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The shoreline at Whitefish Point, with Lake Superior stretching to the horizon and old pier cribs standing in the shallows.

Current leadOutdoors & TravelWhitefish Point, Chippewa CountyAug 12, 20261 comment

Every Spring, Birds Refusing to Cross Lake Superior Pile Up on One Point of Sand. People Have Been Counting Them Since 1966.

Most people know Whitefish Point for what happened offshore. The Edmund Fitzgerald went down not far from here, the shipwreck museum is on the point, and the water is the reason anybody built anything at this…

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The Upper Peninsula State Fair sign and exhibition buildings on the fairgrounds in Escanaba, Michigan.

History & CultureEscanaba, Delta CountyAug 12, 2026

Michigan Cut Both Its State Fairs Loose in 2010. Only the One in Escanaba Is Still Standing.

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A large carved snow statue of a Viking ship built for Michigan Tech's Winter Carnival, lit at night with onlookers silhouetted beside it.

History & CultureHoughton, Houghton CountyAug 12, 20261 comment

A Michigan College Has Been Carving Giant Snow Statues Since 1936, and the Best Ones Go Up Overnight

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Rough water on the north shore of Lake Superior

History & CulturePresque Isle River mouth, Gogebic CountyJul 21, 20261 comment

Sailors Have Been Reporting a Serpent in Lake Superior Since 1894. Meet Pressie.

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NewsU.P.-wideJul 20, 2026

DNR tracking deer herd after historic winter

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History & CultureKingsford, Dickinson CountyJul 20, 2026

Kingsford Charcoal Began With Scrap Wood From a U.P. Sawmill

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The mouth of the Two Hearted River meeting Lake Superior

History & CultureSeney and the Two Hearted River, Schoolcraft and Luce countiesJul 16, 2026

Hemingway Made the U.P.’s Two-Hearted River Famous. He Was Actually Fishing a Different River.

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Downtown Calumet, Michigan on Fifth Street

History & CultureCalumet, Houghton CountyJul 15, 2026

How Big Annie Became the Flag-Carrying Face of Calumet’s 1913 Copper Strike

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History & CultureKeweenaw PeninsulaJul 10, 2026

People Were Mining the U.P.’s Copper 7,000 Years Ago, and the 1840s Prospectors Found Their Pits

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Men in a warehouse stacked with liquor during Prohibition

History & CultureCopper Harbor, Keweenaw CountyJul 10, 2026

A Whiskey Smuggler Got Caught in the U.P. After the Crew Drank Too Much of Their Own Cargo

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A traditional wooden Finnish sauna building

History & CultureCopper CountryJul 10, 2026

In the U.P., Finnish Families Built the Sauna Before They Built the House

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Copper Country miners underground at the Tamarack Mine in Michigan

History & CultureCopper CountryJul 9, 2026

Miners in the U.P. Left Part of Their Lunch Underground for the Tommyknockers

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