Keweenaw
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He Started the U.P.’s Copper Rush. Then He Warned Everyone to Stay Away.
The U.P.’s entire copper boom traces back to one man and one…
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There’s a Ski Hill on the Tip of the U.P. So Extreme It Has No Beginner Runs
Mount Bohemia on the tip of the Keweenaw is the Midwest’s most…
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How Keweenaw Copper Built the U.P.—and Wired a Growing America
Before the California Gold Rush became legend, another American mineral rush was…
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In This Part of the U.P., They Measure Snow in Feet, and Some Winters in Yards
Some winters the snow up here piles past twenty feet. The locals…
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Big Louie Moilanen Was Nearly 8 Feet Tall and Still Holds Michigan’s Tallest-Man Record
When Big Louie Moilanen walked into a room in the Copper Country,…
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Brockway Mountain Drive May Be the Most Beautiful View in the Entire U.P.
From the top of Brockway Mountain, Lake Superior spreads out in front…
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The 1913 Italian Hall Disaster Is the Copper Country’s Darkest Day, and Calumet Still Remembers
On Christmas Eve more than a century ago, a false cry of…
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Before the Gold Rush, There Was a Copper Rush, and It Happened Right Here in the U.P.
Years before the forty-niners headed west, a rush for copper built the…
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This Wild U.P. Berry Is Too Delicate to Ship, So You’ll Only Find Its Jam Up Here
Meet the thimbleberry, a wild Keweenaw treasure and just about the last…
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Real Yoopers Built the Sauna Before the House, and They Don’t Say It ‘SAW-na’ Either
In the U.P., the sauna isn’t a spa day. It’s a sacred…
