Arcadia, MI

Arcadia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Arcadia Township, Manistee County, Michigan, United States. The 2020 census counted 309 residents. The community is located along M-22 and the Lake Michigan shore. Arcadia is in northwestern Manistee County and is bordered to the west by Lake Michigan and to the south by Arcadia Lake, connected to the larger lake by an artificial channel. The short version is that Arcadia carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Arcadia: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Arcadia is connected to one of Michigan's only natural marshes, the "Arcadia Marsh," which has Bowens Creek running through it.