Kingston Plains: The U.P.'s Ghost Forest of Stumps
The Kingston Plains near Grand Marais is a U.P. ghost forest: a haunting plain of century-old stumps where logging and fire left a forest...
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Mount Bohemia: The Midwest's Most Extreme Ski Resort
Mount Bohemia on the tip of the Keweenaw is the Midwest's most extreme ski resort: no grooming, no snowmaking, no beginner runs, and the...
Heikki Lunta: The U.P.'s Homemade Snow God
Heikki Lunta is the Upper Peninsula's own snow god, invented in 1970 by a radio DJ to save a snowmobile race. The story behind...
Seul Choix Point Lighthouse: The U.P.'s Haunted Light
At Seul Choix Point Lighthouse near Gulliver, visitors and staff keep smelling cigar smoke from a keeper who died in 1910. Inside the U.P.'s...
Copper Peak: The Western Hemisphere's Only Ski Flying Hill
Copper Peak outside Ironwood is the only ski flying hill in the Western Hemisphere, a steel tower where skiers flew 518 feet. And a...
Stormy Kromer: The Yooper Hat Made in Ironwood
The Stormy Kromer is the most Yooper hat there is, but it was born in Wisconsin in 1903. How the iconic cap ended up...
Which U.P. Counties Are on Central Time (and Why)
Most of Michigan runs on Eastern Time. But four counties in the western U.P. have quietly stayed an hour behind on Central Time for...
Why Does Michigan Have the Upper Peninsula? The Real Story
Michigan didn't choose the U.P. It got stuck with it. Then it got rich. If you've ever wondered why Michigan has the Upper Peninsula...
White Hurricane of 1913: The Great Lakes' Deadliest Storm
In November 1913, a single storm tore across the Great Lakes for four days, sank a dozen ships, and killed more than 250 sailors....
Brockway Mountain Drive: The U.P.'s Most Stunning View
From the top of Brockway Mountain, Lake Superior spreads out in front of you in every direction, blue all the way to the horizon....
The 1921 Marquette Prison Warden Murders
Inside the movie theatre of the Marquette Branch Prison, a December night in 1921 turned into the darkest chapter in the prison's long history...
Ishpeming: The Birthplace of American Skiing
The national Ski Hall of Fame sits in Ishpeming for a reason, this is where the whole sport got organized When you picture the...
The Humongous Fungus: The U.P.'s Living Giant
In the woods near Crystal Falls lives the Humongous Fungus, one of the oldest and largest living things on Earth In the woods near...
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