Grandpa Shorter's Michigan Gifts and Petoskey Stones

Voted Northern Michigan’s Favorite Gift Shop

Located in downtown Petoskey in the heart of the historic Gaslight District, on the corner of Lake & Petoskey Streets.

Grandpa Shorter’s Gifts, founded in 1946, has been serving the Petoskey community and its visitors for 70 years, and through three generations of the Shorter family. We are proud to continue the tradition of carrying Minnetonka Moccasins and Petoskey Stones like we’ve done since 1946.

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