage. Roller skates and roller blades are along with allowed, except in the downtown area. Mackinac Island is home to the Grand Hotel, built during the late nineteenth century gone the island started to be a summer destination. When the 1980 movie Somewhere in Time was filmed here, the city made an exception to permit the production company to use motorized vehicles on the island.

Mackinac Island is noted for its many fudge shops, a tourist attraction. The island has a large craft industry devoted to making fudge in a customary manner, creating portions on chilly marble slabs. The many varieties are a tourist glamor and frequently given as gifts throughout Michigan.