Traverse City, home of the Cherry Fest, is apparently one big drunken fest, too.

The northern Michigan community has just been named the drunkest city in Michigan by RoadSnacks, an infotainment website that uses "data, analytics and a sense of humor to determine the dirt on places across the country."

It's no secret Michiganders can put them away: An April report from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation ranked Michigan 12th nationwide for binge drinking.

So, how did Roadsnacks pinpoint the booziest cities in the Great Lakes state?

They used the following critieria:

  • Number of bars and pubs per capita.
  • Number of wineries per capita.
  • Number of liquor stores per capita.
  • Each city’s drunk-related tweets within the past week.
  • Each city’s divorce rate.

And this is what they came up with:

  1. Traverse City
  2. Mount Clemens
  3. Ferndale
  4. Muskegon
  5. Benton Harbor
  6. Kalamazoo
  7. Escanaba
  8. Flint
  9. Grand Haven
  10. Bay City

The folks in Traverse City are clearly having a good time. There are 12 breweries, the most liquor stores per capita, the most bars per capita and yes, they rank right up there with most drunk-related tweets.

For details on the other nine drunk cities, hobble on over to the full report here.

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