Most travelers bound for White Pine National Golf Resort touch down at MBS International Airport in Saginaw, roughly an hour's drive to the south, though Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County offers a wider range of connections for those willing to extend the journey by another ninety minutes. The route north traces Michigan's eastern heartland - flat farmland yielding gradually to denser stands of hardwood and conifer as you approach the Huron National Forest. By the time you reach Spruce, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it crossroads in Alcona County, the landscape has turned unmistakably northern: quiet two-lanes, deep green corridors of white pine and spruce, and the sense that you've left the everyday world behind for something deliberately remote and restorative.