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There’s a Spring in the U.P. So Crystal Clear the Trout Look Like They’re Floating in Midair
Kitch-iti-kipi near Manistique is Michigan's largest freshwater spring, and you can glide right over it on a raft you pull yourself Tucked into the woods near Manistique is a spring so clear and so…
A Decade Ago, This Lake Superior Island Was Down to 2 Wolves. Now There Are 37, and the Moose Are Disappearing Fast.
The latest count from Isle Royale, the longest-running wolf and moose study on Earth, is one of the most dramatic in its…
A Walk in the Woods Could Soon Come With a Storybook, One Page at a Time, at This Marquette Township Park
The idea is simple and kind of magical: a children's picture book spread along the trail so kids read a page at…
A Yooper Buys a Scratch-Off Before Every Road Trip. This Time It Won Him $2 Million.
He grabbed the ticket in Sault Ste. Marie on his way home, same as he always does. This time the drive paid…
A L’Anse Family of Five Got Stranded on the Rocks in the Middle of Keweenaw Bay, and the DNR Brought Them All Home Safe
Their 31-foot sailboat ran up on the rocks halfway across the bay. Two conservation officers had them back on shore within the…
For the First Time Ever, Wheelchair Users Can Roll Right Up to the Brink of Tahquamenon Falls
A new 1,100-foot accessible boardwalk has replaced the steep 94-step staircase that kept the U.P.'s most famous waterfall out of reach for…
A Florida Man Torched Four State Police Cruisers in the U.P., Then Shot at the Troopers Who Came for Him.
A Chippewa County judge called it a premeditated, ambush-style attack built to lure officers into a kill zone A Florida man who…
Five Pilots Are Flying U.P. Kids Over Tahquamenon Falls This Sunday — and It Won’t Cost a Dime
This Sunday, five planes are touching down at the Luce County Airport in Newberry on a mission that has nothing to do…
Extreme Fire Danger Has Taken Hold of the U.P. and Crews Are Already Putting Out Flames
If you have been thinking about burning a brush pile, lighting a bonfire, or torching that winter's worth of yard waste this…
A U.P. Family Is Racing to Save the 100-Year-Old Toonerville Trolley Before It’s Scrapped
For nearly a century, the Toonerville Trolley carried families deep into the Tahquamenon wilderness on a narrow-gauge track most people never knew…