198 miles · 20 waypoints · 1 state
20 named anchor towns along the corridor — vendors set up at and along these communities. No central registry for this event; drive the corridor day-of and watch for signs.
Official event source: us12heritagetrail.org/garage_sale.html
Why town markers, not addresses? This event doesn't maintain a central vendor registry — vendors set up along the route on event weekend without registering centrally. The towns above mark the corridor structure across 198 miles. Plan to drive through each and watch for signs.
The US 12 Heritage Trail Garage Sale stretches roughly 200 miles across southern Michigan along the historic Old Sauk Trail — US Highway 12 from New Buffalo on Lake Michigan east through Niles, Sturgis, Coldwater, Jonesville and Clinton, all the way to Detroit. Twenty trail towns across nine counties participate the second weekend of August.
The map above pins the corridor towns west to east. The trail's website carries an accumulated registry of 264 historic sale points, but those entries are year-undated and the supplemental PDF is dated 2015 — per our accuracy-first doctrine we don't seed those as 2026 vendor pins. The corridor towns + the live registry link give you the route shape; bring your own eye for hand-painted signs at every county line.
The 127 corridor runs through these anchor cities. Drive any segment, or the whole route — most folks pick a state and work their way through it.
| Distance | 198 mi |
|---|---|
| States | MI |
Friday August 7 through Sunday August 9, 2026. The trail runs the second weekend of August every year.
Twenty trail towns from Lake Michigan to Detroit (west to east): New Buffalo, Three Oaks, Galien, Buchanan, Niles, Edwardsburg, Mottville, Sturgis, Bronson, Coldwater, Quincy, Allen, Jonesville, Moscow, Somerset Center, Clinton, Saline, Inkster, Dearborn, and Detroit. The corridor passes through nine counties: Berrien, Cass, St. Joseph, Branch, Hillsdale, Lenawee, Washtenaw, Wayne, and the Detroit city limits.
Roughly 200 miles end to end. The US-12 corridor is the historic Old Sauk Trail, which is why the heritage branding sticks. Most shoppers pick a segment (the west end near the lake, the central towns around Coldwater and Jonesville, or the east end near Detroit) rather than driving the whole thing in one weekend.
The organizer maintains a registry at us12heritagetrail.org. The current registry includes hundreds of historic sale points without year tags, so we don't pin them on the map above — only the corridor towns. The route towns plus your eye for signs at the county lines is the honest way to plan this one.
The US 12 Heritage Trail Garage Sale runs the second weekend of every August. The 2027 dates will be confirmed by the organizer in early 2027.
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