Most houses on Mackinac Island don't have garages. Many people have storage sheds, or all-weather storage tents like this one to store lawn mowers and things like that. During the summer months, snowmobiles are generally up on palates and tarped in behind or next to houses, but in the winter scenes like this one are very common. Without garages, we all just park our snowmobiles in the yard. It's not like getting snowed on is going to hurt them.
It's another way you can tell a local snowmobile from tourist machine - many of ours have cracks in the fabric covered seat cushions from sitting outside winter after winter. We also tend not to ride our snowmobiles all that much. That blue machine above is a 1999, and it's only been driven 2500 miles (about 4,000 km). On a typical day, I ride it one mile (about 1.5 km) to school and a mile home - that's it.
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